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Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service: A Force Multiplier for Your Tech Team

6 minute read | November 20, 2024

Kubernetes revolutionized container orchestration, but managing it is still a complex and time-consuming process. That’s why Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service offerings have...

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4 minute read

| January 6, 2017

How to Leverage AWS Lambda for DevOps Backup and Recovery

Lost data can mean lost business, so how can you make sure the cloud doesn’t bring you down? By keeping close tabs on what information has changed, who changed it and when.... Read More

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4 minute read

| December 28, 2016

Bridging the Chasm: Exceptional Application Performance Requires Dev Insight and Ops Weigh-In

Picture this– The operations team has spent months developing a hard-won understanding of technical bottlenecks and application-specific performance issues only to discover... Read More

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5 minute read

| December 5, 2016

Don’t Let the Cloud Bring You Down: The Importance of Cloud Server Backups

We’re all familiar with the most common threat vector – a hacker or other bad actor gains access to your cloud infrastructure to exploit system vulnerabilities. A less talked... Read More

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4 minute read

| September 8, 2016

Monitoring and Logging

I’ve had a lot of arguments about monitoring and logging during my career in operations. Many of these arguments were centered around the idea that I wanted to monitor and... Read More

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7 minute read

| July 18, 2016

Migrating from Heroku to Kubernetes on AWS

Leveraging a Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a great way to quickly build, innovate, and deploy a new product or service. By leveraging a PaaS vendor’s servers, load... Read More

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14 minute read

| April 3, 2016

Build a serverless URL shortener with AWS Lambda and API Gateway services

I’ve had my eye on Amazon’sLambdaandAPI Gatewayservices for a few months. Running a web application without the costs or headaches of maintaining servers is attractive.... Read More