Tag: Cloud
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Four steps to managing your cloud logging costs on a budget
Posted on October 14, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
As part of our ongoing series on cost management for observability data in Google Cloud, we're going to share four steps for getting the most out of your logs while on a budget. While we'll focus on optimizing your costs within Google Cloud, we've found that this works with customers with infrastructure and logs on prem and in other clouds as well. By Afrina M, Mary Koes.
Tags cloud learning web-development app-development monitoring analytics
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Google Cloud Next 2023 FinOps product announcements recap
Posted on September 12, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Google Cloud recently announced a number of new FinOps features and enhancements at Google Next '23. These new features and enhancements are designed to help organizations optimize their cloud costs and get the most value from their cloud investment. By Sarah McMullin.
Tags cloud cio management fintech
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AWS EC2 instance types: Challenges and best practices for hosting your applications in AWS
Posted on September 11, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
When it comes to hosting applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the most important decisions you will need to make is which Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type to choose. EC2 instances are virtual machines that allow you to run your applications on AWS. By Christopher Graham.
Tags cloud cio microservices devops app-development
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IPv4 prices: Supply and demand in 2023
Posted on September 1, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
In early 2022 the discount that had been available for large blocks of IPv4 addresses disappeared. For the first time in years, /16 blocks and larger began to sell at an increasing premium. By Q2-2023, small and medium-sized blocks sold for a 30-35% discount to larger ones. By Lee Howard.
Tags open-source cio management miscellaneous cloud
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Cloud portability: How platform engineering pushes past toil
Posted on August 31, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Adopting platform engineering will allow tech organizations to be more adaptable to changes toward in a business direction. One such extreme change is cloud portability, which is not uncommon anymore in today's business but has a significant effect on developer experience. Most companies start their journey with a single cloud provider, embracing the cloud native functionalities that these services offer. They build expertise, write automations and leverage as much of the cloud as they can. By Pravanjan Choudhury.
Tags cio devops app-development servers cloud
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Use of generative AI tools in the workplace demands more security
Posted on August 30, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
Generative AI, a form of machine learning that creates content like text and images in response to natural language requests, is a game-changing technology. From boosting productivity to improving personalization, generative AI tools deliver a string of benefits. By Rachael Shah @f5.com.
Tags ai cloud infosec cio management
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Alibaba cloud named a leader among FaaS platform providers
Posted on August 29, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Functions-As-A-Service Platforms, Q2 2023. By alibabacloud.com.
Tags miscellaneous app-development servers cloud
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Five cloud security predictions for 2023
Posted on August 28, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
COVID's impact still resonates. Remote work, AI, and a turbulent economy have made the future unpredictable, including the future of cloud security. But we still have best practices for you! Let's examine 5 cloud security predictions to be aware of in 2023. By Luke (hakluke) Stephens.
Tags miscellaneous cloud infosec cio web-development
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Learning Rust with a little help from AI
Posted on August 27, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Learning a new programming language can help broaden your software development expertise, open career opportunities, or create fun challenges. However, it can be difficult to decide on one specific approach to learning a new language. By Michael Friedrich.
Tags ai programming app-development cloud web-development
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Distributed transactions at Scale in Amazon DynamoDB
Posted on August 26, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
It is great to see DynamoDB, and AWS in general, is publishing/sharing more widely than before. A killer feature of DynamoDB is predictability at any scale. Aligned with this predictability tenet, when adding transactions to DynamoDB, the first and primary constraint was to preserve the predictable high performance of single-key reads/writes at any scale. By Murat Demirbas.
Tags aws distributed apis app-development cloud nodejs
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Google BigQuery ETL: 11 best practices for high performance
Posted on August 22, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Google BigQuery – a fully managed Cloud Data Warehouse for analytics from Google Cloud Platform (GCP), is one of the most popular Cloud-based analytics solutions. Due to its unique architecture and seamless integration with other services from GCP, there are certain best practices to be considered while configuring Google BigQuery ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) & migrating data to BigQuery. By Faisal K K.
Tags gcp cloud big-data cio data-science
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Cloud governance framework: How to develop, implement and follow one
Posted on August 21, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
For many organisations, cloud computing has become the backbone of modern business operations. And with this backbone comes the need for policies, processes, and controls to ensure the secure and efficient management of cloud resources and services. You need a new friend: allow us to introduce cloud governance. By Ancoris Says.
Tags cloud software learning management infosec