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3 Ways to Run Kubernetes on AWS

Kubernetes is hugely popular and growing, and is primarily used on the cloud — 83 percent of organizations included in a large CNCF survey said they run Kubernetes on at least one public cloud. Amazon is a natural option for Kubernetes clusters, due to its mature and robust infrastructure, and a variety of deployment options with a varying degree of automation.

Configure and manage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure components with Puppet

As many Oracle customers plan their migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or OCI, proper tools should be considered in order to make a smooth transition. We’re excited to share that Enterprise Modules, a key contributor to the Puppet ecosystem, has recently created a module that extends the Puppet language to contain types needed to create and manage the lifecycle of objects within your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Biggest Challenges in Enterprise IT: Data Quality Gap & Data Dispersion

Enterprise data comprising business, operations and assets information, resides in different forms and in different places. While the data is distributed they carry important relationship insights which when leveraged can accelerate and improve decision making to drive the outcomes. This is one of the key challenges that analytics solutions, like AIOps, need to address.

Advanced Git with the Free University of Tbilisi

On Monday, March 16, 2020, I had the privilege to (virtually) join Shota Gvinepadze and his students at the Free University of Tbilisi and speak about “Advanced Git @ Mattermost” for a portion of their class time. The following are my speaking notes from the session, slightly modified from the original slides for this format. Keep in mind that the command line examples are illustrative of my workflow, and not meant to be run in isolation.

User Experience Tools Ready-Made for Remote Work

While none could have imagined the global impact the pandemic has had, some healthcare organizations were fortunate to have the right tools before the crisis struck. Ivanti recently hosted a webinar panel discussion with members of Houston’s Kelsey-Seybold Clinic and Houston Methodist, during which IT leaders from these hospitals discussed their rapid transition to remote work.

Now Working from Home? Smart Tips to Stay Productive

With more and more people encouraged or required to work from home these days, we reached out to some of our remote-work veterans for their insights on staying productive within their domestic domiciles. Q: What are your essential tools for communication, collaboration, and outreach (phone, email, Teams, WebEx, etc.) Brandon Black, Vice President and GM of Supply Chain: Staying connected with your team and customers alike is essential when working from home.

Unpacking Events: All the Better to Observe

At Honeycomb, we’ve been listening to your feedback. You want easier ways to predict usage and scale your observability spend with your business. What would it look like to meet you where you already are, using similar terms, and give you more control with a simpler experience? We think that means reimagining the customer experience into one that centers around an event-based model. But what exactly is an event? What does that mean for your team’s observability journey?

How to enrich logs and metrics using an Elasticsearch ingest node

When ingesting data into Elasticsearch, it is often beneficial to enrich documents with additional information that can later be used for searching or viewing the data. Enrichment is the process of merging data from an authoritative source into documents as they are ingested into Elasticsearch. For example, enrichment can be done with the GeoIP Processor which processes documents that contain IP addresses and adds information about the geographical location associated with each IP address.