Mark Twain once said, “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” As another decade draws to a close, we at ManageEngine, started to reminisce about the roller coaster of a ride that began 20 years back. As 2019 winds down, we’re taking stock of what’s turned out to be an eventful year here at ManageEngine.
In the second of our new series of posts, Yan Cui highlights the key insights from the Amazon Builders’ Library article, Using load shedding to avoid overload, by AWS Principal Engineer (AWS Lambda) David Yanacek.
The popularity of serverless infrastructure, like AWS Lambda, is on the rise, which is easy to understand, given its promise of a cheaper price tag and less maintenance. However, as companies are lifting and shifting apps into lambda, many are discovering that it’s not that simple. Like any shift, such as moving from on-prem to the cloud, the reality is, applications need to be designed a certain way in order for you to reap the cost and efficiency benefits.
As a company known for our anomaly detection, we know a thing or two about spotting irregularities. So as we reached the end of 2019, we couldn’t help but think back on the 2010s and the anomalies that shook the world. Once we got to listing them, it really became tough to pick just 10. Ultimately, after much debate, we ranked them based on their impact, newsworthiness and how utterly unexpected they were.
New Year’s Eve marks the transition into a new decade, beginning with personal resolutions and expectations for 2020. Much is the same in the IT industry, as support teams expect to adopt trending technologies to reduce their mean time to repair (MTTR) and improve incident resolution. This post will provide an in-depth look into five trends, discussing how growing technologies streamline IT workflows in the new year.
In my previous post on new approaches to managing hybrid cloud environments, I discussed the issues that commonly arise for IT operations teams. While hybrid cloud gives IT great flexibility to design infrastructure that’s uniquely suitable to diverse business and user requirements, it also brings about more complexity. Hybrid and multi-cloud businesses generate significantly more IT event data and its coming from many more places now.
