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How To Monitor Cisco Catalyst Metrics with Grafana

In today's interconnected world, the reliability of network infrastructure, especially Cisco Catalyst switches, plays a key role for businesses. To ensure these critical components perform optimally, it's vital to monitor their metrics effectively. This article will show you how to effortlessly monitor Cisco Catalyst metrics with Grafana, a top-tier monitoring and visualization platform.

Introducing Workflows: Enhancing Automation in Incident Response

At Squadcast, we advocate for the principles of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), which emphasize the critical importance of automating routine tasks to boost efficiency in Incident Management. We're aiding organizations in implementing these principles with one of our newest features: 'Workflows'. Workflows has been designed to automate manual facets of your Incident lifecycle, all while ensuring human-in-the-loop execution for critical decisions.

What's new and upcoming in Azure Event Grid - George Guirguis

This session by George Guirguis, Product Manager from Microsoft, unveils the latest and upcoming features of Azure Event Grid. Gain insights into HTTP event push and pull delivery mechanisms and discover how they enhance real-time event processing and retrieval. George also introduces MQTT support, expanding Event Grid's capabilities for IoT scenarios.

The Role of Containers and Kubernetes in DevOps Transformation

Containers and Kubernetes has become the cornerstone of modern DevOps practices. As organizations strive for agility, scalability, and seamless collaboration between development and operations teams, the adoption of Containers and Kubernetes has emerged as a transformative force. This blog explores the pivotal role these technologies play in the DevOps journey, unlocking new possibilities and efficiencies for software delivery.

A Beginner-Friendly Guide To Azure Cloud Management

As a provider of over 200 cloud products and services, Microsoft Azure provides most of the capabilities you need to manage your cloud workloads. While this breadth of services can be beneficial, it can also create complexity issues, such as reducing cloud cost visibility and increasing security blind spots. Proper Azure cloud management can change this. In this snackable guide, we’ll share what Azure cloud management is, the key tools you need to manage your Azure environment, and more.

Bringing Product Thinking to Your Platform by Abby Bangser - Navigate Europe 23

Watch Abby Bangser's talk at Navigate Europe 23, where she shares her expertise in platform engineering. Abby redefines platform engineering as a product, exploring innovative team structures, the importance of understanding user needs, and the crucial role of product management in platform teams.

How to unlock your leadership potential on a cloud migration project: A guide for the DBA, part 2

In this two-part Q&A series, we’re looking at how to seize the full potential of cloud migrations to advance your career. In part one, we talked with four industry experts about the skills DBAs can gain, the unique career opportunities that come up, and the best way to get involved in a cloud project. Chris Yates from Republic Bank, Kendra Little from Dutchie, and Matt Gordon and Joshua Higginbotham from Centric Consulting shared their insights and provided some really valuable advice.