Managing Container Data Using Docker Data Volumes
Docker data volumes are designed to solve one of the deep paradoxes of containers, which is this: For the very same reasons that containers make apps highly portable — and, by extension, create more...
View ArticleApplication Containers vs. System Containers: Understanding the Difference
When people talk about containers, they usually mean application containers. Docker is automatically associated with application containers and is widely used to package applications and services. But...
View ArticleSending JMX Metrics to Sumo Logic Unified Logs and Metrics
This is a brief excerpt of how Mayvenn started sending JMX metrics to Sumo Logic Unified Logs and Metrics solution. For the full blog post please visit Mayvenn’s engineering blog. We’ve been using...
View ArticleDocker 1.12: What You Need to Know
Docker 1.12 was announced at DockerCon in June and we’ve had a chance to digest some of the new features. Sumo Logic provides the App for Docker, which is a great tool for collecting docker logs and...
View ArticleWho Broke My Test? A Git Bisect Tutorial
Git bisect is a great way to help narrow down who (and what) broke something in your test—and it is incredibly easy to learn. This Git Bisect tutorial will guide you through the basic process. So, what...
View ArticleBuilding Software Release Cycle Health Dashboards in Sumo Logic
Gauging the health and productivity of a software release cycle is notoriously difficult. Atomic age metrics like “man months” and LOCs may be discredited, but they are too often a reflexive response...
View ArticleAWS Elastic Load Balancing: Load Balancer Best Practices
You are probably aware that Amazon Web Services provides Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) as their preferred load balancing solution on the AWS platform. ELB distributes incoming application traffic across...
View ArticleA Beginner’s Guide to GitHub Events
Do you like GitHub, but don’t like having to log in to check on the status of your project or code? GitHub events are your solution. GitHub events provide a handy way to receive automated status...
View ArticleSolaris Containers: What You Need to Know
Solaris and containers may not seem like two words that go together—at least not in this decade. For the past several years, the container conversation has been all about platforms like Docker, CoreOS...
View ArticleBenchmarking Microservices for Fun and Profit
Why should I benchmark microservices? The ultimate goal of benchmarking is to better understand the software, and test out the effects of various optimization techniques for microservices. In this...
View ArticleHow Hudl and Cloud Cruiser use Sumo Logic Unified Logs and Metrics
We launched the Sumo Logic Unified Logs and Metrics (ULM) solution a couple of weeks ago, and we already are seeing massive success and adoption of this solution. So how are how real-world customers...
View ArticleTutorial: How to Run Artifactory as a Container
If you use Artifactory, JFrog’s artifact repository manager, there’s a good chance you’re already invested in a DevOps-inspired workflow. And if you do DevOps, you’re probably interested in...
View Article5 Bintray Security Best Practices
Bintray, JFrog’s software hosting and distribution platform, offers lots of exciting features, like CI integration and REST APIs. If you’re like me, you enjoy thinking about those features much more...
View ArticleGetting Started with AWS Kinesis Streams
In December 2013, Amazon Web Services released Kinesis, a managed, dynamically scalable service for the processing of streaming big data in real-time. Since that time, Amazon has been steadily...
View ArticleIntegrating Apps with the Sumo Logic Search API
The Sumo Logic Web app provides a search interface that lets you parse logs. This provides a great resource for a lot of use cases — especially because you can take advantage of a rich search syntax,...
View ArticleHow to Configure a Docker Cluster Using Swarm
If your data center were a beehive, Docker Swarm would be the pheromone that keeps all the bees working efficiently together. Here’s what I mean by that. In some ways, Docker containers are like...
View ArticleData Analytics and Microsoft Azure
Today plenty of businesses still have real concerns about migrating applications to the cloud. Fears about network security, availability, and potential downtime swirl through the heads of chief...
View ArticleOptimizing AWS Lambda Cost and Performance Through Monitoring
In this post, I’ll be discussing the use of monitoring as a tool to optimize the cost and performance of AWS Lambda. I’ve worked on a number of teams, and almost without exception, the need to put...
View ArticleUsing Logs to Speed Your DevOps Workflow
Log aggregation and analytics may not be a central part of the DevOps conversation. But effective use of logs is key to leveraging the benefits associated with the DevOps movement and the...
View ArticleIntegrate Azure Function with Sumo Logic Schedule Search
Azure Functions Azure functions are event driven pieces of code that can used to integrate systems, build APIs, process data and trigger any action/reaction to events without having to worry about...
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