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Why should my business consider private and direct connections to Tencent Cloud?

Tencent Cloud is among a number of Chinese tech giants making an impact in the enterprise cloud sector. In this blog, we look at how businesses can maximise the potential of their Tencent Cloud instance using direct connections through Console Connect.

What Is Amazon ElastiCache? Everything You Should Know

Rolled out in 2011, AWS ElastiCache has grown to become one of the most prominent Amazon services among developers. So much so that in the 2020 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, one of its fully-managed engines was voted by developers as the most loved database. On the flip side, however, AWS ElastiCache happens to be infamous for its high costs. Although it offers a flexible pricing system that charges you only for what you use, the usage bill can get pretty high for some users.

The World Needs More Phrases Ending In "Ops"

A lot of people think that using the cloud makes you elastic, but cloud really only gives you the potential to be elastic. If your apps aren’t elastic, and your cloud usage doesn’t flex up and down based on activity levels, then it’s really just expensive. The same is true of containers—they don’t magically make all of your hosting problems go away, and while they have the potential to make you more agile and efficient, it isn’t that simple.

Microsoft Azure & xMatters Flow Designer Integration - Product Integrations Made Easy

Join Christine Astle, Product Manager at xMatters, as she discusses how easy it can be to integrate Microsoft Azure and xMatters Flow Designer. With a little more than a few clicks, Azure can be integrated into any workflow you build to simplify processes.

The Ultimate Guide to Monitoring Serverless Applications

Serverless applications, more often than not, have logic distributed over multiple functions and services, which with growth and agents and wrappers attached, can get more complex and costly. This is where Serverless monitoring comes in to help. But what is Serverless monitoring? Serverless monitoring allows developers to gain important insight on what happens during each execution and event, errors become more easily visible, and measuring resource consumption for each invocation is possible.

Updates to ServiceDesk Plus Cloud for Microsoft Teams: Enhanced chatbot, ESM, and UI

2020 has seen a surge in the number of organizations embracing remote work to adapt to the new normal, leading to increased reliance on digital collaborative workspaces like Microsoft Teams. As organizations migrate critical business processes to such digital workspaces, IT service management teams need to leverage these platforms as channels for delivering IT and enterprise support.

5 Reasons To Use DynamoDB In Serverless Applications

In this webinar, AWS Data Hero Alex Debrie and Uri Parush System Architect at Lumigo will introduce DynamoDB by understanding its unique properties and why it's so popular in serverless applications. They will walk through some tips for using DynamoDB correctly, including identifying and fixing common issues using Lumigo.

Debugging with Dashbird: AWS Lambda Process Exited Before Completing Request

Another generic error message from our favorite FaaS provider AWS Lambda. And again, there are multiple reasons why this issue could arise. Let’s first look at the basics of AWS Lambda to get a better intuition for when things go wrong later. Lambda is an asynchronous event-based service at heart.