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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. Depending on the complexity and relationship of topologies, each blog will contain 1 or 2 topologies.

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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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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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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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The Good and the Bad of the Elasticsearch Search and Analytics Engine

Altexsoft

What if we told you that one of the world’s most powerful search and analytics engines started with the humble goal of organizing a culinary enthusiast’s growing list of recipes? To help her, Banon developed a search engine for her recipe collection. Analysis of logs, metrics, and security events.

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What Is a Telemetry Pipeline?

Honeycomb

In a simple deployment, an application will emit spans, metrics, and logs which will be sent to api.honeycomb.io This also adds the blue lines, which denote metrics data. The metrics are periodically emitted from applications that don’t contribute to traces, such as a database. and show up in charts.

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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

Altexsoft

Companies often take infrastructure engineers for sysadmins, network designers, or database administrators. What is an infrastructure engineer? (80, The hardware layer includes everything you can touch — servers, data centers, storage devices, and personal computers. Cloud infrastructure engineer. How is it possible?