Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Learning how to fly. Again. Because certain technologies and processes can always be optimized. Take laptops, for instance (I always wanted to become a laptop designer!). From foldable screens to computers that incorporate e-readers, we are always pushing for new designs that address ergonomic requirements but also improve the way we work. We are doing the same with drones. This month features innovations that dare to challenge the status quo of how we fly.

Today, hundreds, if not thousands, of businesses globally outsource their software development projects for various reasons. In 2022, Gartner predicts that global IT outsourcing linked to remote work will reach $456 billion, a jump of 6.8% from 2020. The cost of developing a digital product with an outsourced team may appear to be much cheaper than with an in-house team.

There’s little doubt that cloud computing is now the absolutely dominant force across enterprise computing. Most companies have switched from buying their own hardware and software to renting both from vendors who host their services in vast anonymous data centers around the globe.

Welcome to the 6th edition of Open Source Matters: our regular publication about the latest happenings in open source! Let’s dive into the news.

As more and more IT organizations move towards containerized workloads and services, it is more important than ever to have insight into the containers and the services running within. Leading the container orchestration charge is Kubernetes (aka k8s – the 8 represents the letters omitted from the middle of the word). In fact, about two-thirds of IT engineers have seen their Kubernetes option increase during the pandemic as there becomes more need for scaling and performance.

An overview of how SREs can benefit from Infrastructure-as-Code.

Bitbucket Pipelines provides a feature that enables you to configure memory in Docker services (learn more on that here). We have related highly voted suggestion where customers would like to configure multiple Docker services, each with different memory configurations. Here’s a working example of how you can set memory limits to multiple Docker services and use the appropriate service depending on the step requirements.

It is no secret that software development is becoming an increasingly complex process. The individual elements of software like apps, libraries, and services are interconnected and dependent on many other elements. Development teams deal with a whole ecosystem of services that they develop, maintain, or depend on, which in turn are dependent on other software ecosystems, maintained by separate teams. Maintaining this ecosystem is as complex as you might imagine.

Site24x7 is one of the oldest website monitoring services, having been in operation since 2006. They are now owned by Zoho. They provide website monitoring, server monitoring, and application monitoring. Clients include Groupon, Getty Images, Xerox, and Harley-Davidson.

SAP is one of the most business critical enterprise applications. As a result, keeping it secure is a top priority for managed service providers. In the last year SAP has notified its customers of multiple high risk vulnerabilities, through its SAP HotNews email alerts, which require urgent patching – but the challenge for MSP clients is to know “do these impact me?”