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Mike Rahmati is the Head of the Advisory Board at Dashbird. He is the Co-Founder and CTO of Cloud Conformity (acquired by Trend Micro) – a Cloud Security Posture Management Solution – one of the largest and earliest adopters of serverless. Mike is also an active AWS Community Hero. In this article, he shares his journey and experience with serverless. Cloud Conformity was founded in 2014 as a result of our own experience of issues migrating to the cloud.

There was nothing predictable about 2020, and even though 2021 seems equally unpredictable – we mortals enjoy holding up the crystal ball as the year ends. At the moment, we can predict that those who want the Covid-19 vaccine in the United States will be able to get it in the next 6-8 months. We can also predict that working remotely will continue to be a major trend in 2021. We can predict that politics will continue to be deeply divided in the United States.

I might be dating myself, but I began working in the IT service industry back in the late 90s. During the same time, the now infamous Saturday Night Live comedy skit—Nick Burns, Your Company’s Computer Guy, played by Jimmy Fallon—started to gain popularity for its over-the-top rendition of IT.

Now that you’ve read through Top 5 Hurdles for Flux Beginners and Resources for Learning to Use Flux, you’re well on your way to being an advanced Flux user. This post includes some of the top hurdles for intermediate Flux users as well as solutions.

Are you new to InfluxDB v2.0 and Flux? Are you intimidated by learning a new time series scripting and query language? Perhaps you’re an InfluxDB v1.x user and you’re familiar with InfluxQL, and you’re unconvinced that learning Flux is worth your while? This two-part blog series aims to demonstrate the power of Flux and walk you through solutions to the top hurdles for both new and old InfluxDB users.

The Well-Architected Tool is a new AWS service that compares the state of your workloads with AWS architectural best practices. Splunking your workload state and improvement recommendations will give you better insights into your applications as well as best practices to follow along your cloud journey. The Well-Architected integration in Grand Central will give you workload insights broken down by the following 5 pillars.

Monitoring your application can be a difficult task if you’re just getting started with it. You need to know which metrics matter most and understand which ones you can combine into meaningful graphs. In the (not just holiday ⛄️) spirit of making things smoother for our users, we’ve added a magic dashboard to the Ruby integration that shows you the volume of emails you are sending with ActionMailer.

At SquaredUp, we are all about dashboards and visualizations that enable you to build the ideal single pane of glass. If you work in monitoring, you know that designing the perfect dashboards that give you all of your important metrics at a glance, is easier said than done. Most of the time, it takes several attempts to optimize a dashboard for easy reading, and more often than not, this step is neglected. I wouldn’t recommend skipping over this step though.

At AWS re:Invent today, Dr. Werner Vogels, VP and CTO of Amazon.com, announced a partnership between AWS and Grafana Labs, resulting in the Amazon Managed Service for Grafana, a scalable managed offering that provides AWS customers a native way to run Grafana directly within AWS alongside all their other AWS services. We’d like to give a big thanks to the whole Grafana community. Not only have they inspired us with so many great use cases, but they help us build better software every day.