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The State of Observability 2021 from @VMware confirms the explosion of #cloud #technologies that must be monitored #APM

The State of Observability 2021 from @VMware confirms the explosion of #cloud #technologies that must be monitored #APM | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

We surveyed hundreds of DevOps practitioners about their monitoring and observability challenges for delivering modern cloud applications. We summarized our findings in the State of Observability 2021 report.

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WHY IT MATTERS: an interesting survey from VMware provides insights into the thousands of technology solutions that must be monitored when you deploy on cloud computing environments.

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There is an explosion of infrastructure performance monitoring tools - here Grafana vs. New Relic from @MetricFire #API #APM #ITIM #Logs

There is an explosion of infrastructure performance monitoring tools - here Grafana vs. New Relic from @MetricFire #API #APM #ITIM #Logs | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Compare Grafana and New Relic on market position, pricing, and core strengths.

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WHY IT MATTERS: a great tool comparison reference for monitoring tools.

https://www.metricfire.com/blog/category/comparisons/ 

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2021 Gartner Market Guide for IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools helps make sense of #ITIM and #APM tools

2021 Gartner Market Guide for IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools helps make sense of #ITIM and #APM tools | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

IT infrastructure monitoring (ITIM) tools help tackle these new challenges and offer visibility across hybrid infrastructures and emerging architectures. ITIM tools capture health and resource utilization of IT systems — providing real-time insight.
Use this Market Guide to:
- Learn why organizations need to adapt to hybrid, modular, dynamic and cloud-based environments.
- Learn how I&O leaders can best improve business outcomes.
Compare various IT infrastructure monitoring tool vendors.

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WHY IT MATTERS: cloud computing often means relying on cloud platform or infrastructure distributed across multiple servers and systems. This guide helps make sense of the ITIM and APM solutions on the market and choose the best for you.

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Integration of #saas solutions in #martech is easier than ever - but I fear it may lead to an explosion of solutions and a master data problem @chiefmartec

Integration of #saas solutions in #martech is easier than ever - but I fear it may lead to an explosion of solutions and a master data problem @chiefmartec | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Today, HubSpot announced a milestone of more than 1,000 integrated apps featured in the app marketplace for its CRM platform. The call to better integrate martech is being heard. As you may know, I joined HubSpot a little over four years ago to help grow its platform ecosystem. So I'm delighted to see this momentum build. And I feel like it's still in the early stages of what it will become. A huge 'thank you'

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WHY IT MATTERS: so true, integration should become the primary focus when choosing a product. Every vendor now has a marketplace of pre-built integrations (hubspot has 1000+ it seems). So, integration is easy.

 

But there are caveats: where is the master data if you have multiple solutions? I fear this post does not provide an answer for this, I find, is the major long-term issue.

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AWS Data Lakes: Architecture Examples and Diagrams #referenceArchitecture via @upSolver #AWS #BI

AWS Data Lakes: Architecture Examples and Diagrams #referenceArchitecture via @upSolver #AWS #BI | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

This frequently-updated page contains real-life examples and diagrams from Upsolver customers who are using AWS data lakes. While the Upsolver platform itself is a key component in all of these architectures, we hope even non-customers can learn from these examples when it comes to the use cases, considerations, and design patterns that go into a typical cloud data lake.

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WHY IT MATTERS: you don't see this often these days. A useful compilation of data lake reference architectures - of coursed biased by software vendor upsolver and AWS, but still very useful - with links to the original engineering blogs. Bravo!

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7 Best Practices for High-performance #DataLakes

7 Best Practices for High-performance #DataLakes | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

In this article, we’ll present seven of the key best practices you should adhere to when designing, implementing and operationalizing your data lake. These are things that will mostly be automatically implemented if you’re using Upsolver, but if you’re building your data lake ‘manually’ you’ll need to ensure they’re done correctly if you want to get the most value out of your data lake architecture.
While we will mostly be referring to Amazon S3 as the storage layer, these best practices would also apply for a data lake built on a different cloud or using Hadoop on-premise.

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WHY IT MATTERS: an obviously biased post form upsolver that nonetheless highlights interesting optimizations that you still need to perform when building data lakes.

