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New feature announcement: Introducing Automated Backups

Nov 9, 2022 By Syed Raza In Upsun

You asked and we delivered! The days of configuring cron jobs to take backups for each of your environments are over. Soon, for every grid project, you will have your backups automated according to the plan of your choice. Meaning you can focus on deploying today without worrying about whether you can roll back to yesterday - this new feature has you covered. We thought we’d give you the heads up so you can get in there early and choose your desired backups plan.

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Mobile Cloud Computing: Overview, Challenges and Scope

Nov 9, 2022 By Akriti Galav In Stackify

The process of delivering mobile apps utilizing cloud technology is known as mobile cloud computing (MCC). Complex mobile apps today carry out activities including authentication, location-aware features and providing users with customized communication and content. As long as your device is online, mobile cloud computing enables you to store and access data anywhere. This makes it possible for data to be sent without difficulty anytime required.

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3 best practices to reduce application downtime with Google Cloud's API monitoring tools

Nov 8, 2022 By Varun Krovvidi In Google Operations

Maintain high uptime and performance for your APIs without any overheads using Google Cloud’s API monitoring tools.

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AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud: The Big Three Compared

Nov 8, 2022 By Solutions Team In Megaport

These three top cloud providers are used daily by millions of users across the world – but what sets them apart? We take a magnifying glass to the features that matter.

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Changing Perspectives: A Deep Dive into the Security Posture of 600+ Real-World AWS Environments

Nov 8, 2022 By Datadog In Datadog

Earlier this year, Datadog released the “State of AWS Security” study, which examined real-world data from more than 600 organizations and AWS accounts to understand the security posture of global AWS users who also leverage the Datadog Cloud Security Platform. Join Datadog’s Christophe Tafani-Dereeper and Andrew Krug as they explore some important insights from this study, such as the top ways organizations are breached on AWS and how tooling like Datadog Cloud Security Posture Management can help.

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What Is Blockchain? How Blockchain Technology Works to Make the Internet Safer

Nov 8, 2022 By Internxt Contributor In Internxt

You may have heard the word “blockchain” floating around quite a lot recently. However, you may be unsure of what it actually means. However, with companies expected to spend $20 billion per annum on blockchain technical services by the end of 2024, it’s time we all got a bit more familiar with it. Below, we will explain what blockchain is and the technology behind it so you can get a better understanding.

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The Quest For Sunken Treasure: Top-Down Vs. Bottom-Up Cloud Cost Allocation

Nov 8, 2022 By Kevin Mueller In CloudZero

High-quality cloud cost allocation has become an existential issue for businesses. In order to get as much out of their (mounting) cloud investments as possible, business leaders need to know how much they’re spending in the cloud, what/who they’re spending it on, and whether there’s a good reason for it. In its ideal form, cost allocation answers all these questions.

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Polling asynchronous APIs with Azure Durable Functions

Nov 8, 2022 By Thomas Ardal In elmah.io

I have been building a feature on elmah.io lately that picks up validation results from an external API. Before serverless was a thing, I would probably have done this using a scheduled task or Windows Service using Hangfire or similar. But after having migrated everything to serverless Azure Functions, I wanted a good solution running similarly. Azure Durable Functions turned out as the perfect companion and in this post, I'll show you a possible way to implement polling of an asynchronous API.

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Create AWS Cloudwatch metric alerts with Lumigo

Nov 8, 2022 By Greg Bulmash In Lumigo

Amazon CloudWatch monitors metrics of your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources in real time and can trigger alarms when a metric goes above or below certain thresholds. Typically, Amazon CloudWatch sends out alarms by posting a message to an SNS (Amazon Simple Notification Service) topic, which distributes the message via several mediums, including email, SMS, and Lambda functions. Setting a CloudWatch alarm can be complex.

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The Unit Economics Journey: Cost Considerations At Each Venture Stage

Nov 7, 2022 By Erik Peterson In CloudZero

Just as there are a handful of stages to describe the financial journey from startup to established company — pre-seed and seed funding, followed by series A, B, and C funding — there are also stages to the process of achieving a healthy understanding of your costs.

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