Operations, customer support, engineers and most groups use inconsistent language. This is a serious problem. Imagine NASA doing that with astronauts or a navy with ships talking to each other, but not using the same terms. Something very bad will happen. In our space of incident management, we use words like broke, failed, outage, doesn’t work, dead…all describing the same condition.
Log management tools improve security, help troubleshoot issues, and enable system monitoring. This log management guide defines key terms and explains the benefits of centralized tools.
This blog will cover what the Calico/VPP dataplane is and demonstrate the performance and flexibility advantages of using the VPP dataplane through a benchmarking setup. By the end of this blog post, you will have a clear understanding of how Calico/VPP dataplane, with the help of DPDK and accelerated memif interfaces, can provide high throughput and low-latency Kubernetes cluster networking for your environment.
Oh Dear has an extensive API that powers various powerful integrations. To use the API, you first need to create an API Token in the Oh Dear UI. Previously, such a token could be used to make API calls to any site or status page in your Oh Dear account. We noticed that some of our users are agencies that use Oh Dear to monitor their clients' sites.
As engineering organizations transitioned from monolith to microservices architectures, they sought to make their development efforts more scalable and manageable. The microservices paradigm promised to increase development speed, reduce MTTR and improve quality while cutting down on maintenance costs. However, in real life, there are inherent quality caveats when it comes to developing microservices.
Azure Files is a cloud-based file storage service provided by Microsoft that allows users to store and access file shares in the cloud. In this blog post, we will discuss what Azure Files is, how to efficiently reduce the cost of your Azure Files, and how to further save money with Azure Files.
Hall of Fame professional wrestler Paul "Mr. Wonderful" Orndorff said of his ascent to become one of the WWE's biggest stars of the 1980s that, "I knew where I wanted to go. I had a plan. I don't care what you do in life, you better have a plan." And for ITOps teams making new plan-or adjusting the sails on their existing ones-it's good to have insights that inform those plans.
