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SREs and SWEs complement each other, but they perform different tasks and focus on different priorities.

In this article, guest blogger Gigi Sayfan explores event-driven programming: its benefits and shortcomings, how it works, and what useful patterns it brings to the table. We’ll also dive into some fun examples.

It’s the scariest time of year. But forget about ghosts and goblins and zombies. If you really want to be as scary as possible this spooky season, we know exactly what your costume should be and how you should decorate your yard. Here are some hints: What are they? Cybersecurity threat actors. *Cue terrifying music.* Before you roll your eyes, stick with us. This is worth a quick read.

There are three aspects of co-existence to discuss. The gateway deployment co-existence, the end user workflow co-existence, and the administrative management co-existence. We will walk through all three of these aspects.

Heaven knows we all could use some luck these days, and observability may be just the thing we need. But observability isn’t luck, and it isn’t really new either. A few people even know that observability is an aspect of control theory, which dates back to the 1800s! In this blog post, I’ll cover some of the history of observability vs.

To explain how cost anomaly detection works in AWS, let’s first look at an analogy. Imagine you strategically propagate, cultivate, harvest, and replenish trees for a thriving forest products company. In keeping with your eco-friendly policy, you only harvest the trees with straight and tall trunks. You leave irregularly shaped trees alone. Your company doesn’t harvest trees you won't use.

Serverless development has been turning heads in the market for quite some time now. But it has yet to be accepted by the majority in the development community. With AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and IBM’s Open Whisk, the market is poised to take a different route in this field. Most of these organizations are spending a lot of money to make the market accept this new paradigm using serverless computing.

Hi there, I guess that if you are here, you've already read the first part of this series and want some help to quickly get value from your NetFlow data, building trend analysis and advanced analytics with long term data (i.e months), in addition to playing with real-time data. You can take advantage of Splunk’s super flexible schema on read architecture to exploit your real-time data from the very first moment you get the data in.

Software development is getting faster and more complex – frustrating IT operations teams more than ever. So, DevOps gained popularity in order to combat siloed workflows, decreased collaboration and a lack of visibility. While establishing a culture of DevOps has helped teams collaborate better and deliver reliable software faster, DevOps teams don’t necessarily have someone specifically dedicated to developing systems that increase site reliability and performance.

Microsoft Azure is the public cloud computing platform by Microsoft which offers software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). It comprises more than 600 cloud services and supports varied operating systems, databases, and developer tools. And, even better, Splunk On-Call integrates with Microsoft Azure to help on-call teams improve incident response for Azure-based environments.