The Importance of Monitoring Containers
By Kevin Goldberg
With the rise of Docker, Kubernetes, and other container technologies, the
growth of microservices has skyrocketed among dev teams looking to innovate
on a faster release cycle. This has enabled teams to finally realize their
DevOps goals to ship and iterate quickly in a continuous delivery model. Why
containers are growing in popularity is no surprise — they’re extremely
easy to spin up or down, but come with an unforeseen issue.
However, without the right foresight, DevOps and IT teams may lose a lot of
visibility into these containers resulting in operational blind spots and
even more haystacks to find the presumptive performance issue needle.
If your team is looking towards containers and microservices as an
operational change in how you decide to ship your product, you can’t afford
bugs or software issue... (more)
Five Challenges for a Successful Enterprise DevOps Model
By Kevin Goldberg
It’s surprisingly difficult to find a concise proper definition of just
what exactly DevOps entails. However, I did come across this quote that seems
to do a decent job, “DevOps is a culture, movement or practice that
emphasizes the collaboration and communication of both software developers
and other information-technology (IT) professionals while automating the
process of software delivery and infrastructure changes.”
Okay, you understand what DevOps is, and what it isn’t, but why should your
enterprise ... (more)
Industry Insights: The Threat Behind Digital Transformation
By Jonah Kowall
The age of digital disruption is upon us, as the last decade alone has proven
in terms of technology and disruption with the progression of organizations
like Uber, Airbnb, and Netflix. We are also on the brink of new disruptions
in industry, including banking or payments, insurance, healthcare,
construction, packaging, and many more. These not only come from startups
disrupting a sector, but companies being able to shift from their existing
focus areas to build on new opportunities. They’re driven interna... (more)
The True Cost of Downtime
By Kevin Goldberg
Do you know how much your organization risks with every potential outage?
Application performance issues can impact away more than revenue, your brand
might take a substantial hit as well. Hundreds, thousands of potential
customers could take to Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, the App Store and voice
their complaints and give poor reviews simply because your app crashed,
stalled, or they weren’t able to successfully check out.
Unfortunately, application issues are inevitable. Even if your uptime SLA is
99%, your application would still be down ... (more)
Pokémon Go: A Developer's Perspective
By Anand Akela
Every app developer dreams of the kind of success that Pokémon Go is
enjoying right now. A month ago, it was just a rumor. Just 24 hours after it
was released, it was the number one top grossing app, even though it was free
to download and play. Within a single week, Pokémon Go servers were slammed
with traffic from 21 million players while they tried to fix production
errors.
Today it has 3X more Android downloads than Tinder, nearly as many daily
active users as Twitter and users spend twice as much time in the app as they
... (more)
In high-production environments where release cycles are measured in hours or minutes — not days or weeks — there's little room for mistakes and no room for confusion. Everyone has to understand what's happening, in real time, and have the means to do whatever is necessary to keep applications up and running optimally.
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