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icinga

How to check CPU usage on Linux

Oct 1, 2025 By Blerim Sheqa In Icinga
When your Linux system feels sluggish, one of the first things to investigate is the CPU usage. The CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the brain of your machine, and if it’s overloaded, everything else slows down. In this guide, you’ll learn different ways to Linux check CPU usage with command-line tools, how to interpret the metrics, and why automatic monitoring with Icinga ensures long-term system stability.
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ribbon

Middle Mile Networks: What They Are and How to Use Them

Oct 1, 2025 By Mitch Simcoe In Ribbon
Whether it’s streaming video, powering remote work, or supporting smart technologies, the ability to connect local users to the global internet is essential. But behind the scenes, a key infrastructure layer ensures that this digital experience runs smoothly: the middle mile. Middle mile networks serve as the critical bridge between the internet’s backbone and the local networks that deliver service to homes, businesses, and institutions.
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metricfire

Easiest Way to Ship Docker & Nginx Logs to Loki with Promtail

Oct 1, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
Effective monitoring catches problems before users do, and with Promtail, Loki, and LogQL, it’s a lightweight, approachable option for any DevOps team. This guide shows how to monitor Docker itself (pull failures, restarts, health flaps) so you’ve got a baseline on container runtime health.
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circleci

Code coverage standards for a Next.js project using CircleCI and Coveralls

Oct 1, 2025 By Daniel Efe In CircleCI
An essential part of software development, testing helps catch bugs and errors early, improves software quality, and ultimately prevents costly issues from being deployed to production. The effectiveness of software testing will remain uncertain until it can be measured and that is where code coverage comes in. Code coverage is a metric that tells developers what portion of their codebase is executed when specific tests are run.
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atlassian

Why Jenkins might cost you 10x more than Bitbucket Pipelines

Oct 1, 2025 By Edmund Munday In Atlassian
Any company still running their own CI/CD, such as Jenkins, is paying a price. The question is which one: Each of these is extremely costly, and yet many software teams still host and run their own CI/CD for two reasons: tools like Jenkins are cheap or free, and hosting Jenkins on an AWS EC2 instance is often cheaper per minute than SaaS CI/CD services like Bitbucket Pipelines. Both reasons are true, but they’re also a trap.
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datadog

Monitor Slurm with Datadog

Oct 1, 2025 By Bowen Chen In Datadog
Slurm (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management) is an open source workload management system used to schedule jobs and manage resources for high-performance computing (HPC) Linux clusters. It ensures that jobs and resources are scheduled fairly and efficiently and is scalable across large clusters, an issue that native Linux process management tools struggle with.
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pulsant

Best Practices for Data Centre Migration A Risk-Aware Guide for IT Leaders

Oct 1, 2025 By Pulsant In Pulsant
When a data centre migration is executed well, it enables growth and strengthens resilience. When it is not, the consequences are immediate: service downtime, compliance breaches, and operational disruption that affects both clients and internal teams. For IT leaders, the pressure lies in modernising infrastructure without compromising continuity.
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Why Investing In Quality Hardware Elevates Any Home Improvement Effort

Why Investing In Quality Hardware Elevates Any Home Improvement Effort

Oct 1, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Let's be honest. Renovating is a marathon of decisions. After you've poured your energy into choosing the perfect paint, the ideal tile, and the dream countertop, decision fatigue is real. Your brain is just done. So when it comes to the "small stuff", the cabinet handles, the hinges, the light switch covers, it's tempting to just grab whatever is cheapest and call it a day.
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The Rise of Digital Payments in Everyday Business

The Rise of Digital Payments in Everyday Business

Oct 1, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Digital payments have transformed from a convenience into an important part of modern commerce. From small coffee shops to international corporations, businesses are increasingly relying on electronic transactions to streamline operations, improve customer satisfaction, and stay competitive in a growing market. The growing adoption of mobile wallets, contactless cards, and online payment platforms reflects a shift in consumer expectations, where speed, security, and convenience are top priorities.
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