Tag: cloud technologies

Security & Compliance

When It Comes to Your Brand, Security Matters

There is an old adage that the customer is always right. Unfortunately, at Flugel.it, we’ve learned this is not always the case. Recently, one of our clients came to us and said that security was unnecessary because they do not store customer or client data. For us, this was shocking to hear. Our client couldn’t…

Observability

The Top 5 Metrics You Need to Understand the Health of Your Applications

You’ve made an application, and you’re ready to launch. But do you know how healthy it is? You may think that you have followed all the necessary processes and procedures required to keep your new application safe and secure. You may be monitoring your system daily and think that is more than enough to keep…

Cost Optimization

Business Metrics For Cloud Cost Optimization

As a business, you want to get the highest value out of each and every dollar you spend in the Cloud. One of the best ways to do this is to prioritize business metrics or, in other words, employ a FinOps strategy. FinOps combines systems, best practices, and culture to better understand costs in the…

Automation - DevOps - Editor's Pick - Infrastructure as Code - Kubernetes

What is immutable infrastructure?

Within the Cloud infrastructure space, there are several approaches on how to manage infrastructure. From: old-fashion manual creation and pray, to: everything automated, self-healing, self-scaling and pretty much self-managing. Within the second group, there are several approaches as well; you can have your infrastructure automated provisioned with Terraform and use Ansible for the configuration management,…