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What are Azure Blob Containers?

Azure Blob Containers provide a scalable and cost-effective solution for managing unstructured data in the cloud. With a wide range of options and configurations, Azure Blob Storage offers flexibility and customization to cater to various data storage needs. This article provides a comprehensive analysis of key factors related to Azure Blob Containers and the importance of considering their impact when making decisions about Azure Blob Storage.

Announcing our improved Slack integration

Slack is one of the most widely used messaging Apps, providing collaboration and chat solutions to businesses. We at Squadcast understand that most of your work happens over Slack. Hence, we have made improvements to our Slack integration capabilities by introducing a bunch of UI and functional improvements. This blog will give you an overview of the latest improvements supported by this integration, which we hope will help in better collaboration and Incident Management.

World Backup Day: Tips for a successful small business backup strategy

In today’s digital economy, businesses have access to more data than ever. As newer technologies are introduced every single day, the risk of data being exposed to hackers is also increasing. Regardless of size or domain, almost every organization finds it challenging to meet its data security and management needs.

Redis on Cycle: Configuration and Deployment

Redis is a powerful in-memory data store thats blazing fast. It's performant, scalable, supports a wide range of data structures, has built in caching mechanisms, and is simple to set up for Cycle users. This post will take you from deploying your first Redis instance on Cycle, through deploying highly available, stateful Redis instances that are monitored by Redis Sentinel. The companion repo for this article with configuration files and settings can be found here.

Project Permissions are now available in Bitbucket Cloud

Today is a big day for Bitbucket Cloud as we begin rolling out project permissions and permission inheritance to align with Bitbucket Server and Data Center. We will be progressively rolling this out over the next month, so you will see the changes in your workspace before the end of April. Project permissions has been a long anticipated update for Bitbucket Cloud and represents one of the largest administration improvements for Bitbucket Cloud since we rolled out Workspaces in April 2020.

What is Gremlin?

Today’s technology leaders are facing a reliability gap. Customers expect their apps to be fast and available. But with Devops and distributed systems driving more speed and complexity, it’s harder than ever to find and fix the reliability risks that can impact customer experience–before it’s too late. To close the Reliability gap, we need a reliability strategy. One that’s proactive, measurable, built-in and automated. We need a reliability management platform.

How to create a VSCode Linux remote environment

Developers love Visual Studio Code (VSCode) for its flexibility and for its goldilocks balance of powerful features and lightness / speed. VSCode is a popular choice for developers using Linux, but even those using VSCode on Mac or Windows often look for ways to use VSCode with a Linux environment. This can present a challenge.