According to a recent survey by Gartner, business leaders anticipate a return to growth for their enterprises and industries in 2022, and a big part of their investment plans involve digital transformation. In fact, 20% of CEOs cited digital transformation as a priority for strategic investment. That is a significant shift from 2012 when Gartner found that only 2% of CEOs surveyed had made digital transformation a priority.
On October 4, Facebook and its properties, Instagram and WhatsApp, were down for more than five hours due to configuration changes on routers in Facebook’s data centers. A five-hour outage is an eternity in our always-on digital economy, costing the company an estimated $65 million and 4.8% in stock valuation. The high-profile Facebook outage is emblematic of just how digitally intermediated our economy is becoming, and the incident renews C-level focus on preventing similar service failures.
.NET is a popular open source, cross-platform development framework for building fast and scalable full-stack applications for the web, desktop, mobile, and the cloud. This flexibility makes.NET a leading platform for developing enterprise web applications and makes.NET development one of the most in-demand skills on the market.
AppSignal users will immediately notice that we’ve updated our product navigation. The new navigation is simpler, cleaner, and improves usability for (power) users. Let’s dive into these changes, along with some background on our philosophy of designing for developers.
Welcome back to another iteration of “Build Things on Purpose” where we talk with developers and engineers who are creating tools that help us build more reliable systems. Today Itiel Shwartz, CTO and Co-Founder of Komodor, has joined us to chat about what they’re doing to help tame the chaos of Kubernetes. Itiel talks about Komodor’s goal of making troubleshooting Kubernetes not only easy, but potentially even fun!
Written by Microsoft MVP Nick Cavalancia. Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the 2022 rollout of Mesh for Microsoft Teams as the next step in online and virtual collaboration. This seemingly bold step forward into a new type of interaction between individuals is more a natural evolution, taking years of augmented reality research and applying it in a way that provides value to organizations wanting to better collaborate.
Have you heard about the Puppet Practice Labs? Our free, browser-based, hands-on labs cover a variety of topics for getting started with Puppet — everything from installing the primary server to identifying server roles using package data collection, and much, much more. You can read more about them in my previous blog post. We’ve designed Puppet Practice labs to make learning Puppet fun, engaging, and memorable for learners of all levels.
Epinio, the application development engine for Kubernetes, is meant to take you from app to URL in one step. It does that by either applying buildpacks to your app or using a pre-built docker image. Epinio installs into any Kubernetes cluster to bring your application from source code to deployment and allow for developers and operators to work better together.