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What Is Infrastructure as Code? How It Works, Best Practices, Tutorials

In the past, managing IT infrastructure was a hard job. System administrators had to manually manage and configure all of the hardware and software that was needed for the applications to run. However, in recent years, things have changed dramatically. Trends like cloud computing revolutionized—and improved—the way organizations design, develop, and maintain their IT infrastructure.

Class is in Session with The Observability Professor!

Please join the Observability Professor, Perry Correll, and Ed Bailey as they kick off a series of live streams about the magic and challenges of observability. In this session, Perry and Ed will talk about the foundational aspects of what is observability and its value to an enterprise. In later sessions, they will talk about steps for better telemetry from your applications and logs and how to use that data to help your business achieve clear insights into your application and customer behavior. It will be a fun and interesting discussion!

Scaling AWS Lambda and Postgres to thousands of simultaneous uptime checks

When you're building a serverless web app, it can be pretty easy to forget about the database. You build a backend, send some data to a frontend, write some tests, and it'll scale to infinity with no effort, right? Not quite. Especially not with a tiny Postgres server. As the number of users of your frontend increases, your app will open more and more database connections until the database is unable to accept any more. That's just the frontend - it gets worse on the backend.

10 Best New Relic Alternatives & Competitors [2023 Comparison]

New Relic is a huge name in the website observability and analytics industry. They’ve carved out a space for themselves in a highly competitive monitoring space, and have garnered thousands of users and hundreds of millions in revenue. New Relic is known for its Infrastructure Monitoring capabilities, but it also has a number of other tools that are just as popular. But, New Relic is not so popular with everyone.

Running OpenSearch on Kubernetes With Its Operator

If you’re thinking of running OpenSearch on Kubernetes, you have to check out the OpenSearch Kubernetes Operator. It’s by far the easiest way to get going, you can configure pretty much everything and it has nice functionality, such as rolling upgrades and draining nodes before shutting them down. Let’s get going 🙂

What's New in Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2022 UR1

Automation is at the heart of modern IT operations, and Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (SCO) has long been a vital tool in the arsenal of IT professionals. With each new release, Microsoft takes a step forward in refining and expanding the capabilities of SCO. This blog post will explore the exciting features and enhancements introduced in Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2022 Update Rollup 1 (UR1).

Revolutionize your network performance with OpManager's versatile network management tool

As networks become more highly dynamic, managing an entire network efficiently is not an easy task. When it comes to network monitoring, all you need to figure out is the type of network devices and the specific metrics you need to monitor. But when it comes to network management, there’s more to be taken into account, from network security, bandwidth hogs, change management, and policy management to performance optimization.

Brocade switch configuration management with Network Configuration Manager

Brocade network switches encompass a variety of switch models that cater to diverse networking needs. In today’s intricate networking landscape, manually handling these switches with varying configurations and commands within a large network infrastructure can be a daunting task. This complexity often leads to human errors such as misconfigurations. How can you optimize your network environment effectively when utilizing a variety of Brocade switches and eliminate the need for manual management?

How to Create a SaaS Spend Management Strategy

Wondering why you’re hearing about SaaS spend management more and more lately? These days, SaaS apps are everywhere, and adoption is still growing at an impressive rate. Gartner projects that SaaS spending will grow over 17% in 2024, with the market exceeding $232 billion. Unfortunately, much of that spend is wasted on zombie apps, overlapping software offerings, as well as under-utilized and over-provisioned licenses.