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Big Data Performance Management Solution Top Considerations

The growing adoption of Hadoop and Spark has increased demand for Big Data and Performance Management solutions that operate at scale. However, enterprise organizations quickly realize that scaling from pilot projects to large-scale production clusters involves a steep learning curve. Despite progress, DevOps teams still struggle with multi-tenancy, cluster performance, and workflow monitoring. This webinar discusses the top considerations when choosing a big data performance management solution.

We raised $29 million in new funding. Here's what we're going to do with it

Today we are announcing an additional $29 million in funding to help Lumigo grow and provide the same powerful observability capabilities we brought to serverless to other cloud-native technologies, including containers and Kubernetes. Lumigo was founded by Aviad Mor and me a few years ago because we believed the world would be rapidly moving to cloud-native architectures and that these technologies are transformative. Our goal was to create the tools that help developers realize this vision.

5 Sustainable IT Practices for Your SaaS Applications

With web browser-accessed applications reaching record levels, employees are now spending most of their productive work time inside a cavern of business web applications. These may be custom applications built by a company for specific business purposes, or commercial SaaS applications for important functions such as collaboration, workflow management, scheduling, communication, transactional business, single sign-on, development, service desk, CRM, HR, and others.

What is Microsoft Azure Portal and its Benefits?

With the help of its continually growing global network of data centres, Microsoft has developed Azure, a cloud platform for developing, deploying, and managing services and applications from any location. Azure is available now. Azure’s platform as a service (PaaS) approach allows you to add cloud capabilities to your current network, while its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) model allows you to entrust Microsoft with all of your computing and network requirements (IaaS).

Introducing Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system which helps you collect, store, query, and get alerts on metrics that are important to your applications and infrastructure. In this video, we introduce Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus which is designed to help you scale your monitoring. Watch to learn how you can configure and manage Prometheus to keep up with the metrics from all of your successful services!

Perfect Your Cloud's Deployment with Logz.io & AWS CloudFormation Public Registry

AWS CloudFormation is a service that enables you to create and provision AWS infrastructure deployments predictably and repeatedly. This helps you leverage AWS products such as EC2 instances, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon SNS, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling to build highly reliable, highly scalable, cost-effective applications in the cloud – without worrying about creating and configuring the underlying AWS infrastructure.

Application Modernization With Azure

By running your applications and data on Azure, you get the innovation, flexibility, and affordability you need to more easily modernize and digitally transform your business, backed by the premium security policies and services you expect from Microsoft. Whether your goal is to make better decisions, perform important tasks faster, build apps more efficiently, drive profitability, or anything in between, #Microsoft and #Azure can provide your organization with the right tools to bring #applications and #data together and get the job done.

Announcing the Bitbucket Cloud Migration Assistant

We are excited to announce the launch of the Bitbucket Cloud Migration Assistant (BCMA). The BCMA is an Atlassian-supported app built to help Bitbucket Server customers automate the migration process from Bitbucket Server to Bitbucket Cloud. If you are considering a move to Bitbucket Cloud, this is the easiest way to get started. Download the BCMA from the Atlassian marketplace.

The 3 Best Ways To Talk To Your C-Suite About Cloud Costs

For any company working in the cloud or using managed cloud services to create products, cloud costs represent a significant expense. If you lead an engineering team, you may have to defend your bill to your CEO or CFO. But here’s the challenge: Cloud costs can be difficult to communicate because engineers and executives often think about cost from different perspectives. As an engineer, you may think of costs in terms of AWS services, such as EC2 instances, storage, etc.