Metrics Without Limits
In this video Michael Gerstenhaber gives a review of Distribution Metrics and then expands into Metrics without Limits.
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Canary Deploys
Working with complex systems means that even well-written code can behave in unexpected ways, leading to outages and critical issues. Jason Yee shows you how to limit the effect of unforeseen issues using canary deploys.
Tracking SLOs and Error Budgets in Datadog
Watch product manager Meghan Jordan as she discusses and demonstrates how Datadog’s monitor uptime and SLO widget can help you track your SLO performance, watch your error budget, and provide important visibility into the status of your SLOs and SLIs.
Network Performance Monitoring
Your applications and infrastructure components rely on one another in an increasingly complex fabric, regardless of whether you run a monolithic application or microservices, and whether you deploy to cloud infrastructure, private data centers, or both. Virtualized infrastructure enables developers to respond to arbitrary scale—and creates dynamic network patterns that aren’t well matched to traditional network monitoring tools. To provide visibility into every component in your environment, and all the connections between them, Datadog is introducing Network Performance Monitoring for the cloud age. Miranda Kapin of Datadog tells you more.
APM For Serverless
Datadog announced a beta for native Datadog APM in serverless environments, starting with AWS Lambda. When running applications in a managed environment, it's especially important to be able to track down the sources of slowdowns and bottlenecks. Datadog APM for serverless means you'll always have your finger on the pulse of your application health, and your code doesn't need to change as your teams adopt serverless.
Corporate Virtana Launch October 21 2019
Philippe Vincents, CEO, shares our Virtana Vision.
Top 10 DevOps Tools
Over the years DevOps has become quite the buzzword. Although DevOps has been challenging to describe because of its abstract nature, it’s described mainly as a culture change, where Dev and Ops teams collaborate to establish a more agile and reliable framework that counts on trust, transparency, and seamless communication to improve productivity and speed of software development from code commit to deploy.
Web browser security. Is it really safe?
If there is still a reason why you have a post-it covering the webcam of your laptop, if you have not yet had the audacity to delve into the deep web despite all the mysteries they say it contains, if you only enter the Internet in incognito mode, sitting in your armchair with a blindfold: then you’re worried about one thing: safety. Today, in our blog, we will discuss Web browser security. Which are the safest? Is there life beyond Google Chrome?
The Sapphire Ventures CIO Innovation Index Report: CIOs Forge Tighter Bonds with Startups, Especially in AI
Despite a rocky year in the global economy, global venture deal volume grew by over 9.3 percent in the third quarter of 2019, up nearly 9.9 percent from Q3 2018, according to Crunchbase. The year 2018 was a banner year for dollar volume: startups raised $130.9 billion, which surpassed the epic year of 2000, according to Pitchbook.
The Importance of Engineer Walkabouts
A core tenet of managed services is the ability of an MSP to support multiple clients, in various locations, all without ever leaving your desk. While this approach is more efficient and profitable than dispatching engineers out to client sites to deal with every support ticket that comes in, there’s a catch. The challenge is when you become good at doing managed services in this way, you don’t have much of an excuse to visit your client sites at all.