Logz.io Unveils Azure Open Source ELK Monitoring Solution
Needless to say, DevOps as a practice is largely fueled by open source. The growth and popularity of open source tools such as Elasticsearch, Kubernetes and others are driven largely by the increased flexibility, innovation and familiarity of options. While this isn’t news for developers (65% of which are active open source contributors), leading cloud […]
APN Advanced Tier Partner Tricentis to Present on AWS Cloud Load Testing at SAP Sapphire
Tricentis, the cloud’s #1 Continuous Testing Platform, announced today they will be presenting their Cloud Load Testing solution at the AWS booth at SAP SAPPHIRE NOW on Wednesday, May 8, 5:30 PM. This strategic new offering is now available on the AWS Solution Space. “Modern SAP applications, powered by S/4HANA and Fiori 2.0, involve many highly-distributed […]
Instana Automatic APM Now Available in Amazon AWS Marketplace
AWS Users Can Seamlessly Install and Purchase Automatic Application Monitoring and Tracing SAN FRANCISCO AND SOLINGEN, GERMANY – APRIL 19, 2019 Instana, the leading provider of Automatic Application Monitoring (APM) solutions for cloud-native applications, today announced that its automatic APM solution is available for purchase in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. AWS subscribers can now acquire Instana […]
How to Design DevSecOps Compliance Processes to Free Up Developer Resources
Anything that gets rolled out quickly in the technological world is a major step forward—as long as it doesn’t compromise security. DevSecOps is able to provide compliance processes far more effectively than before, and without jeopardizing security while also freeing up developer resources. How do you direct your IT team to keep your applications and […]
SoulCycle Flexes Its Muscles with DevOps and CI/CD
When SoulCycle wanted to improve application development and deployment, including improving services for customers across its 80-plus indoor cycling centers in the United States and Canada, the company turned to Mark Sost, a veteran developer and engineer who worked at several media companies, including Hearst. Over the last two-plus years, Sost, who now holds the […]
Spot Instances on Black Friday: A Case Study
Businesses made the right choice using spot instances for Black Friday Black Friday is the unofficial kickoff to the holiday shopping season, when retailers announce exciting deals to attract as many customers as they can into their stores. With online shopping surging in recent years, e-commerce and AdTech businesses are also participating in Black Friday […]
In AI Initiatives and Hybrid Clouds We Trust
The 2019 State of the Union Address, delivered Feb. 5, was light on anything tech-related. But just a week later, Feb. 11, technology was the focus of an executive order that launched The American Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative. Why do we need a national AI initiative, and what does it have to do with DevOps? […]
DevOps Chat: Cloud Migration with nClouds’ JT Giri
Moving to the cloud is becoming a must for many companies if they want to grow beyond their current footprint and be more innovative. But for many companies—especially those in the SMB space—their transition to the cloud is hindered by a lack of knowledge and experience, which often results in difficult migrations that sometimes just […]
The Time for Time Series Data
More than four years ago, we launched InfluxDB, an open source time series platform. In the years since, time series technology has become increasingly popular; according to DB-Engines, over the last 24 months time series has been the fastest growing database category. This popularity is fueled by the “sensorification” of the physical world (i.e., IoT) […]
Understanding Pillar 1 of AWS’ Well-Architected Framework
AWS’ Well-Architected Framework provides a wealth of incredibly valuable best practices and guidelines structured around five distinct pillars that more cloud-native organizations would do well to heed. The first of these pillars, Operational Excellence, recommends a number of particularly valuable techniques. However, successfully adopting the design principles and practices within Pillar No. 1 requires a […]
AWS Finally Embraces On-Premises IT
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced this week it will make available instances of its IT infrastructure available in on-premises IT environments, which it will then manage on behalf of customers. The announcement was made at its AWS re:Invent 2018 conference. AWS CEO Andy Jassy said AWS Outposts platforms, scheduled to be available in 2019, will […]
Trend Micro Demonstrates Strength of Relationship with Amazon Web Services Through Integrated Technology, Channel and Diversity Programs
