A month ago, Skeddly added a Disable EBS Fast Snapshot Restores action. This action is a fantastic way to ensure you don’t leave EBS snapshots around with Fast Snapshot Restores enabled. That will just be a waste of money. Today, I’m happy to announce a new Skeddly action: Enable EBS Fast Snapshot Restores. This new action allows you to enable, and optionally disable Fast Snapshot Restores on your EBS snapshots.
YAML sucks! This blog post explains why existing tools hardly ease this pain, and what we at Grafana Labs did about it with our new project, Tanka.
In the third of our series of articles, Yan Cui highlights the key insights from the Amazon Builders’ Library article, Avoiding fallback in distributed systems, by AWS Senior Principal Engineer Jacob Gabrielson.
In the early days of Amazon, Jeff Bezos set a rule: teams shouldn’t be larger than what two pizzas can feed, no matter how large a company gets. Setting this rule of small teams meant individuals spent less time providing status updates to each other and more time actually getting stuff done. It also allowed team members more time to focus on continuous improvement. PagerDuty, like Amazon, has a strong culture of continuous improvement.
As part of Elasticsearch 7.5.0, we introduced a couple of ways to control the index age math that’s used by index lifecycle management (ILM) for phase timings calculations using the origination_date index lifecycle settings. This means you can now tell Elasticsearch how old your data is, which is pretty handy if you’re indexing data that’s older than today-days-old.
Traditional enterprise application platforms are usually built with Java Enterprise technologies and this is the case as well for OpsRamp. However, in machine learning (ML) world, Python is the most commonly used language, with Java rarely used. To develop ML components within enterprise platforms, such as the AIOps capabilities in OpsRamp, we have to run ML components as Python microservices and they communicate with Java microservices in the platform.