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Analyzing Performance and Cost of Large-Scale Data Processing with AWS Lambda shows the power of #serverless #cloudComputing: 259TB of data processed @ 2M records/second for only 162$ #amazing

Analyzing Performance and Cost of Large-Scale Data Processing with AWS Lambda shows the power of #serverless #cloudComputing: 259TB of data processed @ 2M records/second for only 162$ #amazing | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

There are many tools available for doing large-scale data analysis, and picking the right one for a given job is critical. Here, we take an in-depth analysis of the architecture and performance characteristics of a completely serverless data processing platform. While the approach isn’t applicable for every use case, it has a very low total cost of ownership (TCO) and because AWS Lambda allows us to run arbitrary code easily, this approach provides the flexibility to handle non-standard data formats easily.

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WHY IT MATTERS: cloud computing enables truly amazing things. Case in point this AWS case study where 259TB of data was processed for only 162$. The blog post presents the problema and high level description of the solution. Truly amazing.

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle #API Management highlights maturity in the field with older platforms as leaders #technology #cloud

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle #API Management highlights maturity in the field with older platforms as leaders #technology #cloud | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Demand for APIs, fueled by new business models, application development trends and the urgency of modernization, is directing software engineering leaders to the diverse, evolving market for full life cycle API management products. This research assesses 17 vendors to help you make the right choice.

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WHY IT MATTERS: as always, take the quadrant with a huge grain of salt - feels like Gartner is creating quadrants to highlight one solution as a leader, and not to really provide guidance, but I digress... - and start your reading at the with the context and market overview. I find interesting that old solutions (Apigee, IBM, mulesoft) manage to remain in the top corner.

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Introducing the Cloud Native Landscape 2.0 and the trail map to guide newbies towards becoming cloud native

Introducing the Cloud Native Landscape 2.0 and the trail map to guide newbies towards becoming cloud native | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

The CNCF Cloud Native Landscape Project is intended to be a resource map to help enterprises and developers through the previously uncharted terrain of cloud native technologies.

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WHY IT MATTERS: look here for the trial map to guide newbies towards adoption cloud native technologies.

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CNCF landscape guide si the starting point to understand the landscape categories and its organization #readMeFirst

CNCF landscape guide si the starting point to understand the landscape categories and its organization #readMeFirst | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

In this guide, we’ll break this mammoth landscape down and provide a high-level overview of its layers, columns, and categories.

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WHY IT MATTERS: the CNCF guide is the must read starting point to understand the CNCF landscape. Read me first.

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#Cloud Native Interactive Landscape at CNCF.io at the reference for all cloud technologies and solutions HT @CloudOps for the discovery

#Cloud Native Interactive Landscape at CNCF.io at the reference for all cloud technologies and solutions HT @CloudOps for the discovery | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

The cloud native landscape (pngpdf), serverless landscape (pngpdf), and member landscape (pngpdf) are dynamically generated from github repositories.

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WHY IT MATTERS: a super detailed reference for all technologies and solutions for anyone that needs to be cloud native.

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look ma, no hands! How to process half a million records without any servers on AWS #EDA

look ma, no hands! How to process half a million records without any servers on AWS #EDA | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

In this article, I’ll walk you through the architecture of processing big records files within AWS services.

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WHY IT MATTERS: this short example shows how far we've come with serverless and event-drive architectures in the cloud, enabling complex processing as a pipeline of small operations. For old dudes like me this is a throwback to the command line pipelines we used to make in Un*x way back when. It makes for very resilient solutions, once you debug the flow. Should be used more often.

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Brush up on #buzzword compliance: The top #technology #trends via @McKinsey

Brush up on #buzzword compliance: The top #technology #trends via @McKinsey | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Which technology trends have the most momentum in an accelerating world? We ranked the top cross-industry trends that matter most for companies and executives.

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WHY IT MATTERS: a good overview, well presented of tech trends for executives. Beware: for long-term strategy discussions only!

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The Cloud Paradox: #cloudComputing flexibility is a tax that enables #startups to grow fast and agile, but when they become large enough, that same "tax" amputates *billions* in market value #mustRead

The Cloud Paradox: #cloudComputing flexibility is a tax that enables #startups to grow fast and agile, but when they become large enough, that same "tax" amputates *billions* in market value #mustRead | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

There is no doubt that the cloud is one of the most significant platform shifts in the history of computing. Now, there is a growing awareness of the long-term cost implications of cloud. As the cost of cloud starts to contribute significantly to the total cost of revenue (COR) or cost of goods sold (COGS), some companies have taken the dramatic step of “repatriating” the majority of workloads (as in the example of Dropbox) or in other cases adopting a hybrid approach (as with CrowdStrike and Zscaler). Those who have done this have reported significant cost savings: In 2017, Dropbox detailed in its S-1 a whopping $75M in cumulative savings over the two years prior to IPO due to their infrastructure optimization overhaul, the majority of which entailed repatriating workloads from public cloud.

