In 2012, SoundCloud engineers realized they had a problem. Their existing monitoring solutions were insufficient for their needs. Development teams need real-time, actionable monitoring data to improve Kubernetes deployment uptime, enhance system performance, and boost resource optimization. In other words, they needed a solution to handle the complexity and distributed nature of their cloud applications, […]
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From big organizations to mom and pop shops, everyone is moving to and is affected by the cloud, especially when disaster strikes causing downtime. Downtime is not an option for big organizations or for mom and pop shops. Whether it’s a ransomware attack, a power outage, flood or simply human mistakes, unpredictable events occur. The […]
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In this blog, I will discuss how to authenticate your database instance using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) database authentication. In keeping with AWS’s best practices of “shared responsibility,” the AWS IAM service is a “customer responsibility” layer of security for your data. Using AWS IAM with Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) You […]
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Why container monitoring is critical for modern cloud environments Modern cloud application environments are complex, running across hundreds or even thousands of compute instances. Because of this complexity, modern applications require container monitoring to continuously collect metrics, track potential failures, and gather granular insights into container behavior. So, it’s not a question of whether or […]
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What are nested stacks in CloudFormation? Nested stacks are stacks created as part of other stacks. You create a nested stack within another stack by using the AWS::CloudFormation::Stack resource. As your infrastructure grows, common patterns can emerge in which you declare the same components in multiple templates. Reusing common template patterns using nested stacks is […]
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Are you one of the 73 million developers who build, ship, and maintain their software on GitHub? Most tech companies now use it in their workflows. In this blog, I’ll show you how to use two features to automate your CI/CD pipeline: GitHub Pages and GitHub Actions. What are GitHub Pages? GitHub Pages provide a […]
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What are security groups for pods on Amazon EKS? Security groups are one of the keystone building blocks in any AWS cloud deployment. Security groups are like instance-level network firewalls. Since security groups are associated with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, they offer protection at the ports and protocol access levels. AWS realized […]
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AWS Premier Consulting Partner joins AWS Public Sector Partner Program SAN FRANCISCO, December 8, 2021 — nClouds (www.nclouds.com), a provider of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and DevOps consulting and implementation services, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner and leading Managed Service Provider (MSP), was recognized as the No. 24 MSP on ChannelE2E’s Top 250 Public Cloud […]
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What is observability? Observability is a process that examines the properties of a system. A system is observable if its current state can be determined in a finite time period using the system’s outputs. The meaning of “observability” has changed as development models have evolved. Before cloud computing and DevOps, on-premises data centers were exclusively […]
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What is GitOps The term GitOps was coined by Weaveworks in 2017. GitOps is a logical extension of DevOps. GitOps builds on DevOps with Git as a single source of truth for the whole system. In other words, Git is a secure library repository that holds the best, most complete version of a system’s infrastructure […]
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