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Building Systems For AI: Lessons On Governance From DevOps History

In 2008, Nuance hired me to join their Healthcare Speech Recognition team as a “Release Engineer.” DevOps wasn’t a thing yet — Patrick Debois and Andrew Shafer wouldn’t hold their first “DevOpsDays” until 2009. But I was lucky that “Release Engineer” at Nuance meant “jack of all trades” who wrote Makefiles, bash scripts, Perl, and Java to build and release code to a fleet of hundreds of on-premise Linux machines.
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Streamlining multi-cloud complexity with unified observability

A wave of businesses are embracing multi-cloud strategies to gain flexibility and scalability. By combining on-premises infrastructure, private clouds, and public platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IT teams can experiment, deploy, transform, and improve their IT applications significantly. On the down side, this modern IT approach of employing multiple clouds (in both public and private forms) also brings significant complexity, making it challenging to monitor systems, control costs, and secure environments. There are just too many threads to track and tie together to ensure a taut IT fabric.

From Chaos to Control-How PagerDuty and AWS Are Protecting Business Continuity

The recent outage on June 12 proved yet again that service disruptions are inevitable, it’s not a matter of if, but when? And the next question is: how ready are you when that disruption strikes? What sets successful leaders apart is how quickly they are able to recover. Digital businesses are more complex than ever. Teams are managing sprawling cloud environments, microservices architectures, and a dizzying array of third-party integrations.

Build Smarter With Cloud-Native Tools: Your 2025 Guide

Cloud-native tools promise speed, scalability, and resilience. The catch is you have to pick the right ones and use them well. Without the right foundation, they can mean more complexity, hidden costs, and a false sense of control. In this guide, we’ll help you avoid that trap. From infrastructure to observability and CI/CD tools, we’ll cover the solutions shaping modern cloud stacks.

Stream AWS Metrics to Grafana with Last9 in 10 minutes

It’s 2:47 AM and your Lambda functions are timing out. API response times are spiking. You’re flipping between the CloudWatch console, your APM tool, and your logs, trying to figure out what’s going wrong. CloudWatch has the metrics you need: CPU usage, memory pressure, and request rates — but connecting that data to what your app is doing takes time. The delay in stitching it all together slows down your incident response.

How to ensure your AWS workloads are resilient

Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Cloud providers like AWS give you plenty of tools to make your workloads more resilient, but it’s up to you to apply them. However, considering how complex some of these tools are, where do you start? And how can you be sure your systems are more reliable as a result?