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Why Network Slicing is the Holy Grail for Telco's in the 5G Era

Legacy generations of networks have predominately provided services with best-effort delivery. While this has worked for voice, text and best- effort broadband services, end users are hampered with buffering, delays, and drops as the demand for feature-rich services continues to grow.

Introducing Cycle.io

Built for businesses of all sizes, the Cycle Platform becomes the bridge between your infrastructure and your software. With its software as a service (SaaS) approach to infrastructure management, any servers deployed via Cycle will automatically receive all platform updates. Empower your developers to do what they do best, and leaving the rest to Cycle. Connect with us: Website: cycle.io Slack: cycle.slack.io Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/cycle-platform/ Twitter: twitter.com/cycleplatform Facebook: facebook.com/CyclePlatform

Managing Sensu Go 6 using Ansible

Earlier this year, we shared the certified Ansible Collection for Sensu Go, which makes it easy to automate your monitoring and achieve real-time visibility into auto-scaling infrastructure. Now that Sensu Go 6 has been released, we’ll share the latest updates on the Collection, including the management aspects of Sensu Go 6, with a focus on the structure of Ansible playbooks in the Sensu Go 6 world.

Set up Let's Encrypt TLS Encryption using the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller

When it comes to TLS in Kubernetes, the first thing to appreciate when you use the HAProxy Ingress Controller is that all traffic for all services traveling to your Kubernetes cluster passes through HAProxy. Requests are then routed towards the appropriate backend services depending on metadata in the request, such as the Host header. So, by enabling TLS in your ingress controller, you’re adding secure communication to all of your services at once. HAProxy is known for its advanced support of the important performance-oriented features available in TLS.

Serve Dynamic Custom Error Pages with HAProxy

Set up custom error pages in HAProxy to ensure consistent, branded messaging that supports any backend web stack. The memory is probably still fresh: You’re shopping online at your favorite website, looking for something specific, you’ve got it narrowed down to two or maybe three products, you make the final decision, click to checkout and then— Internal Server Error. A cryptic error has replaced the page you were expecting. More than surprised, you feel knocked off balance.

Amazon S3 Folders Demystified

Amazon S3 is a highly-scalable object storage system. Amazon S3 can contain any number of objects (files), and those objects can be organized into “folders”. However, to S3, folders don’t really exist. huh? That’s right. “Folders” are a human concept, applied to S3 keys for organizational purposes. But they’re nothing special to S3 itself. Before we begin, forget everything you know about the S3 Management Console.