Challenges Facing Telco Companies
What are the challenges telecommunication companies are facing today? A conversation with Bryce Mitchell from Rogers Communications.
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Crazy Like a Fox: Redis as Your Primary Database
Redis is fast. It’s fast because the data is all in memory. Persistence options are limited. Because of this, many people say, “Redis is for transient data only!” However, sometimes the need for speed and ease of operations can outweigh the durability downsides! In this talk, we look at a real SaaS business using Redis as its (only) datastore. You’ll learn why we decided to go all-in on Redis and the challenges we faced. You’ll learn how we operationalized the setup, handle backups and restores, and how we’ll scale out. Are we making a terrible mistake? You be the judge!
Why the role of the CIO is constantly changing and challenging
Back in the days, the role of the CIO was relatively clear: the focus was on deploying, managing, and maintaining IT systems across the organization. The CIO’s responsibilities started to blur when end-users became more tech-savvy - around the millenium. Reasons were that ‘they can now get their own technology and don’t need IT to do it for them’. This even led to the much-repeated “death of the CIO meme”.
Announcing the Industry's First Private Distribution Network
Today, at our DevOps user conference swampUP, we were thrilled to announce a new groundbreaking innovation from JFrog: The industry’s first Private Distribution Network! Private Distribution Network (PDN) enables enterprises to easily set up and manage a secure, massively-scalable, hybrid distribution network for software updates.
What's New from JFrog: Binary Lifecycle Management at Scale
JFrog’s annual swampUp DevOps conference always brings new, exciting features to further our vision of accelerating releases through liquid software. This year was no exception, as JFrog CTO Yoav Landman and CPO Dror Bereznitsky revealed innovations for the JFrog DevOps Platform that enable end-to-end binary lifecycle management. Enterprise DevOps and large-scale modern application delivery require robust management of binaries, which are the building blocks of applications.
Four things to consider when evaluating incident management platforms
When you’re feeling the stress and pain around incidents, making the decision to find an incident management tool is a no-brainer. But how do you choose the one that will work for you, your team, and your business? You might be asking yourself: Where do I start? What do I need to know? What questions do I ask? What are the options? How can I be sure we’re choosing the right tool?
5 Challenges in Chatbot Optimization and Maintenance
Chatbots can be like double-edged swords. It can either boost your customer service or turn customers away. Hence, you must make sure that you research and prepare properly before committing to it. This way, you will know how to optimize and maintain your chatbots to ensure its effectiveness. There are many chatbot benefits for business. In fact, 78% of businesses have started integrating such technology into their customer service in the past months.
The top three insights from the 2021 State of Database DevOps report
Last year was a year of unprecedented challenges for everyone in every part of the world and every industry, and it was also a year of big changes in the IT sector. The pandemic underscored the role of the IT department as an enabler and a critical part of the transition to remote working. While digitalization was well underway before 2020, no one could have predicted the acceleration the pandemic brought on.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 - Wrap Up
Wrap Up of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 conference by Kunal, a student Developer Advocate. This year more than 26,000+ people joined virtually, 69% of them being first-time attendees.
Adding IaC security scans to your CI pipeline with Indeni
With CircleCI, there are many different CI/CD flows that can be automated. One such flow is the use of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to build cloud environments. For example, you can use CircleCI to automate the process of building Terraform plans and applying them, in order to create massive production setups in AWS, Azure, GCP, and other cloud environments.