What is staff augmentation — a comprehensive overview
Staff augmentation is a methodology that allows you to expand your team quickly by hiring temporary employees to optimize business processes.
Most of our projects have adopted containerization and cloud technologies. But in reality, many legacy systems still run on bare-metal infrastructure. Sometimes because of strict security requirements, specific dependencies, or simply the cost and risk of migration. Now, we're talking about IIS (Internet Information Services) - Microsoft's web server that is still widely used in corporate environments. The problem is that managing such systems often requires direct server access, which creates a barrier for developers and increases operational complexity.
In 2020, it was almost impossible to find a project without IaC, microservices, blockchain, VR, and other stuff from the description, as well as without AWS, Azure, or GCloud mentioned in the tech stack...
Azure Blockchain Workbench is a new cloud service platform that reduces time and effort needed for a blockchain network configuration and deployment. The tool is quite handy for blockchain projects usage.
It supports the main blockchain platforms and can be easily integrated with existing systems and applications utilizing Microsoft Flow and Logic Apps.
In this article, I would like to consider a tool that allows you to facilitate the work of the system administrator and make monitoring client servers more cost-effective and resultative. The overview will be helpful for system administrators, DevOps specialists, customers who cooperate with IT companies, developers.