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Serverless for Enterprises: Scale big or go home

We discuss quite a bit about going serverless for SMEs and startups, however it’s often those with an already huge infrastructure, such as enterprises, that can find the move and change daunting. We see many companies from the likes of Coca-Cola to Netflix managing it but what does it look like in action? In this article, we share some best practices and insights on the serverless designs that can scale massively and represent enterprise models.

An IT Exec Charts a New Path Amid New Realities

If you’re the chief IT executive of a Fortune 500 company right now, all eyes are on you. You need to be the hero, the light in the gloom, the one to deliver your company from the brink of economic disaster in a year like no other. If you’re Rob Carter, Executive VP of Information Services at FedEx, you’ve been working toward this moment for years. Carter was the keynote speaker at the Enterprise IT Virtual Event on July 23, hosted by Data Center Knowledge.

An easy button for AWS Spot Management? A conversation with Taloflow's new partner, Xosphere

At Taloflow, we’re proud to introduce to you our newest partner, Xosphere. The Xosphere™ Instance Orchestrator™ intelligently manages AWS Spot instances to give your applications 100% reliability at a fraction of the EC2 cost. Customers of Taloflow can use Xosphere in conjunction with Taloflow’s services to seamlessly identify candidates for Spot Management and monitor improvements in EC2 efficiency.

Using Cloud Logging on GKE

Looking to debug and troubleshoot your workloads that are on Google Kubernetes Engine? In this episode of Stack Doctor, Yuri Grinshteyn shows you how Cloud Logging ingests your GKE workloads, and what tools allow you greater observability over log data. Watch to learn how you can efficiently retrieve, view, and analyze logs from your queries with Cloud Logging!

Cloud logging

There’s no tool that can replace the best practices for DevOps or SRE, but there is a tool that can allow you greater observability over your logs in a distributed infrastructure involving multiple products. In this episode of Google Cloud Platform Essentials, we show you how logs are aggregated for all Google Cloud products, how to utilize them, and how to use them for tracking application errors.

Complete Guide to Lambda Triggers and Design Patterns (Part 2)

This is part of a series of articles discussing strategies to implement serverless architectural design patterns. We continue to follow this literature review. Although we use AWS serverless services to illustrate concepts, they can be applied in different cloud providers. In the previous article (Part 1) we covered the Aggregator and Data Lake patterns. In today’s article, we’ll continue in the Orchestration & Aggregation category covering the Fan-in/Fan-out and Queue-based load leveling.

Create a Cloud Migration Strategy with IT Infrastructure Monitoring

The rapid pivot towards a remote workforce is forcing organizations to adopt a cloud-first approach faster than ever. We recently surveyed 500 IT decision-makers around the globe to ascertain their views on IT automation, cloud migration, and business continuity in the face of unexpected crises. The survey found that 87% of IT professionals agree that the current COVID-19 pandemic will cause organizations to accelerate their migration to the cloud.