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Introduction to various Kubernetes dashboards by @Saiyam Pathak

In this session, Saiyam Pathak, Director of Technical Evangelism at Civo will discuss various Kubernetes dashboards that can be used to view the cluster and its related metrics and discuss the benefits of each. Saiyam will also look into the Kubernetes dashboard, Skooner, Headlamp, Lens, and Octant.

Where can IT process automation make a real impact? | Resolve

Is your IT department buried in service desk requests or incident response tickets? Is your IT Operations team scrambling to assess and isolate a network application problem? In this video Resolve CEO Vijay Kurkal explains how automation can help clean up the mundane service desk tasks and communication while freeing up your ITOps resources to do more meaningful work by providing automation solutions for auto-remediation, provisioning, observability and much more.

Bridging the gap between Engineering and Customer Support during incidents

Customer trust and satisfaction are the most important currency your business can own. No matter how brilliant your product, without happy customers your business will struggle. When everything is running smoothly, it’s easy to feel that heady dose of customer love. It’s when things break during an incident that these relationships are really put to the test.

Round Robin Escalation: An Efficient Way to Distribute On-Call Responsibilities

Nowadays, organizations address a high volume of incidents everyday. With so much happening, responders can be overwhelmed by the volume of incidents and may end up de-prioritizing certain important incidents. Hence, it is important to have an efficient on-call scheduling and escalation process in place. In this blog, we will explore how Round Robin Escalations can help distribute on-call load and set up efficient on-call schedules. This blog covers the following pointers.

FIPS certified vs compliant: what's safer?

Encryption is key to protecting sensitive data. There are several methodologies using different cryptographic algorithms to convert plain text into cipher text. Navigating multiple methodologies and algorithms creates a complex, labour-intensive process for teams evaluating the cryptographic services offered within software components.

System Administrator vs. Network Administrator: Which One Are You?

There’s an abundance of career opportunities in IT. It’s hard for newcomers to find their footing in the middle of complicated terminology, with similar job roles but not equal. One of these difficulties is the system administrator vs. network administrator issue. Are they two completely different careers? Today, we’ll help dispel any confusion so you can make an informed choice. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 5% growth for network and system administrators all through 2026.

Simplify IT Management with Hyperconverged Infrastructure

HCI (Hyperconverged Infrastructure) is changing the way businesses work. For starters, the management and deployments become way simpler with HCI solutions. But that is only the start; proper resource utilization, demandable scalability, exceptional data protection, and so on, the benefits associated with HCI solutions are numerous. But what are HCI solutions? And how the HCI Hyperconverged Infrastructure simplifies IT management. Well, find out answers to these and many more questions related to HCI solutions in this no-bullshit guide.

Monitor your Microsoft Azure VMs featuring Ampere Altra Arm-based CPUs with Datadog

As organizations continue to expand their cloud footprint, managing costs without risking application performance is a priority. Because of this, Arm processors have become popular for their efficient, cost-effective processing power. Microsoft Azure’s new series of Azure Virtual Machines are powered by Ampere Altra Arm-based processors, which provide excellent price performance for scale-out and cloud-native workloads.

Deploying a Web App in any cloud using Terraform and Multy

In this tutorial, we'll deploy a simple web app to the cloud of your choice - composed of a database and a virtual machine where the frontend code will run. So that the configuration is reusable and consistent, we'll write it in Terraform. Usually Terraform configurations are cloud-specific, and changing clouds requires a complete rewrite. In this case, so that you can reuse the same configuration across clouds, we'll be using Multy.