Though re:Invent technically runs for another day, the fourth day is traditionally the final day in terms of large announcements — this certainly rings true for this year as well, with several significant announcements from Amazon and associates.

If business professionals ignore network and system issues, the consequences could be dire. For instance, imagine what might happen if your company suffers a cyberattack, flood or supply chain failure. In this scenario, your critical networks and systems may slow down or stop working. And if you lack an effective business continuity management (BCM) strategy, you risk downtime and outages that could put a significant dent in your business’ bottom line.

Many Apex Up users have been asking about integration with continuous integration platforms, this post walks through staging and deploying Up to production using Semaphore CI.

This week at Skylight HQ (technically it’s in the Cloud somewhere), we were hit with a pretty big surge of requests on our collector (Cyber Monday perhaps?). Fortunately our backend is architected to handle a very large volume of data from the agents with minimal latency, so this kind of surge on our backend would not affect the performance of your apps in any way (in addition, the agent is sending data in the background from a different process separate from your app/server).

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Letting the right people know about incidents is an easier-said-than-done kind of task. Every incident is different and some notifications simply don’t need to land in everyone’s inbox. We’ve listened to a lot of customers who like the idea of posting an incident to their status page, but not having that incident sent as notifications to all their subscribers.

In this post, I will walk you through creating a simple Prometheus monitoring stack, connecting it to Grafana for pretty dashboards, and finally configuring alerts via PagerTree.

As re:Invent continues, so to does the string of announcements promising to change the face of cloud computing. Many of the major announcements today came from Amazon itself — amongst other items, AWS announced two new containerized cloud offerings.