Payment gateway outages and performance issues have a disruptive effect on your business. When customers cannot complete a transaction, it leaves them frustrated and anxious. Even if it is not an outright outage, customers are wary of a flaky payment experience. They are often reluctant to retry the transaction for fear of being charged twice. This results in abandoned purchases and lost revenue.
I’ve been in the log data analytics space for years, and I have loved seeing the technology and methodologies change and evolve. One of my favorite changes has been the emergence of index-less solutions, and Humio has a great solution here. If you haven’t heard of Humio, you should check out their index-less log management solution for yourself (free up to 16 GB/day too).
Modern software systems are complex, with services distributed across data centers, in many zones, all around the world. Gone are the days when we managed individual servers dedicated to our organization, comfortable with the knowledge of the unique quirks of our setup. Now we rely on others to manage massive data centers where we borrow small slices of virtual space on shared hardware, traveling over shared networks, all in a system we call the cloud.
Enterprises are getting fed-up with their existing system monitoring tools. Despite decades of investments in monitoring tools, many businesses fail to notice a problem in their digital services until a customer calls to complain about it. So, it’s no surprise that businesses are looking for better solutions, and this has sparked an increasing interest in observability, according to Gartner in its updated report, “Innovation Insight for Observability.”
In this post, we are going to use a Gatsby sample to showcase how to deploy and manage Jamstack sites with Cloud 66 Prepress. We'll also list the statics site frameworks that are available on Cloud 66 Prepress.
When high temperatures, prolonged drought, and lightning strikes ignited a huge swath of Australia’s wilderness in late 2019 to mid-2020, Australians stepped up in droves to assist with the rescue and cleanup efforts. The New South Wales (NSW) Rural Fire Service (RFS), a government agency under the NSW State Public Sector, was inundated with inquiries and applications from people wanting to join the fight.
Being on call is challenging. It’s signing up to be operating complex services in a totally interruptible manner, at all hours of the day or night, with limited context. It’s therefore critical to have proper on-call on-boarding procedures, offer continuous training sessions, and continuously improve documentation. We also need to make sure people feel safe by providing ways to reduce their stress, and make room for questions to surface all sorts of uncertainties around our operations.
Before we dive into the Collector, let’s cover the components that make up the OpenTelemetry project. If you missed it, our post What is OpenTelemetry gives a high level introduction to OpenTelemetry and the key components of OpenTelemetry project: The OpenTelemetry collector is optional when using a SaaS service like Scout. Even so, knowing what the Collector can do and when to use it is helpful to understand.
