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A changelog is a chronological list of important changes users can reference as an application or service expands. Logs explain what features are added, which are changed or adjusted and what those changes do. They sometimes provide explanation or instruction. Logs are useful for preparing your user base for scheduled downtime, and giving your most loyal users something to look forward to.

Since Amazon released Lambda in late 2014, the notion of serverless applications and function-as-a-service has steadily gained steam. Being able to focus on application code and simplifying infrastructure management is alluring, but traditional monitoring methods are no longer applicable. With less visibility, it becomes even more important to take advantage of the available monitoring methods. In this post, we discuss those monitoring methods, CloudWatch Metrics and CloudWatch Logs.

As a product manager in a high-growth environment, I have come to accept that at any given time, something is on fire. Or, at the very least, smoldering. Five or so years ago, the team at Raygun, was just five people. Now, we’re building software products for businesses like Nordstrom. With this growth also comes many learning opportunities for a product manager like myself.

In this tutorial, we will walk through using Rancher to deploy and scale Jenkins on top of Kubernetes. By following steps from this article, you will create a fully functional installation of Jenkins with a master-agent architecture that we use to test real build jobs.

We have been doing a little tidying up around here, giving the website a small facelift. Our contributors have not rested with, with more pack updates including NetBox, PagerDuty, Atlassian Crowd and InfluxDB. Here’s the details.

Recently AWS released a new set of icons for all their services. We were really stoked about it, until we opened the file and realized they were low resolution raster icons in a Powerpoint file.

How well does the team within your managed solution provider business communicate? How much would you say the service desk team in your MSP talks to one another? For most MSPs, communication between members of a service desk team relies on the updates that are typed into a ticket, the casual conversations between taking support calls, and perhaps the occasional tap on the shoulder between engineers for specific issues.

Sumo Logic provides digital businesses a powerful and complete view of modern applications and cloud infrastructures such as AWS. Today, we’re pleased to announce complete visibility into performance, health and user activity of the leading Amazon Aurora database via two new applications – the Sumo Logic MySQL ULM application and the Sumo Logic PostgreSQL ULM application.