Software Engineering
New Relic Introduces Low-Overhead Kubernetes Monitoring
New Relic (NYSE: NEWR), the observability company, announced a series of product innovations and enhancements at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 to help millions of engineers take a daily, data-driven approach to Kubernetes observability. New Relic re-architected its Kubernetes integration to reduce the overhead associated with monitoring Kubernetes environments with an improved memory footprint, flexible scraping …
Adopting FinOps Tool For Pod-Level Kubernetes Cost Management
Cost optimization is a growing concern for organizations rapidly moving towards open-source and cloud-native projects based on Kubernetes. While flexibility remains one of the key strengths of Kubernetes, it often leads to excessive spending, due to overprovisioning of workload resources. The primary challenge with cost projection and control in a Kubernetes cost management ecosystem is …
As Kubernetes Becomes Ubiquitous, VMware Aims To Solve New Challenges
You can tell the maturity of something by its challenges. For example, the problems of a 27-year-old are different from those of a 47-year-old. In case it’s not clear, this is my attempt at making a relatable analogy to the maturity of Kubernetes. Though, it might be more accurate to say Kubernetes has reached a …
Importance Of Baremetal For Kubernetes Framework
Kubernetes never existed without Baremetals !! If we say that, it would not be incorrect for enterprises at all. It is of no surprise that some of the personas have not been able to realize that fact. Not that, they need to but knowledge is the currency. And, our intention here is to explain just …
New Relic Launches Observability Add-On For Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
New Relic (NYSE: NEWR), the observability company, today announced expanded support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), with an add-on for Amazon EKS Blueprints that automates and standardizes how engineers add observability instrumentation to software deployed on Kubernetes. The new add-on deploys New Relic’s Kubernetes observability components — including infrastructure agents, Kube events, logging, auto-telemetry …
Using Memorystore For Redis To Cache Your Django Applications
As you start scaling up your serverless applications, caching is one of elements that can greatly improve your site’s performance and responsiveness. With the release of Django 4.0, Redis is now a core supported caching backend. Redis is available as part of Memorystore, Google Cloud’s managed in-memory data store. For Django deployments hosted on Cloud …
Kubernetes Is Here To Stay: Here’s Why
Back for a fourth year, our annual State of Kubernetes survey shows ongoing momentum with Kubernetes adoption. Respondents expressed an easing of most challenges, aside from security. Here are four highlights from this year’s survey: Kubernetes is improving operations concerns like resource utilization and spending, cloud migrations, and application upgrades. However, Kubernetes remains a challenge for application …
31 Lessons Learned From 10,000 Hours of Programming
“The key to achieving world-class expertise in any skill, is to a large extent, a matter of practicing the correct way, for a total of around 10,000 hours” — Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers. Well, I’m certainly not a world-class expert, but I have put my 10,000 hours of deliberate practice into programming. Where did I …
Announcing Serverless Spark Components For Vertex AI Pipelines
Developers and ML engineers face a variety of challenges when it comes to operationalizing Spark ML workloads. One set of challenges may come in the form of infrastructure concerns, for example, how to provision infrastructure clusters in advance, how to ensure that there are enough resources to run different kinds of tasks like data preparation, …
Calling Google APIs From Serverless (Part I: Cloud APIs)
Introduction As Google Cloud users, you may already be familiar with Google App Engine, Cloud Functions, or Cloud Run, our serverless platforms allowing technical practitioners to focus on building solutions, not what they run on. Google as a whole, has many divisions which provide developer tools beyond these platforms, so a common question which arises …