Web Performance 101: Monitoring APIs By Kameerath Kareem We have already established the importance of APIs in today’s digital world (read about it here). With APIs playing such an important role in keeping us connected, it’s necessary to maintain the API’s performance as well as availability. There are multiple aspects to consider when monitoring APIs, from integration to performance issues, therefore a general monitoring strategy that only accounts for up-time is not ideal. What can go wrong? APIs power complex integrations and allow disparate applications to work together to build a more interactive and connected digital environment. It allows data exchange between services but such connections and integrations can create multiple points of vulnerability in the network. There are several things that can go wrong when using APIs: The API endpoint may be experiencin... (more)

[session] Intelligent Automation | @CloudExpo @Ayehu_Eyeshare #AI #DX #CIO #DigitalTransformation

Intelligent Automation in the Digital Transformation Era Intelligent Automation is now one of the key business imperatives for CIOs and CISOs impacting all areas of business today. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Brian Boeggeman, VP Alliances & Partnerships at Ayehu, will talk about how business value is created and delivered through intelligent automation to today's enterprises. The open ecosystem platform approach toward Intelligent Automation that Ayehu delivers to the market is core to enabling the creation of the self-driving enterprise. Speaker Bio Brian Boeggeman, VP Alliances & Partnerships at Ayehu, brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in the cloud software and ICT industry with proven track records in partner business development, enterprise sales, and marketing. At Ayehu, Brian and his team drive Alliances and Partnerships to prolifera... (more)

Java Web Services Tutorial | @CloudExpo #API #Java #Cloud

Java Web Services Tutorial: Improve App Communication and Flexibility By Eugen Paraschiv Web services have taken the development world by storm, especially in recent years as they've become more and more widely adopted. There are naturally many reasons for this, but first, let's understand what exactly a web service is. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) defines "web of services" as "message-based design frequently found on the Web and in enterprise software". Basically, a web service is a method of sending a message between two devices through a network. In practical terms, this translates to an application which outputs communication in a standardized format for other client applications to receive and act on. Web services have been adopted so quickly because they bring several important advantages: Allow communication and interoperability between applications r... (more)

How to Fully Automate CI/CD | @DevOpsSummit #AI #CI #CD #DevOps #Serverless

Imagine a world where your Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment environment is 100% automated, including the passing of credentials. Capital One, a leading U.S. bank, has achieved this, and Andrey Utis, Director, Software Engineering, at Capital One, outlined how they achieved this in this talk, Application Secret Management with KMS, at the All Day DevOps conference. Andrey started by stating what we all know - security needs to be at the forefront. Additionally, a message we heard over and over at the All Day DevOps conference is to automate where you can automate. That combination can be daunting and seemingly impossible. How can we automate security when someone needs to enter credentials and we can't store credentials where everyone can get to them? After all, credentials give you access to databases that often contain personally identifiable informa... (more)

How to Sponsor @DevOpsSummit | #AI #DX #DevOps #Serverless #Monitoring

Download Show Prospectus ▸ Here DevOps at Cloud Expo taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Must Watch Video: Recap of @DevOpsSummit New York Javits Center The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long development cycles that produce software that is obsolete at launch. DevOps may be disruptive, but it is essential. Nutanix DevOps Booth at @DevOpsSummit New York Javits Center DevOps at Cloud Expo will expand the DevOps community, enable a wide sharing of knowledge, and educate delegates and technology pro... (more)

Digital Experience Monitoring | @CloudExpo #DX #DevOps #APM #Serverless #Monitoring

Planning a Cloud Migration with Digital Experience Monitoring By Dennis Callaghan In our first installment of this blog series, we went over the different types of applications migrated to the cloud and the benefits IT organizations hope to achieve by moving applications to the cloud. Unfortunately, IT can’t just press a button or even whip up a few lines of code to move applications to the cloud. Like any strategic move by IT, a cloud migration requires advanced planning. That planning should start by asking and answering these three questions: How does the application currently perform? How will moving the application impact users? Will there be more or less latency? Can the corporate network support the additional bandwidth requirements that using the cloud will create? We’re naturally focusing on performance here because we’re a performance monitoring company. Bu... (more)

