In this article, we're going to focus on pillar number five: measuring everything. We'll discuss five key metrics for DevOps software pipelines and explain how each of them can help measure software delivery performance.

In December 2013, AWS released Kinesis, a managed, dynamically scalable service for the processing of streaming big data in real-time. Since that time, Amazon has been steadily expanding the regions in which Kinesis is available, and as of this writing, it is possible to integrate Amazon’s Kinesis producer and client libraries into a variety of custom applications to enable real-time processing of streaming data from a variety of sources.

An often under-appreciated service on AWS is Route 53. One could make the mistake of thinking of AWS Route 53 as just another DNS service. To the contrary, using AWS Route 53 for global load balancing, you can benefit from improved latency and better availability for your application stack. How is this done? This article will give you an overview of how it can be setup, and hopefully it will provide a few tips to help you along the way.

One frequent question I get is “what is Amazon Kinesis, and what can it do for me?” I also get a lot of questions around Kinesis Streams vs. Firehose? Let’s go through the key concepts and show how to get started with logging using the Kinesis Connector.