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Serverless Cost Optimization: 4 Ways To Lower Your Costs

Serverless services save time. When you switch to serverless architecture, you offload redundant cloud management activities to your cloud provider and gain more time to focus on the most important parts of your business — development and innovation. Even better, you only pay for what you use, so you don’t have to worry about committing to reserved instances or committing to a savings plan. But there’s a catch.

Spark Performance Management Optimization Best Practices | Pepperdata

Gain the knowledge of Spark veteran Alex Pierce on how to manage the challenges of maintaining the performance and usability of your Spark jobs. Apache Spark provides sophisticated ways for enterprises to leverage big data compared to Hadoop. However, the increasing amount of data being analyzed and processed through the framework is massive and continues to push the boundaries of the engine.

How to Optimize Spark Enterprise Application Performance | Pepperdata

Does your big data analytics platform provide you with the Spark recommendations you need to optimize your application performance and improve your own skillset? Explore how you can use Spark recommendations to untangle the complexity of your Spark applications, reduce waste and cost, and enhance your own knowledge of Spark best practices. Topics include: Join Product Manager Heidi Carson and Field Engineer Alex Pierce from Pepperdata to gain real-world experience with a variety of Spark recommendations, and participate in the Q and A that follows.

How to Maximize the Value Of Your Big Data Analytics Stack Investment

Big data analytics performance management is a competitive differentiator and a priority for data-driven companies. However, optimizing IT costs while guaranteeing performance and reliability in distributed systems is difficult. The complexity of distributed systems makes it critically important to have unified visibility into the entire stack. This webinar discusses how to maximize the business value of your big data analytics stack investment and achieve ROI while reducing expenses. Learn how to.

How DevOps Can Reduce the Runaway Waste and Cost of Autoscaling

Autoscaling is the process of automatically increasing or decreasing the computational resources delivered to a cloud workload based on need. This typically means adding or reducing active servers (instances) that are leveraged against your workload within an infrastructure.

Learn How to Simplify Kubernetes Performance Management | Pepperdata

Complex applications running on Kubernetes scale super fast, but this can create visibility gaps that can make detecting and troubleshooting Kubernetes issues as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack. Although Docker and Kubernetes are now becoming standard components when building and orchestrating applications, you’re still responsible for managing the performance of applications built atop this new stack.

Big Data Performance Management Solution Top Considerations

The growing adoption of Hadoop and Spark has increased demand for Big Data and Performance Management solutions that operate at scale. However, enterprise organizations quickly realize that scaling from pilot projects to large-scale production clusters involves a steep learning curve. Despite progress, DevOps teams still struggle with multi-tenancy, cluster performance, and workflow monitoring. This webinar discusses the top considerations when choosing a big data performance management solution.

The 3 Best Ways To Talk To Your C-Suite About Cloud Costs

For any company working in the cloud or using managed cloud services to create products, cloud costs represent a significant expense. If you lead an engineering team, you may have to defend your bill to your CEO or CFO. But here’s the challenge: Cloud costs can be difficult to communicate because engineers and executives often think about cost from different perspectives. As an engineer, you may think of costs in terms of AWS services, such as EC2 instances, storage, etc.

What Is AWS Anomaly Detection? (And Is There A Better Option?)

To explain how cost anomaly detection works in AWS, let’s first look at an analogy. Imagine you strategically propagate, cultivate, harvest, and replenish trees for a thriving forest products company. In keeping with your eco-friendly policy, you only harvest the trees with straight and tall trunks. You leave irregularly shaped trees alone. Your company doesn’t harvest trees you won't use.

10 CTO Tools Every Tech Leader Should Be Using

Managing technology isn't your only responsibility as a CTO. You could be the CIO, Digital Enabler, Data Officer, and Engineering Leader all rolled up into one, whether you work at a startup, scaleup, or enterprise. Your role as a C-suite executive for engineering requires you to research and implement the newest, most efficient technologies. As CTO, you’re responsible for: The list goes on and on. That's why you, of all people, need the right tools to manage your vital role in the digital world.