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PC Storage Types Explained and Which One Is Best For You

If you’re computer is running out of storage, or isn’t performing as expected, it could be due to not enough RAM on your computer, or your internal hard drives are filling up. In this situation, what can you do? Learning more about PC storage types can help you choose the best physical devices to upgrade your storage and performance, or choose cloud storage services like Internxt to back up and store your files in the cloud.

Datadog Disaster Recovery mitigates cloud provider outages

A loss in infrastructure and applications observability can leave SRE and DevOps teams without insight into the real-time state of their production systems, causing them to temporarily pause code deployments and limit their ability to troubleshoot issues or respond to critical alerts. In modern cloud environments, where services are distributed and deeply interconnected, this lack of visibility can escalate quickly.

SQS Vs. SNS: Choosing The Right AWS Messaging Service

Picture this. You recently shipped a new feature, and things were working smoothly — until they didn’t. Now, one service is timing out. Another is overloaded. You dig in and realize the issue is with how your systems communicate. Messages are not arriving when or where they should. Your team had set up Amazon SNS for notifications and Amazon SQS for processing tasks. But somewhere along the way, the difference between SQS vs. SNS (and how they’re wired together) got lost in translation.

FinOps Is Not A Side Hustle

When rideshare drivers talk about a “side hustle”, they mean working a few hours on weekends to make extra cash. That’s fine for pocket money, but it’s catastrophic when the “hustle” is controlling your cloud and AI spend. Right now, too many companies run FinOps the way they run the office coffee pot: A volunteer refills it when things look empty.
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AIOps for SAP: From Ground to Cloud

Anyone working in the SAP market in 2025 is aware of two big topics: migration to cloud-based ERP and the end of many long-used tools for managing SAP operations including Focused Run, Landscape Manager and Solution Manager. Both are impossible to ignore. Cloud-based ERP presents a new era of business software possibilities, and with it the opportunities and complexities of migration, transformation, and leveraging the elastic capacity and scalability of cloud-based designs. But right behind it, the question becomes "how are we going to run and manage this?"

Multi Factor Authentication for Synthetic Monitoring for AVD

Today, I’ll cover some of the basics of monitoring Multi-Factor Authentication and why ensuring MFA is implemented is essential, particularly in environments where remote access is possible. I’ll cover some recent, specific case studies where a lack of MFA has led to security breaches and the mechanisms the bad actors used.

How to monitor and manage front-end observability in Blackfire

In this video, we'll guide you through the process of monitoring and managing your usage of front-end observability features in Blackfire. Learn how to access your Browser usage dashboard to view browser traces collected per environment, track your quota consumption, and understand the concept of spike protection. You'll discover how Blackfire's automatic detection of abnormal traffic spikes protects your monthly quota and ensures continuous data collection.

How to Enable and Configure Front-end Observability in Blackfire

In this video, learn how to enable and configure Front-end Observability in Blackfire. The tutorial covers steps to enable features across multiple environments via the Organization settings / Front-end usage in the Blackfire dashboard. Control front-end observability by enabling or disabling Browser Monitoring and Analytics per environment, using a JavaScript probe and a unique browser key. The video emphasizes the importance of naming transactions and explains how to manually add tracking snippets to HTML for better control.