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Becoming an Azure Expert MSP

Recently, Wortell achieved the Microsoft Azure Expert MSP designation, a milestone that places them among a select group of managed service providers recognized for their Azure expertise and operational maturity. In this webinar, Alex Tilgenkamp (Azure Cloud Architect at Wortell) shares insights into what it takes to achieve this designation and what it means for organizations building and scaling their Azure managed services practice.

Liquibase MongoDB Extension Tutorial | Install & Use the Harness Community Extension

Discover how to manage MongoDB schema changes using Liquibase with the Harness Community Liquibase MongoDB Extension. In this step-by-step tutorial, you will learn how to install, configure, and run MongoDB database migrations using Liquibase Community Edition. This extension enables DevOps teams to bring database version control and CI/CD practices to MongoDB, making schema changes easier to track, automate, and deploy.

Always Audit Ready: Streamlining SOC 2 & ISO Compliance with Cortex

Stop dreading your next audit. If you’ve ever survived a SOC 2, ISO, or regulatory audit, you know the drill: weeks of manual data pulling, hunting for owners, and frantic spreadsheet updates. In this video, we show you how Cortex transforms compliance from a painful annual event into a continuous, automated process. What we cover: The "Audit Scramble" vs. "Always Ready": Why manual snapshots fail and how a living service landscape keeps you compliant 365 days a year.

Is Your Org Ready for Peak Season? How to Automate Production Readiness with Cortex

Stop relying on hope as a production readiness strategy. Whether it’s Black Friday, tax season, or a major product launch, engineering leaders need to know—with 100% certainty—if their systems can handle the load. In this video, Becka demonstrates how Cortex replaces manual, time-consuming readiness reviews with a continuous, automated framework. What we cover: The Readiness Gap: Why manual self-reporting and static spreadsheets fail during high-traffic periods.

Bridging the gap between mobile networks and the cloud

When it comes to IoT connectivity, it’s no longer enough for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Mobile Service Providers (MSPs) to provide coverage, capacity and SIM cards. As enterprises accelerate their digital transformation, the focus has shifted from basic connectivity to seamless, secure and scalable device-to-cloud integration.

ACME Renewal Information (ARI) solves mass certificate revocation

In July 2024, DigiCert discovered they’d been issuing certificates with improper domain validation for five years. They gave customers 24 hours to replace 83,000 certificates. CISA issued an emergency alert. Critical infrastructure operators couldn’t meet the deadline. Some customers sued. That’s what mass revocation looks like in practice. The CA finds a compliance problem, the clock starts, and everyone scrambles. ACME Renewal Information (ARI) is the fix.

Announcing HAProxy Fusion 2.0

Today, we announce the release of HAProxy Fusion 2.0. This release marks a generational leap for the authoritative control plane that orchestrates HAProxy Enterprise’s high-performance application delivery and security. With a combination of new headliner features, structural changes, and improvements to the performance of the underlying API, HAProxy Fusion has jumped from version 1.3 to version 2.0.

AWS App Runner: How It Works, Pricing, And Best Practices For Cost Optimization Today

Back in May of 2021, containers had already won. Kubernetes adoption was surging. ECS and EKS were powerful. But for many teams, deploying a simple containerized web service still meant stitching together clusters, networking rules, scaling policies, load balancers, IAM roles, and CI/CD pipelines. It felt heavier than it should. Developers no longer wanted more orchestration power. They wanted less operational drag.