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Application Observability on RKE2 With SUSE Rancher and StackState

Please join Jeroen van Erp, StackState's Product Manager while he shows you how you can achieve full observability of your SUSE Rancher managed clusters. He'll demonstrate StackState's Kubernetes troubleshooting capabilities for development teams. You can easily manage your Rancher clusters and gain visibility into all your Kubernetes resources by installing the StackState agent from the SUSE Rancher marketplace. Jeroen will walk you through the service overview, service dependency map and powerful troubleshooting features that StackState offers.

Building a Culture of Reliability: Why SREs Can't Do It Alone

Join Gremlin CTO and Founder Kolton Andrus to hear practical strategies for building a collaborative culture of reliability. High-velocity DevOps orgs and complex cloud-native architectures have made reliability harder than ever. Organizations are turning to SREs to make sure systems are reliable, but with so many stakeholders and competing priorities, many companies are still struggling to get ahead of the outages and incidents—SREs simply can't do it all by themselves.

Deploy a Dockerized Spring Boot app to Azure App Service

Incompatible hardware is a common cause of application failures for distributed teams. Most teams depend on containerization tools like Docker to prevent these failures. But is there any way to automate the deployment of Docker images more efficiently and intuitively? In this article, I will show you how simple it is to do this by combining CircleCI and Microsoft Azure to build a CI/CD pipeline for a Dockerized Spring Boot project.

AWS vs Azure: Choosing the Best Cloud Provider for Your Needs

AWS and Azure are two big names in the cloud world. If you have already invested in Microsoft technologies, you might prefer Azure over AWS. However, it is not as simple as that. Many factors are involved in this decision, including the type of service, pricing model, geographical area, your existing technology, etc. In this article, we will compare all the major cloud service categories of AWS and Azure and will compare both companies in detail.

Top 10 Container Monitoring Tools

Containerization has significantly improved the way we deploy and manage applications over the past years. It has enabled agility, scalability, and efficiency in modern software development. However, the dynamic nature of containers requires robust monitoring solutions to ensure optimal performance and reliability. In this article, we will discuss the top 10 container monitoring tools that are essential for anyone navigating the containerized landscape.

Netdata Best Practices: Optimizing Your Monitoring Setup

Effective system monitoring is non-negotiable in today's complex IT environments. Netdata offers real-time performance and health monitoring with precision and granularity. But the key to harnessing its full potential lies in the optimization of your setup. Let’s ensure you are not just collecting data, but doing it in the most optimal way while gaining actionable insights from it. The starting point for optimization is a robust setup.

I've Made a Huge Mistake: Implementing Agile on Infrastructure Teams

Bad planning methods can damage team morale and prevent teams from improving the systems they maintain. In this talk, Sam Handler from Shopify explains how his attempts to fix poor infrastructure planning processes through Agile methods failed. Drawing from this experience, he offers several principles that can help infrastructure teams improve the way they work.