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Container Network Observability

Justin Ryburn describes the complexities of managing the network in a modern Kubernetes deployment and how Kentik can provide observability. Leveraging eBPF technology allows network engineers the ability to visualize and make sense of the network traffic within the Kubernetes cluster, as well as traffic entering and leaving the cluster. Justin wraps up with a brief demo of Kentik’s beta Kentik Kube functionality.

Network Observability Across the Enterprise

Justin Ryburn describes the complexities of managing a modern enterprise network and the various areas where Kentik can provide observability. Having all of this information in a single platform that is easy to access and highly scalable provides a lot of value to Kentik customers. Justin wraps up with a discussion of Kentik’s roadmap for the future.

The Psychological Impact of Website Downtime on User Trust and Brand Perception

Website downtime refers to the period when a website is inaccessible or experiences disruptions, resulting in users being unable to access its content or services. In today's digital landscape, websites are crucial to business success and user engagement. The reliability of a website is paramount as it directly affects user experience and brand perception. User trust is the foundation of any successful online interaction.

What Is Infrastructure as Code? How It Works, Best Practices, Tutorials

In the past, managing IT infrastructure was a hard job. System administrators had to manually manage and configure all of the hardware and software that was needed for the applications to run. However, in recent years, things have changed dramatically. Trends like cloud computing revolutionized—and improved—the way organizations design, develop, and maintain their IT infrastructure.

Class is in Session with The Observability Professor!

Please join the Observability Professor, Perry Correll, and Ed Bailey as they kick off a series of live streams about the magic and challenges of observability. In this session, Perry and Ed will talk about the foundational aspects of what is observability and its value to an enterprise. In later sessions, they will talk about steps for better telemetry from your applications and logs and how to use that data to help your business achieve clear insights into your application and customer behavior. It will be a fun and interesting discussion!

Scaling AWS Lambda and Postgres to thousands of simultaneous uptime checks

When you're building a serverless web app, it can be pretty easy to forget about the database. You build a backend, send some data to a frontend, write some tests, and it'll scale to infinity with no effort, right? Not quite. Especially not with a tiny Postgres server. As the number of users of your frontend increases, your app will open more and more database connections until the database is unable to accept any more. That's just the frontend - it gets worse on the backend.

10 Best New Relic Alternatives & Competitors [2023 Comparison]

New Relic is a huge name in the website observability and analytics industry. They’ve carved out a space for themselves in a highly competitive monitoring space, and have garnered thousands of users and hundreds of millions in revenue. New Relic is known for its Infrastructure Monitoring capabilities, but it also has a number of other tools that are just as popular. But, New Relic is not so popular with everyone.

Running OpenSearch on Kubernetes With Its Operator

If you’re thinking of running OpenSearch on Kubernetes, you have to check out the OpenSearch Kubernetes Operator. It’s by far the easiest way to get going, you can configure pretty much everything and it has nice functionality, such as rolling upgrades and draining nodes before shutting them down. Let’s get going 🙂

What's New in Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2022 UR1

Automation is at the heart of modern IT operations, and Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (SCO) has long been a vital tool in the arsenal of IT professionals. With each new release, Microsoft takes a step forward in refining and expanding the capabilities of SCO. This blog post will explore the exciting features and enhancements introduced in Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2022 Update Rollup 1 (UR1).