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We’ve reached the point in the DevOps transformation where efficiency and automation are no longer the highest objectives. The next step is engineering past automation and towards fully autonomous, self-healing systems. If you aren’t conversing about building this type of resilience into your systems and applications, there’s never been a better time than now to start.

Veterans United Home Loans is the top VA lender for home buyers in the United States and has been making the dream of homeownership a reality for veterans and military families for more than two decades. A big part of making that dream come true is keeping their services – including both internal applications and a robust digital experience for their borrowers – highly performant.

The complexity of modern information technology (IT) infrastructures has grown exponentially and changed the way software companies operate and deliver products and services. The days of a single application server and a simple delivery path are long gone. Today’s application development and delivery process can encompass multiple platforms, cloud vendors, code libraries and customer bases.

Modern-day servers are robust enough to accommodate as many applications and processes as possible. Still, there is a limit to how much load a server can handle. If your business does not heed the server constraints in time, you are bound to suffer from operational loss due to server downtimes. To closely monitor your server health, you must track specific metrics regularly. Here are some server monitoring metrics that every business should report and analyze.

Businesses today know what a cloud migration brings to the table regarding growth and optimization. AWS is the most popular cloud platform for hosting applications of varying complexity. But, with businesses aiming to upscale faster, the deployments tend to become difficult to track. This is one of the many reasons businesses need AWS monitoring tools. This blog will discuss the industry’s best practices for AWS monitoring.

For any digital service provider, there’s nothing worse than remaining in the dark and responding to network issues only when a customer rings in with a complaint. However, the planning and management needed to remain ahead of such network issues requires consistent monitoring. Network availability monitoring is a crucial aspect of network management and administration today. Here’s a detailed guide on network monitoring and network availability monitoring tools.

At GrafanaCONline 2022, Theia Scientific President, Managing Member, and Lead Developer Chris Field and Volkov Labs founder and CEO Mikhail Volkov — a Grafana expert — delivered a presentation about using Grafana and machine learning for real-time microscopy image analysis. Real-time microscopy image analysis involves capturing images on a microscope using a digital device such as a PC, iPad, or camera.

Prometheus is among the leading open-source metric-gathering and alerting platforms for managing metrics from microservices architectures. As Prometheus is such a popular choice in the cloud computing landscape today, we will explain how Prometheus metrics can be leveraged for observability.

This is how the developer story used to go: You do your coding work once, then you ship it to production—only to find out the code (or its dependencies) has security or other vulnerabilities. So, you go back and repeat your work to fix all those issues. But what if that all changed? What if observability were applied before everything was on fire? After all, observability is about understanding systems, which means more than just production.

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