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You may have outgrown Amazon CloudWatch. Perhaps you want something more robust than CloudWatch, which provides full-stack observability. Below, we’ll share a list of the proven, top CloudWath alternatives that can meet all your needs in one place.

In today’s quickly changing modern workplace, digital collaboration tools are incredibly important. Microsoft Teams, a cornerstone of Microsoft 365, has become a pivotal platform for communication and collaboration, especially in the age of remote work. However, as IT managers navigate the complex terrain of ensuring seamless connectivity and productivity, a hidden challenge often lurks beneath the surface – the substantial challenge of Microsoft Teams performance.

Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that involves writing tests for your code before you write the code. This approach has transformed the development methodology around testing. While the traditional waterfall model of software development was linear, with testing occurring near the end of one long timeline, TDD makes testing an ongoing, iterative process.

Monitoring your PostgreSQL instance is essential for maintaining performance, reliability, security, and compliance. It allows you to stay ahead of potential issues, optimize resource utilization, and ensure a smooth and efficient operation of your database system. Database monitoring helps you can pinpoint problematic queries, analyze execution plans, and make necessary adjustments to improve overall application responsiveness.

As data volumes continue to grow and observability plays an ever-greater role in ensuring optimal website and application performance, responsibility for end-user experience is shifting left. This can create a messy situation with hundreds of R&D members from back-end engineers, front-end teams as well as DevOps and SREs, all shipping data and creating their own dashboards and alerts.

The DevOps Change Management Content Hub is a set of resources for modern software teams who struggle to align their DevOps automation with their change management requirements. In our experience, cloud native teams with lots of automation struggle when they run into a compliance event like an audit, or need to achieve a security standard like SOC2 or ISO27001. How do you comply without adopting old fashioned change management practices and screwing up your DevOps?

A new year has started and some of the major IaaS providers are making major changes early on. AWS and GCP have both announced major changes that might be a signal for what's to come this year.

The Elastic APM K8s Attacher lets the Elastic APM agent auto-attach to the application in your pods by adding just one annotation to your deployment The Elastic® APM K8s Attacher allows auto-installation of Elastic APM application agents (e.g., the Elastic APM Java agent) into applications running in your Kubernetes clusters. The mechanism uses a mutating webhook, which is a standard Kubernetes component, but you don’t need to know all the details to use the Attacher.

Your networks are the highways that enable data transfers and cloud-based collaboration. Like highways connect people to physical locations, networks connect people to applications and databases. As you would look up the fastest route between two physical locations, your workforce members need the fastest connectivity between two digital locations. Network load balancers enable you to prevent and identify digital “traffic jams” by redistributing incoming network requests across your servers.