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At times, directing projects in multiple locales from a desktop or laptop feels like conducting an orchestra in the dark. Coordinating with diverse, remote teams of developers producing software on an agile schedule of continual updates and releases can be especially nerve-wracking. At Sleuth, we’re crushing the remote-work challenge because, in 20 years of managing from afar, we’ve learned a thing or two — actually three — about how to do it right.

Developers at Airbnb, BBC, Netflix, and Nike all share something in common: They’re using serverless computing to ship new products and features faster than ever. And they represent a growing trend. As businesses compete to quickly deliver customer value, a whopping 60% of enterprises have already adopted, or are planning to use, serverless architectures.

HashiCorp’s Terraform has emerged as a powerful tool for managing infrastructure as code. Teams can fully describe an application’s infrastructure needs such as physical machines, VMs, containers and more using configuration files. This allows the application infrastructure to be version controlled, reducing human errors during deployments.

StatsD is among the most popular monitoring solutions used to instrument code with the help of custom metrics. It has become very popular over the course of the last few years and emerged as the industry standard for open source inside-the-app monitoring. It has a host of advantageous features that makes it perfect for application performance measurements.

Azure storage has provided companies with a way to store almost limitless amount of data. But just like kids in a candy store this can get out of hand, and expensive. Being able to store as much data as you want is great, however it is something that can grow to a point where you are spending more on storage than you actually need.

The age of rendering most of a web page’s contents on the server and then delivering it as a colossal HTML file is fading into the past. Modern web frameworks like Angular, React, and Vue push towards creating components instead—individual elements on the page that fetch their data in the background and poll for asynchronous updates—which can be reused across your site.

In recent times, Prometheus has become the standard for application monitoring in the tech space. But what exactly is Prometheus? Over the course of this article, we’ll touch on various subtopics to help answer this question, ranging from where it all started, to its architecture and how exactly it does monitoring. We'll address the various possible integrations/tools that can be used alongside Prometheus, and why Prometheus is a great tool for monitoring these platforms and applications.

In this article, you’ll learn the basics of MongoDB. We’ll cover its performance metrics, built-in monitoring commands, utilities and tools, and common monitoring strategies. You will also be introduced to a monitoring tool called MetricFire and provided with some examples of how it can be used in production systems together with setup instructions.