DALLAS – November 29, 2018 –Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, today demonstrated the strength of its relationship with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) through integration with technology, the channel and workforce diversity. “A strong alignment with AWS has contributed to businesses increasingly choosing Trend Micro to protect […]
Mphasis Acquires Stelligent, the DevOps Automation Services Specialist in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ecosystem
Mphasis Stelligent boosts Mphasis’ end-to-end capabilities in public cloud with a focus on DevOps and Containerization; further augmenting its managed services capabilities Mphasis Stelligent combines best-in-class DevOps and DevSecOps solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and delivery at scale with customer-centric digital transformation and hyper-personalization to enterprise clients New York / Bangalore, November 8, 2018 […]
VMware Extends Scope of Alliance with IBM
On the heels of IBM announcing its intent to acquire Red Hat, VMware announced at the VMworld Europe 2018 conference this week an extension of its longstanding cloud alliance with IBM. Red Hat competes directly with VMware; yet, there are also more than 1,600 customers running VMware on the IBM cloud. Ajay Patel, senior vice […]
Pivotal Software Extends Development Platform Reach
Pivotal Software announced an expansion of its implementation of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment in addition to extending its support for Kubernetes to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. At its SpringOne Platform 2018 conference, Pivotal revealed that Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) can now extend a single instance of its distribution of the […]
Best Practices for Your SaaS Laravel Application on AWS
It is not easy to subsist in a modern cloud ecosystem. However, there are solid principles that will help you to build a perfect AWS architecture for your Laravel application, including the 12-factor methodology, design applications with a stateless approach and decoupling service components. I’m sure you are adopting many of these principles already. However, […]
Using Laravel and AWS: What You Need to Know
Most likely, you have heard about and Laravel, the open source PHP framework, and you might be planning to go to the next level to modernize your PHP Laravel application. AWS offers a number of features to help organizations scale to support millions of users, not to mention the agility and cost benefits associated with […]
DevOps 2.0: A New Evolution of Serverless Cloud Architecture
Science teaches us to formulate hypotheses and test them experimentally to advance systematically. While this sounds logical, DevOps—and software architecture in particular—does not follow this approach because current tools make this too cumbersome. So, architecture choices are frequently made by HiPPO (highest paid person’s opinion). However, the rate of development, especially in the serverless or […]
Hosting Scalable WordPress on AWS
Do you own or manage a WordPress site? Is it complex, with a lot of traffic? I’m going to show you the ideal architecture to host a highly available and scalable WordPress site on AWS. This blog is intended to show a distributed architecture in AWS for WordPress CMS websites. You will be able to […]
Evaluating a Multi-Cloud Strategy: The Pros and Cons
First off, let’s define multi-cloud. Clearly, we’re talking about using one or more clouds, but clouds come in different flavors. For example, multi-cloud incorporates the idea of hybrid cloud—a mix of public and private clouds. But multi-cloud can also mean two or more public clouds or two or more private clouds. So, why is this […]
What Can the Cloud Do for DevOps?
The cloud has enabled DevOps to grow and expand well beyond traditional boundaries set forth by on-premises production environments. With Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other cloud services providers, DevOps devices are intended to speed advancement by empowering engineers to change, test and push code in a computerized design. This enables organizations to create and […]
Why You Need Chaos Engineered into Your Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
Nearly a decade ago, I began working at Amazon as an engineer. Cloud technology was just starting to revolutionize how companies launch applications, and early adopters were seeing the benefits of not having to purchase, provision and manage their own hardware. On the flip side, larger companies (especially those that store sensitive information) were still […]
5 Reasons AWS Service Catalog is Sexy for DevOps and Cloud
Ok, so you’re probably more excited about topics such as microservices and containers right now, but bear with me. AWS Service Catalog is becoming increasingly necessary as cloud infrastructure evolves, allowing IT and developers to share pre-approved services, which helps tear down silos and encourage DevOps-related practices. If you’re not familiar with Service Catalog, it […]