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A Greater Gatsby: Modern, Static-Site Generation

Gatsby is currently generating a ton of buzz as the new hot thing for generating static sites. This has lead to a number of frequent questions like: A static…what now? How is GraphQL involved? Do I need to set up a GraphQL server? What if I’m not a great React developer, really more of a bad React developer?

Introduction to the Integration Module for Data Manipulation

The Kelverion Integration Module for Data Manipulation has been designed to enable users to easily manipulate input data or compose output data to / from Azure Published Data. This Integration Module provides the perfect link for those that are currently using our Orchestrator Data Manipulation Integration Pack as they convert their automation from on-premise to a cloud based solution.

How to Identify Orphaned EBS Snapshots to Optimize AWS Costs

So a while back I got an email from our finance team. I was tasked to assist with tagging resources in our AWS infrastructure and investigate which items are contributing to certain costs. I don’t know about other engineers, but these kinds of tasks are on the same realm of fun as … wiping bird poop off your windshield at a gas station. So I did the sanest thing I could think of.

Introducing the OpsRamp Winter Release, January 2019

OpsRamp helps digital operations teams drive resilient and responsive IT services by discovering topological relationships between resources at multiple levels in the increasingly hybrid and multi-cloud IT stack. In this webinar you’ll get an overview of Winter Release, including demonstrations of features to drive greater efficiency within modern IT operational environments.

Coding with Confidence - CloudBees + Honeycomb

DevOps, Observability, Continuous Delivery, Test in Production, Chaos Engineering, and Software Ownership are all major themes in software development today, but why? In an ideal world, we get everything right the first time, nothing breaks, no one DDOS’ us, and the weather report is “Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs.” Reality of course is different – and better, to be honest.

Debugging serverless applications with Dashbird

With AWS Lambda, we get scalability and resilience out-of-the-box. What’s more, AWS also provides built-in monitoring, logging and tracing support through CloudWatch and X-Ray. These built-in tools provide a good starting point but many developers eventually outgrow them as their serverless application becomes more complex. In this post, let’s take a serverless application and see how Dashbird can help you debug a serverless application.