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4 minute read

| January 29, 2020

Optimizing Development Operations to Overcome Employee Turnover

When the DevOps Director leaves your company, they take their knowledge of your development operations infrastructure with them. If your DevOps infrastructure is not... Read More

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7 minute read

| January 23, 2020

Introducing Astro: Manage Datadog Monitors in Kubernetes Deployments for Better Productivity and Cluster Performance

“Astro takes advantage of new Kubernetes-native patterns to help engineers declaratively manage Datadog monitors with the agility to match the ephemeral nature of these... Read More

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3 minute read

| January 2, 2020

Tier Two Monitoring for Application Infrastructure

As long as there has been software running on a server, there has been some kind of monitoring to make sure it was running. Even if the first versions were just a ping... Read More

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4 minute read

| December 31, 2019

How Fairwinds Insights Helps You Save on Cloud Costs

One reason container technology has surpassed virtual machines is that it is possible to put more containers on a host, reducing your overall number of compute instances, and... Read More

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4 minute read

| December 20, 2019

Container Orchestration Essentials

So you've decided Kubernetes as a container orchestration system is the right move for your application. Congratulations and welcome. You've made the right decision and... Read More

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5 minute read

| December 18, 2019

Cluster Health Checkup: Reliability - Part Two

As I mentioned in part one, site reliability engineers care a great deal about reliability in Kubernetes environments. In most cases, reliability is synonymous with stability... Read More

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3 minute read

| December 17, 2019

Cluster Health Checkup: Reliability

A Site Reliability Engineer cares a lot about reliability in a Kubernetes environment, as you might have guessed from the job title. Reliability is important to a software... Read More

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5 minute read

| December 12, 2019

How-to Address Kubernetes Cluster Security

Building a working, reliable Kubernetes cluster is hard. Building it securely is even harder. Often the easiest way to get things working is to ignore security... Read More

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3 minute read

| December 10, 2019

What Kubernetes and Application Security have in Common

For the past eight years, I’ve split my time helping enterprises build application security programs and developing security products that make it easier for developers and... Read More

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8 minute read

| December 6, 2019

Running stateful application workloads in Kubernetes

One of the most common questions we get from clients and prospective clients is, "Will you run our database in Kubernetes"? Typically our answer is "No, and you probably... Read More

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5 minute read

| November 26, 2019

How Kubernetes Helps E-Commerce Companies Stay Profitable on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Running a successful Black Friday and Cyber Monday operation can be a major win for retail and e-commerce companies. For some businesses, the number of transactions generated... Read More

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2 minute read

| November 12, 2019

Fairwinds Insights Public Beta Program Announced

We’re excited to announce that Fairwinds Insights, our new SaaS platform, has launched a free public beta program! Fairwinds Insights is an Open Source as a Service platform... Read More

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