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Introduction to Monitoring Serverless Applications
Serverless as an architectural pattern is now widely adopted, and has quite rightly challenged traditional approaches when it comes to design. Serv...
Keep Training on Track with Auto Nudge
When Administrators and Managers adopt Training Plans, they gain the ability to manually Nudge individual users. Nudges are reminder mechanisms tha...
How to Build an Intelligent Chatbot with Python and Dialogflow
Chatbots are a powerful example of artificial intelligence (AI) in use today. Just think about Google Assistant and how intelligent the platform be...
WaitCondition Controls the Pace of AWS CloudFormation Templates
AWS's WaitCondition can be used with CloudFormation templates to ensure required resources are running.As you may already be aware, AWS CloudForm...
Measuring DevOps Success: What, Where, and How
The DevOps methodology relates technical and organization practices so it's difficult to simply ascribe a number and say "our organization is a B+ ...
2019 DevOps and Automation Predictions
2019 DevOps and Automation PredictionsWe recently released our 2019 predictions for cloud computing and are doing the same here for DevOps and au...
10 Common AWS Mistakes & How to Avoid Them
Massive migration to the public cloud is changing architecture patterns, operating principles, and governance models. That means new approaches are...
What are Azure Blueprints?
What are Azure Blueprints?Blueprints, in the traditional sense, are used by architects and engineers to design and build new things. They are us...
What’s New with Cloud Academy Hands-on Labs
Cloud Academy’s Hands-On Labs are an integral part of our platform. Learning by doing is the fastest way a professional can help their organization...
The 9 AWS Certifications: Which is Right for You and Your Team?
As companies increasingly shift workloads to the public cloud, cloud computing has moved from a nice-to-have to a core competency in the enterprise...
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Disadvantages of Cloud Computing
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Microservices Architecture: Advantages and Drawbacks
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The 9 AWS Certifications: Which is Right for You and Your Team?
As companies increasingly shift workloads to the public cloud, cloud computing has moved from a nice-to-have to a core competency in the enterprise. This shift requires a new set of skills to design, deploy, and manage applications in the cloud.As the market leader and most mature p...
AWS Certification Practice Exam: What to Expect from Test Questions
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Building Ansible Playbooks Step-by-Step
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S3 FTP: Build a Reliable and Inexpensive FTP Server Using Amazon’s S3
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What Exactly is a Cloud Architect and How do You Become One?
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Prerequisites to Learn Cloud Computing – Introduction
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How to Use AWS CLI
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How Does Cloud Computing Work?
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What is Cloud Foundry? Key benefits and a real use case
Unlike most other Cloud Computing platform services, which are tied to particular cloud providers, Cloud Foundry is available as a stand-alone software package. You can, of course, deploy it on Amazon's AWS, but you can also host it yourself on your own OpenStack server, or through HP's...
AWS CLI: 10 Useful Commands You May Not Know
The AWS CLI should be your best friendThe AWS console is certainly very well laid out and, with time, becomes very easy to use. However if you are not using the AWS CLI (Command Line Interface) from your local terminal, you may be missing out on whole lot of great functionality and sp...