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Best Practices Guide for Kubernetes Labels and Annotations

Kubernetes is the de facto container-management technology in the cloud world due to its scalability and reliability. It also provides a very flexible and developer-friendly API, which is the foundation of its control plane. The effectiveness of the Kubernetes API comes from how it manages the Kubernetes resources via metadata: labels and annotations. Metadata is essential for grouping resources, redirecting requests and managing deployments.

Resolve AWS Lambda function failures faster by monitoring invocation payloads

In a serverless application, AWS Lambda functions are typically invoked by JSON-formatted events from other AWS services—like API Gateway, S3, and DynamoDB—and respond with JSON-formatted payloads. Having visibility into these function request and response payloads can provide context around your function invocations and help you uncover the root causes of Lambda function failures.

10 Best Linux Monitoring Tools and Software to Improve Server Performance [2021...

Linux is one of the most popular operating systems today, powering a large portion of the Internet. According to W3Techs, almost half of today’s top-ranked 1 million websites currently run on Linux systems. So, if you want your site—and the application(s) running on it—to be high-performing with lots of uptime, you need to ensure the availability and reliability of your Linux-based servers.

What SREs Can Learn from Facebook's Largest Outage

Facebook’s October 2021 outage was the type of event that gives SREs nightmares: A series of critical business apps crashed in minutes and remained unavailable for hours, disrupting more than 3.5 billion users around the world and costing about 60 million dollars. As incidents go, this was a pretty big one.

What Is Kubernetes Pod Disruption?

Kubernetes pods are the smallest deployable units in the Kubernetes platform. Each pod signals a single running process within the system and functions from a node or worker machine within Kubernetes, which may take on a virtual or physical form. Occasionally, Kubernetes pod disruptions may occur within a system, either from voluntary or involuntary causes.

An intro to Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the practice of recording the desired state of your infrastructure using a declarative language. In this article, I’m going to assume that your team is starting from scratch. Maybe some of your build process has been scripted, and maybe there is some manual testing and quality assurance work happening. Many readers will find that they are midway through the IaC adoption journey I’ll describe, or that they have missed some steps.

The Role of Fintech In The Financial Industry

With the rise and advancement of technology and artificial intelligence, there is no question that new rationalists are joining this group to enforce their ideas. However, most Rationalists and highly successful people do not hold back anything, and maybe this is because the technological and financial industry embraces disruptors of the norm. One rationalist concept adopted by the technology and financial sector is Fintech.