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Serverless Stonks checker for Wall Street Bets: week 3 activity report insights

A few weeks ago we posted the “How we built a serverless Stonks checker API for Wall Street Bets” article. And ever since, we’ve seen quite a lot of volume in the Stonks checker app. In this follow-up article, we will show you some interesting findings around the API. Over the past three weeks, we have seen a good amount of usage of the API we set up. You can see that there was a nice spike soon after the story broke.

Synthetic Monitoring of Amazon WorkSpaces

Amazon WorkSpaces enables you to provision virtual, cloud-based Microsoft Windows or Amazon Linux desktops for users. WorkSpaces eliminates the need to procure and deploy hardware or install complex software. You can quickly add or remove users as your needs change. Users can access their virtual desktops from multiple devices or web browsers.

How to alert on high cardinality data with Grafana Loki

Amnon is a Software Engineer at ScyllaDB. Amnon has 15 years of experience in software development of large-scale systems. Previously he worked at Convergin, which was acquired by Oracle. Amnon holds a BA and MSc in Computer Science from the Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel and an MBA from Tel Aviv University. Many products that report internal metrics live in the gap between reporting too little and reporting too much.

How important is middleware monitoring for organizations?

As any organization grows and goes wider and bigger, their infrastructure and the IT landscape also expands. The “N” number of dependencies and running tasks at a moment needs careful monitoring. However, bigger the organization, the more complex and difficult it gets to monitor the transitions and communication. Without the smooth transactions and perfectly running operations team, day-to-day business would go through many hurdles.

Announcing support for Amazon ECS Anywhere

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a managed compute platform for containers that was designed to be simple to configure, with opinionated defaults to help users get started quickly. ECS customers can run containerized workloads on either Amazon EC2 instances or the serverless Fargate platform without having to maintain a control plane—and can easily integrate ECS with other AWS resources, like Network Load Balancers, to architect their infrastructure.

Introducing ManageEngine Academy, a thought leadership content hub for IT leaders

ManageEngine, which started out small a couple of decades ago, now solves the IT management problems of millions of customers worldwide by providing complete, simple solutions. The story of our growth is one that we’ll always be proud of. But this story is built on years of learning, unlearning, and refining our processes. The stories of our internal struggles have made the story of our success possible and taste a lot sweeter.

What is server testing, and why should you do it?

Whether you are running a website, a SaaS app, or something else, you need to ensure that your digital properties deliver the best possible performance. Factors such as server speed or storage capacity impact performance, which is why server testing is so important. Server testing will give you a clear idea of your app or site's performance and what you can do to make it run even better. This article will take a closer look at server tests.

Using LogDNA to Debug in Development

Developing scalable and reliable applications is a serious business. It requires precision, accuracy, effective teamwork, and convenient tooling. During the software construction phase, developers employ numerous techniques to debug and resolve issues within their programs. One of these techniques is to leverage monitoring and logging libraries to discover how the application behaves in edge cases or under load.

Using LogDNA and your Logs to QA and Stage

An organization’s logging platform is a critical infrastructure component. Its purpose is to provide comprehensive and relevant information about the system, to specific parties, while it's running or when it's being built. For example, developers would require detailed and accurate logs when building and implementing services locally or in remote environments so that they can test new features.