In the webinar, Expert Insights: Navigating Outages Like a Pro, Howard Beader, VP of Product Marketing at Catchpoint, interviewed Howard Holton, the CTO and Lead Analyst at GigaOm. The two Howards delved deep into the critical subject of Internet Resilience and its significance in today’s digital age. Here’s a recap of the key takeaways.
Software development, agility and efficiency are paramount. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices have revolutionised the way we build, test, and deploy software. When coupled with the power of Kubernetes, an open-source container orchestration platform, organisations can achieve a level of deployment excellence that was once only a dream.
The wait for the latest macOS 14 update is finally over. The newest macOS Sonoma update comes with a plethora of security and privacy features intended to make your computing environment safer. Apple users can now explore new video conferencing features and advanced game mode, enable password and passkey sharing, and so much more. While there’s plenty of excitement that comes with an update like this, it’s important to proceed with caution.
Backstage is a platform for building developer portals. Originally developed internally at Spotify, it’s now open source and available through GitHub. Backstage allows DevOps teams to create a single-source, centralized web application for sharing and finding software (through the software catalog feature), as well as templates and documentation.
On the new item list page, for Advanced and Enterprise customers we are introducing the ability to store a collection of applied filters as a named Saved View, so that users can quickly switch between different configured views of their items. For users with a large number of projects, switching between the different views of the data they are interested in can be a time-consuming manual process.
For many site managers, a website’s availability is crucial to your online presence. Whether you’re running an e-commerce store, a blog, or a corporate website, keeping it accessible to users around the clock is essential for success. You might have heard the term High Availability before (or HA); this is the holy grail for websites. It refers to your website’s ability to remain operational and accessible even when faced with disruptions or failures.
OpenTelemetry (OTEL) is an observability platform designed to generate and collect telemetry data across various observability pillars, and its popularity has grown as organizations look to take advantage of it. It’s the most active Cloud Native Computing Foundation project after Kubernetes, and it’s progressing at an immense pace on many fronts. The core project is expanding beyond the “three pillars” into new signals, such as continuous profiling.
The business challenges organizations face today are enormous: increased efficiency, lower costs, supply chain resilience, revenue growth, talent retention, and digital fragmentation. A modern enterprise needs an adaptable operating model to support its business goals. This requires a range of data, analytical, and AI capabilities to reach the desired business outcomes—from simple to cutting edge.
