Most likely you have heard about Spectre and Meltdown by now. It’s all over the news. As an IT or DevOps engineer, it’s now your job to patch your EC2 instance operating systems. This task can be “fun” if you need to SSH/RDP into every EC2 instance and apply patches. Or, it can be truly fun if you decide to use AWS Systems Manager to apply patches to your OS.
Modern cloud-based data services have revolutionized the way companies manage their data. Tools such as Amazon Athena and Amazon Redshift have changed data warehouse technology, catering for a move towards interactive, real-time, analytical solutions. Both Amazon Athena and Redshift offer their own unique benefits and use cases. Athena provides a cheaper and more portable way to query data while Redshift offers unrivalled performance and scalability.
At StatusCake we’ve got a great range of integrations for alerting, today we want to take you through some of the advantages of using OpsGenie which differs from some of our other integrations in that it has several extra layers of setup beyond what can be configured in the StatusCake app.
In June, 2014 we shipped an MVP for Cronitor that was so basic I cringe a little when I think about it. It didn’t do very much, most features were cut, but it shipped with paid subscriptions on day one. We sold one to a friend. My earliest work on subscription integration was primitive: The first month’s charge was captured during the upgrade but we created each subscription by hand in the Stripe dashboard.
In many ways, AWS is often seen as a leader in the cloud space. This is for good reason — AWS represents a wide range of business, small and large, as well as a variety of individual users, and as such, where AWS goes in terms of trend is largely where the industry trend itself is going.
Now, Pinpoint Twitter is On-line. Follow us on Twitter.
Implementing continuous integration at scale is essential to scaling your overall DevOps practice. The tools and technology you use shouldn’t hinder your ability to scale these practices alongside your business. We’ve recently introduced capabilities that allow you to scale your DevOps practices using modern CI/CD and today we’re excited to announce 500 and 1,000 agent tiers in Bamboo. Now you can increase build agent pools to match your team’s size.
AWS Direct Connect provides a dedicated network connection between on-premises and AWS environments. Such a connection can be more reliable and increase the uptime of your services because you’re unlikely to be impacted by an ISP’s availability issues, as is the case with traditional, internet-based connections. With our most recent release, Direct Connect connections can be automatically discovered and monitored in LogicMonitor.
For ManageEngine, 2017 can be largely defined by one of our favorite C.S. Lewis quotes: “You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.” We began the year with a goal; a goal to bring the numerous domains of IT management together. And we began the year with a dream; a dream to simplify IT management, a dream to help IT propel your business forward.
