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Introduction to Cloud Native Application Architecture

Today, it is crucial that an organization’s application’s scalability matches its growth tempo. If you want your client’s app to be robust and easy to scale, you have to make the right architectural decisions. Cloud native applications are proven more efficient than their traditional counterparts and much easier to scale due to containerization and running in the cloud.

Schneider Electric consolidates monitoring tools by 83% with LogicMonitor

Schneider Electric consolidated its monitoring tools by 83% after onboarding LogicMonitor's observability platform. Schneider Electric, one of the most sustainable companies on the planet, is always striving to make energy better. This is done with the help of unified observability.
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What are Runbooks? And why are they needed?

Imagine being an Ops engineer in a team just struck by tragedy. Alarms start ringing, and incident response is in full force. It may sound like the situation is in control. WRONG! There's panic everywhere. The on-call team is scrambling for the heavenly door to redemption. But, the only thing that doesn't stop - Stakeholder Inquiries. This situation is bad. But it could be worse. Now imagine being a less-experienced Ops engineer in a relatively small on-call team struck by tragedy. If you don't have sufficient guidance, let alone moral support- you're toast.

Deploying a dockerized .NET Core app to an Azure container instance

In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a custom ASP.NET Core container with Docker and host the container image on Azure Container Registry, a platform owned by Microsoft that allows you to build, store, and manage container images in a private registry. At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to apply the knowledge gained here to link your container image on the Microsoft Azure registry with a web app service and launch your application.

Performing Postmortems & Postmortem Templates at Squadcast | SRE Best practices | Squadcast

Postmortems are a way to summarize the resolution for an incident once it is resolved. It is also a way for you to create a knowledge-base of failures and fixes that can be shared across your team to help build a culture of shared learning and learning from failures.

Open-source storage for beginners with Ceph

Modern organisations have become reliant on their IT capabilities, and at the heart of that infrastructure is a growing need to store data. Be it transactional databases, file shares, or burgeoning data lakes for business analytics. Traditionally, storage needs have been catered to by big iron hardware vendors, but over the last decade, more and more organisations have turned to open-source solutions such as Ceph running on commodity hardware.

Using StatusPage at squadcast | SRE Best practices | Squadcast

Let your customers know how your Services are doing, without them having to ask you about it. One of the core principles of SRE is Transparency and Status Pages help you communicate the status of your Services to your customers at all times, as opposed to you getting to know the status of your Services through support tickets logged by your customers.