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Top metrics to consider while monitoring DynamoDB performance

NoSQL databases have always been regarded as a notch above SQL databases. The primary reason for the soaring popularity of NoSQL databases is their dynamic and cloud-friendly approach to seamlessly processing data across a large amount of commodity servers. With high scalability, availability, and reliability, AWS’s DynamoDB is a great example of a fully-managed NoSQL database.

Final Black Friday & Cyber Monday Ecommerce Website Prep

Black Friday sales are not just for brick-and-mortar retailers anymore. In 2017, retail store visitors on the biggest shopping day of the year dropped four percent. Meanwhile, mobile and online Black Friday sales rose 17 percent last year, with customers spending almost $8 billion. The entire weekend (Black Friday through Cyber Monday) brought in almost $20 billion in online sales.

Security and Monitoring with Istio - Take5

Kubernetes can be a great orchestration platform for your microservices but these services can grow complex and difficult to manage. Enter Istio, an integrated way to create a network of your services and manage load balancing, authentication, and more! Join us as we walk you through Istio and several ways it can help you wrangle your applications.

10 Things You Should Avoid in B2B Marketing

As you know, B2B marketing refers to the techniques and practices used by companies to sell their product or services to other organizations and businesses rather than individuals. The most essential thing in B2B marketing is to reach out to the right customers and influence them to purchase. However, in achieving this, there are some pitfalls you would want to avoid.

Setting Up Application Performance Monitoring with the ELK Stack and Logz.io

Application Performance Monitoring, aka APM, is one of the most common methods used by engineers today to measure the availability, response times and behavior of applications and services. There are a variety of APM solutions in the market but if you’re familiar with the ELK Stack or are a Logz.io user, this article describes using a relatively new open source-based solution — Elastic APM.

Whitelist Email Addresses in Outlook ...for Office365 and Outlook Web

TLDR; "If you expect to receive important emails from a trusted email address it is worth whitelisting the address to make sure that emails won't be accidentally blocked by an overzealous email client." Here we provide step-by-step instructions on how to do it in Outlook for Office365 by adding the email address to your safe senders list...