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A pillar of the December holiday season, the Elves at Santa’s Workshop work tirelessly year-round to provide a quality Christmas experience for children around the world who have made it to the Nice list. To ensure all children on the Nice list receive their Christmas packages in a timely manner, the IT team at Santa’s Workshop turned to LogicMonitor to monitor Santa’s annual journey around the globe in real-time.

SREs face special challenges during the holidays. Here’s how to manage them.

I’m probably dating myself, but I used to love the television show The A-Team when I was little. Every week, the team would be put into the middle of a problem and work together to overcome some challenge. Plus, they had Mr. T and a really cool van.

If you are already a GitHub user, you may know that GitHub Actions provides you with powerful tools to increase efficiencies in your software delivery life cycle. Actions can be impactful for team collaborations and process simplification. For example, you can automate things like building a container, welcoming new users to your open source projects, managing branches, or triaging issues.

Yes, you read that right – in the comfort of your own laptop, as in, the entire environment running inside your laptop! Why? Well, read on. It’s a bit of a long one, but there is a lot of my learning that I would like to share. I often find that Calico Open Source users ask me about BGP, and whether they need to use it, with a little trepidation. BGP carries an air of mystique for many IT engineers, for two reasons.

Cloud computing service models come in three broad categories: This article outlines the key differences, examples, advantages and disadvantages for each cloud computing service model so you can choose the best option for your application’s needs.

If IT Financial Management (ITFM) was as simple as widely presumed, we’d be seeing IT expenditure dropping globally with the continued adoption of cloud services. For example, in 2020 it was expected that 83% of enterprise workloads would move to the cloud. That move happened but the results didn’t come with the extensive cost reduction benefits that businesses envisioned. Organizations are actually spending more despite the workload migration.

We all know the pleasure we feel when we dig into an old pair of jeans and pull out a crumpled $5 bill, or when we finally get around to vacuuming our car (“Hey, I don’t remember eating onion rings in here”) and find a few bucks in loose change. It’s as if the universe has taken a moment to smile on us.

An explanation of observability that highlights the role observability data play in supporting the active role of SREs as they reduce toil, improve uptime, and judiciously consume the error budget.

In this post, we are going to cover some of the most common misconceptions and queries users have about AWS Elasticsearch, Open Distro & OpenSearch as these three terms are often being used interchangeably to refer to any Amazon backed distribution of Elasticsearch and Kibana.