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Network topologies – A series: Part 1

Xebia

This series is typically useful for cloud architects and cloud engineers, who seek some validation on possible topologies. This setup will adopt the usage of cloud load balancing, auto scaling and managed SSL certificates. This MIG will act as the backend service for our load balancer.

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Moving to the Cloud: Exploring the API Gateway to Success

Daniel Bryant

Mercedes-Benz collects roughly nine terabytes of traffic from requests in a day” Nashon Steffen Staff Infrastructure Development Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Adopting cloud native: Changes, challenges, and choices Adopting cloud technologies brings many benefits but also introduces new challenges.

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What Is Observability? Key Components and Best Practices

Honeycomb

We will delve into observability’s key components, how observability differs from monitoring, observability’s benefits and challenges, and even go over how to implement observability with engineering teams. Observability starts by collecting system telemetry data, such as logs, metrics, and traces.

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Curbing Connection Churn in Zuul

Netflix Tech

It seems like a minor change, but it had to be seamlessly integrated into our existing metrics and connection bookkeeping. We had discussed subsetting many times over the years, but there was concern about disrupting load balancing with the algorithms available. Subsetting Success The results were outstanding.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Not the plan I didn’t join Honeycomb with the goal of becoming an engineering executive.

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Announcing Complete Azure Observability for Kentik Cloud

Kentik

It includes rich metrics for understanding the volume, path, business context, and performance of flows traveling through Azure network infrastructure. For example, Express Route metrics include data about inbound and outbound dropped packets. It also provides custom alerts and synthetic testing for each environment, including Azure.

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Practical Steps for Enhancing Reliability in Cloud Networks - Part I

Kentik

When evaluating solutions, whether to internal problems or those of our customers, I like to keep the core metrics fairly simple: will this reduce costs, increase performance, or improve the network’s reliability? More than anything, reliability becomes the principal challenge for network engineers working in and with the cloud.

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