Tag: Infrastructure

If you have a New Relic Infrastructure Pro license, and unmonitored MySQL servers, there’s now an easy solution at your fingertips. With the New Relic MySQL integration you can monitor and graph almost any detailed metric you could possibly want….

As business entities move some of their services to Microsoft Azure Cloud (Azure), we see hybrid networks emerge that can span multiple physical sites and multiple cloud environments. Connecting those network segments securely can present some challenges. I’ve encountered two types…

Today, Pythian is pleased to announce that it has achieved a Google Cloud Partner Specialization in Infrastructure. The Google Cloud Partner Specialization Program is designed to connect customers to qualified partners with demonstrated technical proficiency and proven project success in areas including…

While working on a few tasks in the past few weeks, I faced a problem that involved setting a “filter” for an application that was exposed to the internet. The application receives requests with some data, processes it and then…

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you have probably heard the term “Infrastructure as a Code” thrown around. Infrastructure as Code – largely made possible by the rise of Cloud Infrastructure – has revolutionized automation because it was…

Chris Stankaitis, Team Manager, Site Reliability Engineering at Pythian, reflects on the theme of change at LISA16.

Thiago Carvalho, Site Reliability Consultant ay Pythian, details how to deploy Docker containers using AWS Opsworks.

Based on previous findings on CPU counting in public clouds, we look at an example where it makes a big difference: software licensing, particularly Oracle. Additional licensing costs resulting from CPU counting can dwarf any cost savings on infrastructure. We talk about how this happens, and show an example.

After looking at how virtual CPUs are handled in Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, we explore CPU definitions and CPU performance under the Google Compute Engine platform.

Pythian is a sponsor at the LISA conference this year, where we’ll be participating in a panel discussion, invited talk, and a birds-of-a-feather session. Bill Fraser, Principal Consultant in Pythian’s SRE practice notes that this year is different for Pythian….