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Don't measure reliability with a lagging indicator like downtime or MTTR

Your reliability measurement can't just be a lagging indicator. "How do you know your company is doing well at reliability? A lot of people will just look at how many outages have you had in the last year and how much customer pain have you caused? I think that's one side of the coin. That's the reactive lagging indicator of the health of our system. To really be good at this, we need a way to understand the risks and the sharp points so that we have an idea of what we're getting into.

Azure Budget Monitoring

When it comes to managing costs in the Azure cloud, it is essential to have a reliable system that can help you keep track of your spending and alert you when you are getting close to exceeding your budget. This is where Turbo360’s Budgets monitoring feature comes in. The Budgets monitoring feature in Turbo360 is designed specifically for Azure cost monitoring.

Mastering Version Control in SharePoint

In today’s fast-paced work environment, effective document collaboration is crucial for productivity and success. Teams often work simultaneously on projects, requiring seamless communication and coordination to ensure everyone is on the same page. However, managing multiple versions of documents can become a daunting task, leading to potential confusion and errors. Imagine working on an important document only to discover conflicting versions and lost edits.

How to add feature flags to your Ruby on Rails applications

Feature flags are a way to affect how your application behaves at runtime, without having to deploy new code. As the name suggests, they can be used to switch certain features on or off depending on a specified rule. A type of feature flag you have probably already encountered can be implemented as simple environment variables. Consider the following code you typically find in every Rails app’s production.rb.

Kubernetes Unleashed: Mastering Installation, Configuration, and Cluster Management

Join Colin Griffin & Dinesh Majrekar as they dive into Kubernetes Unleashed, exploring the setup and management of Kubernetes clusters using Terraform, IAC, and GitOps. We'll cover essential tools like Rancher, Argo CD, and Helm, providing a hands-on demo of how to automate deployments and maintain infrastructure as code.

Resolve Actions - Compute: Create new AWS Instance (via Slack)

See how we use our the Resolve Actions automation platform internally to streamline the provisioning of new Resolve Actions Evaluation instances on AWS. Via a ChatBot integration with Slack, Resolve creates the new instance, configures the networking and firewall rules, and informs the Sales Team and Customer of the connection details.