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5 Essential Leadership Skills for Modern Business Success

Business leaders need to inspire and motivate, yet efficiently delegate. They must make difficult decisions under pressure, and yet stay calm in the face of economic uncertainty. It's sometimes tough being a leader, but with these 5 leadership skills for modern business success, you'll find it a whole lot easier.

How to design apps with Docker containers?

Do you want to streamline your app development process to make it efficient, scalable, and reliable? Building and deploying applications without the right tools quickly becomes complex and resource-intensive. Docker containers address these challenges by providing effective solutions. The 2023 Stack Overflow Developer Survey reveals that 42% of developers rely on Docker, demonstrating its pivotal role in modern workflows. Similarly, Datadog states that over 25% of organizations use Docker in production, which underscores its widespread adoption.

Top tips: Must-know holiday hacks for IT admins

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we explore ways in which IT admins can optimize the IT infrastructure during the holidays while leaving room for enjoyment. December is here, and the holiday spirit is in the air. While you prune your Christmas tree at the start of the holiday season, your IT infrastructure requires consistent pruning throughout the year by IT admins.

New option to reverse stack traces in Crash Reporting

This enhancement is part of Raygun’s 12 Days of Christmas 2024. Over the past few weeks, we’ve shared daily updates on bug fixes and feature improvements inspired by feedback from you, our customers. These are the small but impactful changes you’ve asked for, designed to make Raygun faster and easier to use. Merry Christmas and thanks for following along—we’re excited to keep enhancing the tools you rely on!

The Art of On-Call Collaboration: 5 Strategies for Team Health Improvement

For a fast-paced work environment, effective on-call management is crucial for maintaining seamless operations. Whether you’re in IT or any other industry that requires constant availability, the on-call system ensures that teams can respond to critical incidents efficiently. However, achieving optimal on-call management isn’t just about being available—it’s about collaboration, communication, and ensuring team health.

Unlocking the Power of IIS Logs: A Comprehensive Guide

IIS (Internet Information Services) is a web server developed by Microsft, shipped as a part of the Windows Server services. It’s used to host and manage web applications and services. IIS is a particularly robust web server solution that is tightly integrated with the Windows operating system, making it a natural choice for organizations that rely on other Microsoft products.

Mastering Your JFrog Artifactory Migration: Steps to Success

Migrating from JFrog Artifactory to a new artifact management platform like Cloudsmith can feel like a daunting task. We promise, it’s actually easier and more straightforward than you think! Our experience with other customers has shown that even if you have a complex setup with hundreds of teams and lots of binary artifacts, you can make the move to Cloudsmith fairly quickly. We can help arm you with a clear plan and best practices, so the transition can be seamless.

Our team's learnings from Kubecon: Use Exemplars, Configuring OTel, and OTTL cookbook

A few weeks ago, members of Mezmo were at Kubecon and attended several sessions. You can see a post with my recap and session highlights. Today, though, I’m going to discuss three sessions that my colleagues found interesting for our peers in Observability.

Make NetFlow Flow Without Breaking The Network

Ever wondered how many NetFlow exporters or edge routers you have configured on your core switches? What if I told you that every exporter uses ~0.2% bandwidth in overhead? While that may not seem like much (and it has been a few years since most network engineers were worried about CPU overhead for NetFlow exports), older hardware and network OS versions may be more sensitive to having multiple flow exporters configured.

Scaling Observability on a Budget with Cribl for State, Local, and Education

Over the past year, I’ve noticed some interesting trends in my work with state and local governments. Across my conversations with organizations in this space, there’s a common thread: teams are getting creative about maximizing their limited resources. With budgets either flat or shrinking and operational demands increasing, these teams face tough choices. They’re being asked to maintain or improve services while working with the same, or in some cases, fewer resources than before.