Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Developed and released by Google in 2018 with contributions from IBM, VMWare, Red Hat, and other companies, the Knative project is designed to make it as simple as possible to build, deploy, and scale serverless containers across your existing Kubernetes infrastructure. By operating on top of Google Anthos, Knative for Anthos takes this even further by allowing developers to build and deploy applications across any hybrid environments that include both on-prem and cloud-hosted serverless clusters.

Quik Pick Express, a California-based trucking company, provides a variety of services, including container drayage, warehousing services, container shipping, transloading, and much more. The company services seven locations in the state of California, with its IT infrastructure network being critical for its business. After a thorough evaluation, Quik Pick Express’ IT team chose OpManager, an all-inclusive network monitoring solution, to monitor its business-critical IT infrastructure network.

Bring it on Pandora FMS! If we have previously told you about our success at the Open Source Awards 2022 and the Peer Awards 2021, today we are here to tell you that we are at it once again!

Flutter is one of the fastest-growing open source cross-platform development frameworks. The likes of BMW, Google Pay, Tencent, and iRobot all use Flutter to quickly build and maintain mobile applications. In fact, Flutter was used by 42% of software developers in 2021, surpassing React Native as the most popular cross-platform mobile framework.

Being a Cribl Pack author, I frequently receive questions related to why I chose to implement a certain functionality inside my Packs the way I did. A few lives ago, I worked for a Fortune 250 oil & gas company where I managed our SIEM environment. We didn’t have much in terms of system resources, so we needed to make everything run as efficiently as possible. (Maybe that’s where I get my love for performance from?)

At Netdata, we love two things more than anything else: Our goal is to make troubleshooting and monitoring as seamless as possible with the open-source Agent. This includes giving you pre-configured alerts so that you get notified immediately when a disruption occurs. The Netdata Agent comes with over 250 pre-configured and optimized alerts.

When it comes to building and deploying applications, one increasingly popular approach these days is to use microservices in Kubernetes. It provides an easy way to collaborate across organizational boundaries and is a great way to scale. However, it comes with many operational challenges. One big issue is that it’s difficult to test the microservices in real-life scenarios before letting production traffic reach them. But there are ways to get around it.