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Scaling Up and Scaling Out in Azure

Having a quick and easy method to scale up and scale out your applications is critical. Learn the why, when and how of scaling your Microsoft Azure infrastructure.

DevOps

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Consolidated Billing for an AWS Organization

Having 4, 6, 12, or even more accounts with individual invoices, billing methods, support contracts, reserved instance pools, and everything else that comes along would be enough to drive anyone crazy. Luckily, AWS offers a great solution that is easy to set up and manage.

DevOps

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Monitoring and Managing Production Applications

Recovering from a production site outage during peak hours can be a daunting task. While everyone wants a 100% uptime, it can be near impossible because of things out of our hands. However, we can plan for these potential outages and architect the application and infrastructure to allow for a quick recovery.

Back-end / DevOps

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Leveraging Multiple Accounts in Your AWS Environment

Considered to be best practices in AWS, as well as one of the most popular ways to fully maximize the potential of AWS, is to utilize multiple accounts. Accounts can be set up as either per-organization, per-department, or even per-application and can be utilized to logically and physically separate any resources to fit your organization’s needs. This, combined with master-account billing and properly utilizing Tags, can allow you to be as separate, yet collected, as you see fit.

DevOps

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Creating a Functional Test Framework

Learn about creating, employing, or utilizing a framework for your functional tests to drastically improve your testing that benefits of creating functional test framework and what that framework might look like.

DevOps