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Amazon makes reliability a priority-do you?

Are you making really reliability a priority? Or are you just giving it lip service? "At Amazon, I was part of the retail website. Outages were lost money, lost money was bad. So Amazon cared deeply about this. That was part of it. The other part was it was part of the engineering culture. When I arrived, one of the things I was told was, we expect you to write high quality, performant, efficient, available code. It's just everybody.

Most Popular Data Center Environmental Sensors

Data center environmental sensors helps data center managers maintain uptime, increase energy efficiency, and remotely manage their data centers. From temperature and humidity to other parameters like airflow, these sensors can be paired with modern data center management software to provide real-time insights and alerts, enabling proactive management and rapid response to potential issues. There are many types of sensors and vendors on the market.

Introducing... Progress WhatsUp Gold Free Edition

At Progress, we understand the challenges faced by IT teams in maintaining operational networks. Everything we do is to best serve those tasked with maintaining more seamless operations for an entire environment including network systems, servers, applications and services. We want to confirm that the greenest, first-day sysadmin can sit down in front of a product like Progress WhatsUp Gold and figure out how to use it in minutes.

Growing pains? Developing new infrastructure strategies as businesses grow

‘On-premise versus cloud’ remains the heavyweight division of digital infrastructure rivalries. And depending on where you look, both sides claim victory. Cloud is often perceived as a runaway success. As part of report into the domestic cloud services market, UK regulator Ofcom noted that the UK cloud infrastructure market is growing, with overall revenues increasing at a rate of 35% to 40% annually.1.

Cost Management Best Practices for Azure Integration Solutions

In this episode of "FinOps on Azure" Sandro, an enterprise Integration expert, shares his insights on optimizing costs for building robust Integration solutions on Microsoft Azure. Sandro emphasizes the importance of establishing a solid foundation by defining clear naming conventions, environment policies, and access controls to manage costs to avoid potential issues.

Introducing a Brand New Microsoft Teams Integration

We’ve gotten clear feedback from our customers that we’ve needed a strong Microsoft Teams integration. Responders want a full suite of incident management functionality, no matter what chat application their organization uses. We heard you. That’s why we’re proud to announce a brand new MS Teams integration with fully robust incident management lifecycle capabilities.

How to Monitor Host Metrics with OpenTelemetry

Today's environments often present the challenge of collecting data from various sources, such as multi-cloud, hybrid on-premises/cloud, or both. Each cloud provider has its own tools that send data to their respective telemetry platforms. OpenTelemetry can monitor cloud VMs, on-premises VMs, and bare metal systems and send all data to a unified monitoring platform. This applies across multiple operating systems and vendors.

The Engineer's Roadmap to Building Resilient Systems in High Growth Environments

In the past, software development was all about hitting deadlines and budgets. But times have changed. Today, users expect flawless, 24/7 experiences that drive business value. That's why building reliable and resilient systems is no longer a luxury - it's a necessity.