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geeks+gurus: Tackling Common DevOps and Security Issues in Game Development

In this 25-minute conversation, Melissa Sussmann and Jason Dunne will lead a discussion with special guest Yuval Dovrat - Amazon Web Services, Solutions Architect. Discussion will cover the unique challenges gaming presents for DevOps practitioners and security engineering teams. We will cover.

geeks+gurus: Modern Application Architecture

In this episode of geeks+gurus, Sumo Logic's Melissa Sussmann and NGINX's Damian Curry will discuss the 4 key pillars of modern application architecture: Portability, Scalability, Resilience, and Agility. We then delve into a discussion around Open Telemetry (OTel) in the context of collection and logs management for modern applications. Disparate tracing, metrics, and logging can make it difficult to abide by the modern app pillars we outline. However, OTel offers a unified standard that can elevate observability in your deployment cycles.

How to Troubleshoot Amplify APIs

One of the things we love about working in the cloud is the ease and scalability it brings to application development. It enables us to build out applications, APIs and any infrastructure that is needed from prototyping an idea, through to self scaling deployments. Monitoring and troubleshooting production-level serverless applications is always tricky, Especially working across a number of services and the many logs they can produce.

How to Increase PHP Memory Limits

Why are PHP memory limits important to your website development journey? PHP is a famous backend technology that is used by many tech giants for supporting their applications. PHP gives many advanced features for making web pages dynamic and integrating some features you can not simply get using javascript, HTML, and CSS. Whenever you set up a new PHP project, some memory is allocated automatically. This memory is mostly suitable for general applications.

How to configure Grafana Loki with a Node.js e-commerce app

I recently changed teams within Grafana and now I get the chance to work with Grafana Loki, our highly effective open source log aggregation system that stores and queries logs from your infrastructure or applications. At Grafana, we always dogfood our products so what better way to learn more about Loki than trying out a simple use case that I can actually benefit from.

7000+ GitHub stars, DIY Query Builder & UX improvements - SigNal 14

It’s time for our monthly product updates. Closing GitHub issues, fixing bugs, shipping code, and sipping coffee, time flies by every month. Last month, we crossed a major milestone of 7000+ GitHub stargazers. We can not thank the developer community enough for supporting us in our mission to democratize observability.

Expert Series: Broadcom IT Shares Their View on the Difference Between Monitoring and Monitoring Correctly

This post is part of a series featuring customers, partners, and experienced DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) practitioners. We’ve asked these expert users to share their knowledge with the broader DX UIM community. Today, we’re featuring Kathy Solomon, the Unix Systems Administrator for the R&D Support organization within Broadcom IT.

Integration means automation: ServiceNow Integration with Avantra

Integrations to third party ITOM/ITSM solutions have been used by all Avantra customers since the beginning back in 2003. Often this is due to corporate support processes and the customer’s wish that all solutions used to manage the entire IT landscape shall report to one single ITOM/ITSM solution. This is where activities of different departments are coordinated.