November Checkpoint updates and additions are here! This month, you have three new checkpoints, and we are proud to say that the three additions make for 215 worldwide checkpoint locations. We’ve also updated the IP addresses of two checkpoints.

Sometimes platform teams get created as a place to dump all the toil. Other times they’re created to collect systems expertise. However, the true purpose of a platform team is to increase development velocity and improve the developer experience. How can you keep this from happening with your platform team? We’ll share five specific ways to build empathy with the developer experience, and make sure your platform team is becoming (or staying) the business multiplier it should be.

If your job is to manage an end-user or customer support organization, one thing you really need a handle on is the flow of support emails into, and out of, your department. You need to be sure that you are capturing all incoming tickets, as well as all responses on those tickets. You also need to be able to audit all outgoing email sent by your team and the messages on conversations they are having with customers.

Digital capabilities and the availability of new data sources are impacting how businesses are designing and evolving business processes in the connected world. Cloud is top of mind for many organizations today. Many are leveraging Cloud as the ‘easy button’ to quickly get started and to help with digital transformation and/or challenges/constraints with existing IT operations.

Microsoft Azure is a public cloud computing platform for building, testing, deploying and managing applications and services. But how much do you know about the latest innovations and powerful capabilities of Azure and .NET?

Last week, Amazon announced the end of the reserved instance, commonly known as the “RI”, with the announcement of their new replacement, “AWS Savings Plans”.

Out-of-the-box integrations are great, and they help organizations see an immediate return on investment when the technologies they have invested in work together seamlessly. However, a little customization to these integrations can dramatically increase productivity and reduce mean time to resolution. Here we will address a couple of best practices and customizations that can take your PagerDuty and LogicMonitor integration to the next level.

Cloud Run for Anthos allows you to run stateless containers on Anthos GKE on Google Cloud, on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Cloud Run is serverless: it enables you to run requests or event-driven stateless workloads without having to worry about servers. It abstracts away all infrastructure management such as provisioning, configuring, and managing servers, so you focus only on writing code.

New enterprise DevOps solution will let ServiceNow customers develop better software faster, shipping to production in minutes vs. days, weeks or months DevOps is here to stay. And for good reason. In today’s hyperconnected world, if you’re not fast, your competitors will be. Every industry is being disrupted by software, and every company is trying to figure out how to navigate and embrace new technologies as they scale.

If you meet InfluxData at a trade show, or we provide you with a demo, you might be shown the dashboard called “Rick’s House”. I’m that “Rick”, and this is how I’m sending my data to InfluxDB Cloud, which currently looks like this...

Hey, there. This is part three of the Elastic SIEM for home and small business blog series. In the Getting started blog, we created our Elasticsearch Service deployment and started collecting data from one of our computers using Winlogbeat. In the Securing cluster access blog, we secured access to our cluster by restricting privileges for users and Beats. If you haven’t read the first and second blogs, you may want to before going any further.