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Sharing Stackdriver’s Product with the DevOps Community

Through my previous internship experiences in the financial services industry, I realized that I didn’t enjoy being stuck in a cubicle focused on a single financial line item. Rather, I wanted to...

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The Cassandra Outage That Didn’t Happen

Have you ever experienced that sweet satisfaction of seeing your system work just the way you hope it would? We experienced exactly that feeling recently here at Stackdriver and thought that it might...

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Initial Thoughts on (and Support for) AWS OpsWorks

Today, Amazon announced a new application management service called OpsWorks.  Using OpsWorks, customers can employ an application-centric approach to defining and managing their resources on AWS....

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Many Options for Cloud Cost & Usage Analytics

When we were working on the original concept for Stackdriver last spring, we interviewed dozens of large AWS and Rackspace Cloud customers to understand their most significant pain points in running...

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What are the most popular AWS services?

[Update] We received a lot of positive feedback on the first version of this post (and requests for more detail), so I decided to add another chart that illustrates the percentage of customers who use...

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The Art of Integration

Last month, we posted an op-ed on Xconomy that described some of the challenges that organizations encounter as they try to operate and manage applications in the cloud.  The main observations in the...

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Are You Taking Full Advantage of Amazon S3?

Storing well over 1 trillion objects, Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is certainly a popular choice among those who are looking to backup their system or store and analyze large amounts of data....

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I joined Stackdriver to innovate in the cloud

When the world failed to end as planned in 2012, I thought about where I’d end up and what would be important to me as I evaluated my options.  The factors that I landed on are: The ability to have a...

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Using AWS IAM for Consultants, Hosted Services, and MSPs

We at Stackdriver have recently been in contact with several AWS Consultants and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) who are constantly looking for better ways to connect to their customers’ AWS...

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When it Comes to Cloud Monitoring, We Make it Rain

I very quickly learned early in my career that going through the corporate structure was not best suited for me. The same mundane day-to-day activities get boring quick; I needed stimulation,...

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Weekly Roundup: SaaS Cloud Management, AWS Mobile, Cloud Tax, and More

Finding Better IT Management Capabilities in the Cloud – Businesses that could benefit from public and hybrid cloud infrastructure are being alienated due to the lack of sufficient management tools....

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AWS vs. Rackspace for Cloud Novices

Background Having worked at Stackdriver for 3 months now, I feel that I have become as knowledgeable in IaaS as anyone can without having actually used it. So it seemed now was the perfect time for me...

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GCE Feels Fast, UI Needs Work

I am a Platform Engineer at Stackdriver.  Our monitoring service processes over 100 million measurements per day on AWS.  We are constantly evaluating options to improve the performance and...

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Are You Taking Full Advantage of AWS Elastic Load Balancers?

Whether you’re a traffic-heavy media site or a small simple e-commerce site that foresees a wave of traffic coming its way, you will find Elastic Load Balancers incredibly useful to keep your ship from...

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Top 7 Cloud Stories This Week

1. AWS Drops Prices For Windows On-Demand EC2 Instances Up To 26% As Competition Intensifies | TechCrunch The giant has cut the price of certain instances by a quarter, as price competition in the...

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Running Cassandra in AWS

Stackdriver relies heavily on Cassandra running in AWS to store, analyze, and query across 100+ million data points per day. As we move to the public beta of our hosted monitoring service in the...

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Pingdom User Monitoring, Free AWS, OpenStack Activity

Top DevOps stories for this week New OpenStack Activity Board (view) With the release of the new OpenStack Activity Board, you can view commit, bug fix, and bug assignment activity across OpenStack...

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ELBs are great for HA but not for balancing load

Anybody with experience building scalable website has used load balancers in one form or another. The premise is simple: stick a highly available proxy in front of your tier of web servers and...

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Pingdom vs. New Relic

Last week, Pingdom announced that they had added real user monitoring to their website monitoring platform, putting them in the sights of application monitoring giant New Relic. Its easy to get caught...

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ELB, RDS, and SQS Usage: Higher Than You Think

Last month, I summarized the adoption of certain AWS services by our beta customers.  Feedback on that post was positive, but our sample size was still pretty small (~30).  We have have more than...

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