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How Stress Affects Our Learning Abilities in Incidents (And What To Do About It)

While retrospectives provide a valuable pathway for learning outside of the flow of work, we also want learning to happen during an incident or unexpected event as it unfolds. This can be challenging due to the negative impact of stress on our ability to learn and navigate difficult situations. In this article, we’ll dig into how stress inhibits our ability to learn and what we can do about it.

Announcing the Cycle Toolbox

Today we announce the launch of the Cycle Toolbox, a suite of tools that are designed to streamline the workflows of Devops professionals and developers. Our goal is to create a toolkit that not only simplifies your daily tasks but also helps alleviate some of those common frustrations. This is just the beginning, but for our initial release, we're excited to introduce the following tools.

Introducing Squadcast's Audit Logs: Enhanced Visibility and Control

Maintaining comprehensive records of user and entity-related changes within your Incident Management platform is crucial. Organizations have long relied on external analytics tools for these insights. However, the demand for an integrated solution within Squadcast has been growing. We are excited to introduce Squadcast's Audit Logs feature, designed to address this need directly within our platform.

DevOps Checklist for Startups

This checklist is here to help startups evaluate and improve their DevOps practices. Based on our experience with over 200 startup customers, it’s tailored for teams with little or no dedicated DevOps staff. The aim is to highlight areas where you can make improvements, not to point out failures. Use this list to measure where you are now and to plan for future progress, ensuring your startup can grow smoothly and effectively.

GCP Cost Reporting: Key Features And Optimization Tips

GCP Cost Reporting is one of several tools provided by Google Cloud Console. The more you know about them, the more you’ll understand your Google Cloud bill. In addition, knowing the drivers behind your costs will help you reduce waste and maximize your GCP spend. This quick guide to GCP reporting tools will guide you on how to do it. We’ll also share how to get more detailed cost intelligence such as Cost per Customer or Cost per Feature on top of basics such as total and average costs.

Comparing Encryption in Transit Options

Weigh up three popular ways to protect your data in transit—host level encryption (TLS/SSH), MACsec, and IPsec—to fortify your network security. Encryption in transit refers to protecting data while it moves from one place to another, in contrast to “encryption at rest” which is used to protect data where it is stored. In this blog we’ll look at a few common options for encryption in transit, and the pros and cons of each from a network perspective.

Ribbon Voice Network Transformation - The Savings Pay for the Conversion

Ribbon's Fixed Network Transformation solutions consolidate and modernize infrastructure, eliminating inefficiencies. Ribbon provides solutions to transform both the core IP and optical networks and the IP-based communications services that run on top of that network, helping service providers expand and improve business services as well as enter new markets like unified 5G xhaul and broadband backhaul. At the same time, these transformations reduce the cost and complexity of delivering traditional residential communications services by dramatically reducing recurring power, HVAC, space, and staffing costs.