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Welcome to the Serverless world. One of the first things you’ll hear about is AWS Lambda - and you’ll continue to keep hearing about it! While architecture can be serverless without Lambdas involved, it’s very often the key component within a serverless application. In the first post of this 3-part AWS Lambda Handbook series, we run through what is AWS Lambda, dialling back to basics with the various terminology, how to create a Lambda function and how to run it.

When it comes to delivering the very best services to your customers, consistency is essential! That’s why many businesses choose to implement a service monitoring tool that will enable them to get greater control over their services. As one of today’s leading network and server monitoring softwares, Pandora FMS is here to share some of the benefits of service monitoring.

Application performance management (APM) involves managing the availability and efficiency of software applications by obtaining and translating IT metrics into business outcomes. Because application performance hiccups are inevitable, it’s crucial to have a robust APM solution in place so IT teams can resolve problems faster and more efficiently, lessening the impact on users and the bottom line. One factor muddling application performance optimization is the speed of change.

Cloud Logging is a popular tool to help developers, operators, and other users identify and find the root cause of issues in their infrastructure. With features like the Logs Explorer, you can quickly and efficiently retrieve, view, and analyze logs. To help you get the most out of your logs, we’re excited to introduce suggested queries in Cloud Logging to help highlight important logs, so you can start analyzing and troubleshoot issues quickly.

The Django Python framework allows people to build websites extremely fast. One of its best features is the Object-relational mapper (ORM), which allows you to make queries to the database without having to write any SQL. Django will allow you to write your queries in Python and then it will try to turn those statements into efficient SQL. Most of the time the ORM creates the SQL flawlessly, but sometimes the results are less than ideal.

Running systems in production involves requirements for high availability, resilience and recovery from failure. When running cloud native applications this becomes even more critical, as the base assumption in such environments is that compute nodes will suffer outages, Kubernetes nodes will go down and microservices instances are likely to fail, yet the service is expected to remain up and running.

Cloud and digital transformation have made business operations more efficient than ever. However, with more connected tools, devices, and platforms, monitoring has become a major challenge for IT professionals. Here is a simple analogy – imagine, you are the captain of a ship with thousands of passengers. The entire ship’s control rests in your hands. To better understand what is going on in your ship, you have installed various tools.

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is a popular web server for hosting web applications and is widely used in many sectors, such as healthcare, banking, e-commerce, logistics, etc. The IIS web server is the backbone of many IT infrastructures. But if the IIS web server encounters problems, it can lead to websites and applications experiencing higher response times, and timeouts resulting in end-users either leaving your website or complaining about the performance.

Remote and flexible working isn’t just changing where we work, it’s changing how we work. “The vision is changing, the game is changing,” explains Yasser Fouad Ramadan (Deputy General Manager, Head of IT Governance at Banque du Caire).

The cloud gets all the press today, and while organizations are moving more and more of their applications and associated infrastructure into the cloud, there is still a lot of “down below” on-premises. A recent cloud computing survey from IDG shows that a clear majority of companies plan to use cloud services for over half of their infrastructure and applications.