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Why you should look beyond the big 3 cloud providers

There are appealing enterprise options beyond AWS, Azure, and GCP, but buyer beware — not just any cloud service qualifies

6 tips for rapidly scaling applications

How to address dramatic usage increases during COVID-19 or to start planning for growth in the post-pandemic recovery

Why observability is the future of systems monitoring

Combining metrics, events, logs, and traces is essential to understanding our increasingly complex software environments

OPA: A general-purpose policy engine for cloud-native

Open Policy Agent simplifies authorization policy creation and enforcement for distributed applications, Kubernetes, microservices, and much more

How Aerospike achieves low latency and strong consistency across multiple sites

Aerospike Database 5’s multi-site clustering eliminates the trade-off between data consistency and high performance for large-scale, always-on, globally distributed transaction systems

10 important new features in Grafana 7.0

Grafana 7.0 represents a fundamental, system-wide advancement of the open source monitoring and observability platform. Here are the highlights

4 deployment strategies for resilient microservices

Turn to these cloud-native routing techniques to test and mitigate risk in your microservices deployments

Client-serverless is the 4th generation application model

Application models do not change very often, but when they do, they create many opportunities

How PagerDuty helps customer service and IT teams improve responses

PagerDuty uses machine learning to anticipate issues and dramatically accelerate responses, so problems are addressed before they impact customers

Data science during COVID-19: Some reassembly required

Most likely, the assumptions behind your data science model or the patterns in your data did not survive the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s how to address the challenges of model drift

9 reasons to build your web app with the Jamstack

Combining developer-centric deployment tools and best-of-breed serverless offerings has many advantages. Let’s count them

10 steps to automating security in Kubernetes pipelines

DevOps teams don’t need to sacrifice the speed of containerized development if they know what can be automated, why it’s important, and how to do it

Cloud cost optimization during and after COVID-19

Take advantage of these four best practices to keep your public cloud spending in check on an ongoing basis

During COVID-19, wasting 30 percent of cloud spend is not OK

Cloud users expect COVID-19 will drive their cloud use higher, exacerbating the need to optimize cloud spend

How to use the Kubernetes Ingress API

You can greatly expand the capabilities of the Ingress resource by using an Ingress controller like Kong for Kubernetes that uses custom resource definitions and provides many plug-ins

Is your data lake open enough? What to watch out for

Like yesterday’s data warehouses, today’s data lakes threaten to lock us into proprietary formats and systems that restrict innovation and raise costs