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Network Performance Monitoring

Your applications and infrastructure components rely on one another in an increasingly complex fabric, regardless of whether you run a monolithic application or microservices, and whether you deploy to cloud infrastructure, private data centers, or both. Virtualized infrastructure enables developers to respond to arbitrary scale—and creates dynamic network patterns that aren’t well matched to traditional network monitoring tools. To provide visibility into every component in your environment, and all the connections between them, Datadog is introducing Network Performance Monitoring for the cloud age. Miranda Kapin of Datadog tells you more.

APM For Serverless

Datadog announced a beta for native Datadog APM in serverless environments, starting with AWS Lambda. When running applications in a managed environment, it's especially important to be able to track down the sources of slowdowns and bottlenecks. Datadog APM for serverless means you'll always have your finger on the pulse of your application health, and your code doesn't need to change as your teams adopt serverless.

6 myths about chat etiquette that are slowing you down

Chat can be every bit as annoying as email if you and your colleagues aren’t using it right. It’s ironic, really. The whole point of group chat is to be a fast, fun way to communicate. But based on the conventional wisdom around chat etiquette, you’d think sending a quick ping was as delicate as inviting the Queen to high tea.

Top 10 DevOps Tools

Over the years DevOps has become quite the buzzword. Although DevOps has been challenging to describe because of its abstract nature, it’s described mainly as a culture change, where Dev and Ops teams collaborate to establish a more agile and reliable framework that counts on trust, transparency, and seamless communication to improve productivity and speed of software development from code commit to deploy.

Tips for modern NOCs - simplifying IT operations team reporting

The dreaded monthly operations and application meeting is edging near. You know which meeting we’re talking about: the one where all the Ops teams get together to talk about what they are seeing, about application enhancements and modifications, potential improvements, and often – about their frustrations!

What is AWS S3

Amazon Simple Storage Service, widely known as Amazon S3, is a highly scalable, fast, and durable solution for object-level storage of any data type. Unlike the operating systems we are all used to, Amazon S3 does not store files in a file system, instead it stores files as objects. Object Storage allows users to upload files, videos, and documents like you were to upload files, videos, and documents to popular cloud storage products like Dropbox and Google Drive.

Requirements of a Security Platform in a DevOps World

Businesses today cannot afford to be hacked. Cyber attacks can result in hefty fines and lawsuits, not to mention the reputational damage that can result in long-term revenue loss. Of course, this has always been true. But what has changed over the past few years is both the sheer volume of attacks and the growing sophistication used in them. As a result, there is a need an updated and upgraded kind of SIEM security platform to face them.

12 mobile device features that help ensure corporate data security

Our hearts might skip a beat every time we put our hands in our pocket and can’t find our mobile phone, and we’re filled with dread at the thought of losing the device that contains our personal photos and the corporate data saved on it. But just misplacing a device is not how we put corporate data at risk; small actions in our day-to-day lives can have a major impact on the safety of the corporate data on our devices.