Successful Knowledge Management | @CloudExpo #AI #ML #DX #CloudNative

Simple Secrets of Successful Knowledge Management By LeAnn Smiles, Product Analyst, ManageEngine Knowledge that doesn't serve is knowledge wasted. And for knowledge gained from experience and research to be useful, IT enterprises need to organize, manage and offer it in the best way possible. Fortunately, the best way isn't a Herculean task when you employ simple tricks to build a profound knowledge base (KB). A sound knowledge base eliminates the need to rediscover or reformulate knowledge and improves the support process. With that in mind, consider these best practices to help build a successful knowledge base. 1. Collect information to build your KB. The most important part of knowledge management is building knowledge itself. The first step is to identify prospective areas from which knowledge can be derived and extract information. Resolutions on common issues can... (more)

Continuous Everyone | @DevOpsSummit #CloudNative #Serverless #DevOps #ContinuousDelivery

We have Continuous Integration and we have Continuous Deployment, but what's continuous across all of what we do is people. Even when tasks are automated, someone wrote the automation. So, Jayne Groll evangelizes about Continuous Everyone. Jayne is the CEO of the DevOps Institute and the author of Agile Service Management Guide. She talked about Continuous Everyone at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference. She describes it as "about people, culture, and collaboration mapped into your value streams." We all hear about the importance of people, culture, and collaboration, but how well are they integrated into our organizations and processes? Is it in everything we do? Is it inherently continuous? It all starts with culture. The Business Dictionary defines culture as "The values and behaviors that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of an orga... (more)

Announcing @App2Cloud_USA to Exhibit at @CloudExpo | #Docker #Containers #CloudNative

SYS-CON Events announced today that App2Cloud will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct. 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. App2Cloud is an online Platform, specializing in migrating legacy applications to any Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). By providing an online solution (https://www.app2cloud.io), companies can upload their traditional applications to get, few days later, clean and standard containers. App2Cloud covers all the current cloud platforms and technologies including Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, and others. For more information, visit https://www.app2cloud.io. 21st International Cloud Expo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, w... (more)

[session] Open Analytics | @CloudExpo @ProgressSW #AI #ML #DX #BigData #Analytics

Welcome to the Era of Open Analytics Cloud applications are seeing a deluge of requests to support the exploding advanced analytics market. "Open analytics" is the emerging strategy to deliver that data through an open data access layer, in the cloud, to be directly consumed by external analytics tools and popular programming languages. An increasing number of data engineers and data scientists use a variety of platforms and advanced analytics languages such as SAS, R, Python and Java, as well as frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark. Cloud APIs are commonly designed to support application integration representing a disconnect with the analytics ecosystem. These combined trends create significant demand for a "bring-your-own-analytics" (BYOA) capability for cloud applications. In his general session at 20th Cloud Expo, Sumit Sarkar, Chief Data Evangelist at Progress... (more)

[session] Going #Serverless the Amazon #Lambda Way? | @CloudExpo @CAinc #AWS

Going Serverless the Amazon Lambda Way? Stay Calm and Monitor On! While some vendors scramble to create and sell you a fancy solution for monitoring your spanking new Amazon Lambdas, hear how you can do it on the cheap using just built-in Java APIs yourself. By exploiting a little-known fact that Lambdas aren't exactly single threaded, you can effectively identify hot spots in your serverless code. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, David Martin, Principal Product Owner at CA Technologies, will give a live demonstration and code walkthrough, showing how to overcome the challenges of monitoring S3 and RDS. He will provide an overview of necessary Amazon Lambda concepts and discuss how to integrate the monitoring data with other tools. This presentation is for experienced Java coders, but does not require any familiarity with Amazon Lambdas specifically. Speaker Bio ... (more)