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WHY IT MATTERS: this article explores the cost of cloud computing for large SaaS companies that rely on cloud computing to run and operate their business. The basic argument is that cloud computing is amputating Billions from the market value of those large organizations. It should be read by every software engineer in every corporation and the proposed solutions implemented rapidly.

 

This statement summarizes the post best: "For a new startup or a new project, the cloud is the obvious choice. And it is certainly worth paying even a moderate “flexibility tax” for the nimbleness the cloud provides. The problem is, for large companies — including startups as they reach scale — that tax equates to hundreds of billions of dollars of equity value in many cases… and is levied well after the companies have already, deeply committed themselves to the cloud (and are often too entrenched to extricate themselves)."

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Amazed the #CloudComputing remains a question on some #CIOs mind - maybe this @McKinsey analysis of the trillion-dollar opportunity will convince the most reluctant

Amazed the #CloudComputing remains a question on some #CIOs mind - maybe this @McKinsey analysis of the trillion-dollar opportunity will convince the most reluctant | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Companies should explore seven specific drivers to assess where the value lies in cloud. As companies assess the opportunities enabled by cloud, a detailed review of the sources of value can pinpoint where they need to focus their attention, people, and resources. Across the three dimensions, seven drivers of value can collectively generate more than $1 trillion in value.

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WHY IT MATTERS: the opportunity of cloud computing remains whole as per this analysis from McKinsey. One chart of the benefits should convince the most reluctant CIOs that cloud is a good thing.

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Large #digital #technology projects often bust their budget by 200% but #agile #cloud #servicesArchitecture can help keep things on track says @McKinsey #makesSense

Large #digital #technology projects often bust their budget by 200% but #agile #cloud #servicesArchitecture can help keep things on track says @McKinsey #makesSense | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

However, an unwillingness to admit—or the inability to realize—that the issues are more complex and require more work than anticipated means that problems continue and often get worse. The research is quite clear on this point. Early cost and schedule overruns end up, on average, much worse in most programs, often costing twice as much as anticipated—and that’s despite the interventions of program leaders (see Exhibit 2 for an example analysis).

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WHY IT MATTERS: this post highlights 6 key elements of successful technology projects. They include agile, cloud and service architecture. No surprise. What is interesting is that they can even prevent projects from busting their budget by 200%, which seems to be the "track record of comparable programs" according to McKinsey... #sad

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AWS and Azure #cloudComputing enable Single Sign-On between the 2 environments #oneSmallStepForMan

AWS and Azure #cloudComputing enable Single Sign-On between the 2 environments #oneSmallStepForMan | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

The next evolution of AWS Single Sign-On enables enterprises that use Azure AD to leverage their existing identity store with AWS Single Sign-On. Additionally, automatic synchronization of user identities, and groups, from Azure AD is also supported.

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WHY IT MATTERS: this is huge for inter-system operability and improved management and user experience. It is now possible to single sign-on between Azure and AWS cloud computing platforms. This is a big deal for us geeks... ;-)

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Gartner report highlights different ways to React to the Impact of the Cloud on IT Operations Monitoring taking into account the partial visibility and control of #privateCloud, #IaaS, #PaaS & #SaaS

Gartner report highlights different ways to React to the Impact of the Cloud on IT Operations Monitoring taking into account the partial visibility and control of #privateCloud, #IaaS, #PaaS & #SaaS | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

IT operations teams struggle to maintain service quality when they apply legacy approaches to monitoring. Infrastructure and operations leaders responsible for monitoring should take the steps outlined here to increase their effectiveness and limit their exposure to challenges raised by the cloud.

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WHY IT MATTERS: cloud computing has moved infrastructure to the cloud, limiting visibility and control of IT teams on key components of the infrastructure that may be required to monitor and troubleshoot. This report from Gartner highlights the different solutions and skills required to cover cloud computing solutions from private cloud to SaaS.

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Evolution of #CloudComputing includes #fogComputing as #InternetOfThings proliferate - see this short video intro #IOT via @jssprenger

What is fog computing, and why is it necessary? This 2-minute video provides a quick overview and introduction.

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WHY IT MATTERS: always good to stay abreast of the latest buzzword... ;-)

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