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Articles from ADMIN Issue 40
"Please do not feed the seagulls" is good advice, and I'm not really talking about seagulls.
The Complete ADMIN Magazine Archive: 7 years of expert advice for the IT specialist!
News for system administrators around the world.
Large environments such as clouds pose demands on the network, some of which cannot be met with Layer 2 solutions. The Border Gateway Protocol jumps into the breach in Layer 3 and ensures seamlessly scalable networks.
Continuously monitoring the performance of applications helps ensure the service quality in multilayered cloud services.
As Prometheus gave fire to mankind, the distributed monitoring software with the same name illuminates the admin's mind in native cloud environments, offering metrics for monitored systems and applications.
Keep your containers lean and use a SuperContainer for troubleshooting live services with your favorite tools.
In the era of containers and clouds, the importance of the operating system is dwindling. Practically invulnerable lean operating systems that only handle elementary tasks are just what the doctor ordered.
We look at database back ends for monitoring, alerting, and trending analysis in the Grafana visualization tool.
We look at the variety of databases available in Amazon Web Services – from relational, to NoSQL, to data warehouses for petabyte data volumes.