How Seamless Uptime Management Ensures Operational Peace of Mind
Cloud computing has become the default way for deploying applications or services. Cloud computing offers companies, enterprises and startups the ability to avoid, or minimize, spending while leveraging the flexible nature of the cloud infrastructure to meet growing business needs. A growing challenge for applications is obtaining optimal availability at all times. Today, cloud based […]
How Runbook Automation can Simplify CloudOps Use
.Organizations in every industry continue their transition to cloud services, and while this may be a step forward in general, it does bring with it its own unique set of challenges. Cloud use, and in particular CloudOps, relies on a complex and intricate infrastructure which is difficult to manage and maintain, and it’s a critical […]
A Day in the Life of a NOC Engineer
While your regular job may allow you to make your snooze button your best friend, what would you say to a job that requires 6-8-hour shifts (probably night shifts too) and demands that you be on call 24/7? Welcome to the life of a NOC engineer. What is NOC Engineer? A NOC (network operation center) […]
Controllability and Observability: A Way to Reduce Tension in Production Teams
What Can Be Done to Support NOC Engineers and SRE Work-Life Balance? Most cloud applications today require a handful of teams working in the background 24/7 to operate the application’s support infrastructure. Without these teams, customers may face troubles along the way which are typically picked up by the NOC engineers and technicians behind the […]
How to Seamlessly Switch AWS Partners
Working with the right AWS provider can make or break a company, but many companies discover that after a few years, what was once a great fit just doesn’t work anymore. Over time, your needs change, and the provider you’ve been with for years might not be able to provide what you need. Alternatively, maybe […]
A Lesson for Every Startup from Bitcoin’s 2017 Outage
Paying the Price for an Unavailable Service: The Case of Coinbase In December 2017, significant declines were recorded on the exchange rate of the world’s most popular digital currency—Bitcoin. Investors who wanted to sell their currencies quickly, for fear of further declines, turned to the biggest cryptocurrency stock exchange, known as Coinbase. At Coinbase, they […]
Building a Successful Uptime Management Strategy
Managing a cloud system properly entails numerous tasks (performance monitoring, response times, latency, uptime management, security, compliance, and disaster recovery). Together, these tasks form a comprehensive holistic strategy that embraces and accounts for all potential scenarios. Especially in today’s intensive business landscape, running cloud operations (NOC) 24/7 has become mandatory together with maintaining a high […]
Observability’s Newfound Popularity
In a recent Meetup event, DevOps professionals, operations professionals, and various executives gathered together at MoovingOn’s “Achieving Observability Meet Up” hosted on the 28th floor at AWS in Tel Aviv. The venue was buzzing with lectures, panel discussions, and workshops all surrounding the idea of Observability Systems. Speakers representing AWS, Coralogix, BOLT, and MoovingOn shared […]
אופרציה מוצלחת 24/7? זה לא בשמיים
בשנים האחרונות, חברות SaaS מגלות מחדש את עולם ה-NOC. למעשה, חברות כאלה הופכות תלויות יותר ויותר ב-NOC איכותי לצורך התייעלות וצמיחה, וזה לא מפתיע, לנוכח אופי פעילותן. שלא כמו בחברות הזנק “קלאסיות” המתמקדות בפיתוח, בחברות SaaS האופרציה השוטפת והשירות למשתמשים ממלאים תפקיד מכריע. כמו כן, תקלות בלתי צפויות ואתגרים טכנולוגיים חדשים צצים ללא הרף בעולם […]
עושים סדר בעולם הניטור
מתי משתמשים ב-Grafana ולמה כדאי להשקיע בניטור תשתיתי? בואו להכיר את כל הרכיבים של תחום הניטור בפיתוח מודרני תחום כלי הניטור והניתוח לשלבי הפיתוח וה-DevOps עובר בשנים האחרונות פריחה אמיתית. בעבר צרכי הארגון מבחינת ניטור היו מתמקדים במשאבי IT, שהיו נמצאים פיזית בארגון, והמידע כלל בעיקר מעקב אחרי ניצול שטח אחסון, משאבי רשת וכדומה. המעבר לשירותי ענן, ביחד […]