As the complexity of Kubernetes environments grow, costs can quickly spiral out of control if an effective strategy for optimization is not in place. We’ve compiled expert recommendations and best practices for running cost-optimized Kubernetes workloads on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud (GCP).

It’s important for both technical and business teams to understand the different web performance monitoring options that are available as well as their various use cases and the benefits of each. In this article, we’ll compare synthetic monitoring and real user monitoring (RUM).

There are many different classes of web performance tools, from synthetic monitoring to application performance monitoring (APM), to real user monitoring (RUM), and more. These different classes exist because each has its own strengths and weaknesses. When evaluating open-source or enterprise-grade synthetic monitoring tools, you want to look for capabilities that maximize its strengths.

Telegraf has now reached 300+ plugins and is deployed in a wide variety of use cases. In January we released a blog post covering the golden rules for creating configs and optimizing your Telegraf agent. It’s now about time we got our hands dirty covering some of the plugins the community uses the most. In this post, we are going to cover the SNMP Input Plugin.

In May, we hosted our first in-person community meetup speaking about all things Kubernetes. Community members came and engaged in cloud-native discussions with talks from Saiyam Pathak, Kunal Kushwaha, Josh Van Leeuwen, and Walid Shaari. We also featured in ZDNet’s article on the four-day work week which includes an interview with Mark Boost, CEO at Civo. This outlined how employees have attained a better work-life balance with the change as well as why the decision was made.

React Native is an amazing framework for building cross-platform mobile applications. It helps you provide a high-quality, native-looking application that runs on multiple platforms, using a single codebase. The current React Native architecture uses the UI (or main) thread and the JavaScript thread. The JavaScript thread is used to run business logic, make API calls, process touch events, etc. The UI thread is where animations and transitions are done.