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Best Bee-haviors: Revamping Feature Flags with Nathan Lincoln

Nathan Lincoln, an SRE at Honeycomb, walks through the basics of feature flag best practices (using LaunchDarkly) to help you maintain a stable system. Feature flags are useful for reducing outages and downtime in our systems by allowing traffic segmentation, but they can create chaos without proper maintenance.

How to ensure HTTP notification delivery

Rely on AppDynamics alerts but consider no alerting system is immune from failure itself. Just like how a power outage could prevent an alarm clock from alerting you at the expected set time, issues can lead to alert failures if say for example, there is a misconfiguration during the setup or perhaps if an endpoint or gateway communication goes offline. Being able to rely on alerts is necessary, expecting one when a system is experiencing a health-related issue, however, we must prepare that there could be a failed HTTP request, that you must rely on that would notify you of an issue.

Troubleshooting Microsoft Teams

Issues with Microsoft Teams can be very impactful for organizations. There is a huge loss in productivity associated with teams performance issues and outages, it is also extremely disruptive to workflows. There are also financial costs to these issues, at the end-user level this can cause end users to miss deadlines and delay projects and the cost of IT Teams spending time troubleshooting or requiring external consultants or even Microsoft to assist, this cost adds up over periods of time.

Best IT Hardware Inventory Management (HAM) | Infraon

Do you need help managing and maintaining your organization's IT hardware? Discover how these tools can help you improve productivity, reduce costs, and minimize downtime due to hardware failure. Effective IT hardware inventory management is crucial in today's technology-driven business landscape. By providing accurate inventory information, these tools help businesses save money, optimize resource allocation, and ensure smooth operations. Additionally, they enhance security, assist with compliance requirements, and enable better planning and budgeting for future IT investments.

Kubernetes | How to run ElasticSearch, Kafka and Logstash in Kubernetes

How to run ElasticSearch, Kafka, and Logstash in Kubernetes Kubernetes has become one of the best choices for running distributed, big data ingestion microservices such as ElasticSearch, Kafka and Logstash. It provides a great deal of flexibility and resilience that make it the ideal hosting platform for a data pipeline. It's not however without it's pitfalls. Using the DKP Enterprise platform by D2iQ, our EMEA Principal Architect, Dave Whitehouse, gives us his top 5 tips for success using the open source, Day 2 applications that ship with the platform and run straight out of the box.