With many open-source and paid tools available to do the job, it can be relatively straightforward to make sure that your systems are monitored properly. But, how does a team make sure that these systems are working as described, and alert the team effectively that there’s a problem with the system that is supposed to be keeping an eye on things? By Matt Saunders With many open-source and paid tools available to do the job, it can be relatively straightforward to make sure that your systems are monitored properly. But, how does a team make sure that these systems are working as described, and alert the team effectively that there’s a problem with the system that is supposed to be keeping an eye on things? By Matt SaundersRead More
Mammoths Stumping in the Cloud Era: Meeting EU Regulations by Being Cloud Native and Cloud Agnostic
Financial institutions are famous for their conservative approach in multiple areas, technology being no exception. Many of them are still running mainframe solutions built a long time ago. But together with times, the banks are changing to: at KubeConEU mBank, a polish bank, showed how it managed to marry Cloud Native and Cloud Agnotisc principles to satisfy also the EU regulation in the field. By Olimpiu Pop Financial institutions are famous for their conservative approach in multiple areas, technology being no exception. Many of them are still running mainframe solutions built a long time ago. But together with times, the banks are changing to: at KubeConEU mBank, a polish bank, showed how it managed to marry Cloud Native and Cloud Agnotisc principles to satisfy also the EU regulation in the field. By Olimpiu PopRead More
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Cloud applications promise high availability and accessibility to its users, but for that to be achieved a disaster recovery plan is essential. The team behind InfluxDB, shared at KubeConEU22 their lessons learned from battle testing their disaster recovery strategy on the day when they deleted the production. By Olimpiu Pop Cloud applications promise high availability and accessibility to its users, but for that to be achieved a disaster recovery plan is essential. The team behind InfluxDB, shared at KubeConEU22 their lessons learned from battle testing their disaster recovery strategy on the day when they deleted the production. By Olimpiu PopRead More
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Cloud applications promise high availability and accessibility to its users, but for that to be achieved a disaster recovery plan is essential. The team behind InfluxDB, shared at KubeConEU22 their lessons learned from battle testing their disaster recovery strategy on the day when they deleted the production. By Olimpiu Pop Cloud applications promise high availability and accessibility to its users, but for that to be achieved a disaster recovery plan is essential. The team behind InfluxDB, shared at KubeConEU22 their lessons learned from battle testing their disaster recovery strategy on the day when they deleted the production. By Olimpiu PopRead More
