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How the Cortex and Thanos projects collaborate to make scaling Prometheus better for all

Cortex and Thanos are two brilliant solutions to scale out Prometheus, and many companies are now running them in production at scale. These two projects, both in the CNCF Sandbox, initially started with different technical approaches and philosophies: Cortex has been designed for scalability and high performances since day zero, while Thanos was originally focused on operational simplicity and cost-effectiveness.

How to Cohesively Execute Change and Release Management

Strategic changes and new deployments in all growing businesses are expected. So by design, businesses need to be adaptive to new changes. When such transformations are being undertaken, organizations need to continue preserving their infrastructures while complying with pre-defined timelines. To efficiently manage such deployments, organizations make use of ITIL concepts like change and release management.

Proactive Monitoring with AIOps Early Warning System

Boost your efficiency and eliminate manual efforts with actionable alerts that identify anomalies. With LogicMonitor's AIOps Early Warning System teams can proactively prevent problems instead of reacting to them and therefore minimize downtime and slow downs that may negatively affect their business.

Configuring Flowmon Using Presets

Nobody wants to spend hours configuring a product. It should just work. Flowmon’s customers, partners, and distributors are fortunate in having a number of presets at their disposal for speedy configuration, whether during initial deployment, adjusting the product to new circumstances, or a quick product demonstration. There is no laborious setup; the user just chooses a use case, follows a few guided steps, and lets the system set everything up.

#ITConnections: Efficient Alert Strategy that Can be Translated to Remote Work

Relevant and timely alerts are a key tool for managing network performance successfully. However, network administrators are often overwhelmed by alerts. Either they receive too many alerts or get notified of ones that aren’t relevant to them. Join us for this #ITConnections session where we will discuss how to increase the efficiency of your alerts management strategy while having a team that is working remotely.

Icinga Web permissions and restrictions (how do they work, examples)

Permissions and restrictions are something used to control how much access is provided to a particular user or user group. Therefore one must first understand what is the role of a user or a group. Here, you will understand permissions and restrictions through configuring users, user groups and roles. They can either be created using configuration files or web interface. When the Icinga Web 2 is installed a default user with admin access is configured.

Crash Course on AWS CDK and Serverless with REST API and Data Lake Analytical Querying

This is a hands-on course on how to deploy a fully Serverless web app using the AWS CDK. You can use the resources declared in this demo application as a starting point to mix and adapt to your own architectures later, which should save you quite some time.

Serverless Case Study - Coca-Cola

A while back I talked about how big companies have started using serverless in production and how this is a clear sign that we will see more implementation of the serverless infrastructure in the near future. I’d like to take some time today and talk about one of the companies that are using serverless in production: Coca-cola.