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5 Common Distractions that Risk Breaking up Your Product Focus

Maintaining product focus is the best way to guarantee a successful business. As the late great Steve Jobs put it: “if you keep an eye on the profits, you’re going to skimp on the product… but if you focus on making really great products, the profits will follow.” There are a wide variety of statistics available on how much time developers actually spend writing code, anywhere from 25% to 32%.

How to Implement Effective DevOps Change Management

A decade ago, DevOps teams were slow, lumbering behemoths with little automation and lots of manual review processes. As explained in the 2020 State of DevOps Report, new software releases were rare but required all hands on deck. Now, DevOps teams embrace Agile workflows and automation. They release often, with relatively few changes. High-quality DevOps change management is no longer a nice-to-have, it’s a must. For a lot of DevOps teams, this is easier said than done.

15 Tips for Better Python Performance

Introduced in 1991, Python has grown to become a versatile and reliable programming language for modern computing requirements. Python is a powerful language used in web development, data science, software prototype creation, and much more. One of the best qualities of this language is it’s easy to learn and uniform across many use-cases.

Stranded with Cherwell? Migrate seamlessly to Freshservice

Ivanti’s recent acquisition of Cherwell surprised the ITSM industry, and stirred up more questions rather than answers. These two legacy giants have competing ITSM platforms with overlapping offerings. How will the two converge? Which roadmap will they follow? What will happen to the customer experience? Uncertainty in the future of your IT investment brings about doubt and anxiety.

Logging and Metrics: Better Together

Logging and metrics may sound interchangeable, and you may think the information from one can be used in the same way as information from the other. But the reality couldn’t be further from the truth. Logging and metrics are two concepts you must use both independently and together to ensure your infrastructure and applications operate at their best.

A Day in the Life: Remote Knowledge Worker in the Everywhere Workplace

What is the typical workday of a remote knowledge worker in the Everywhere Workplace and how is the Everywhere Workplace protected? Through Ivanti Neurons, MobileIron Unified Endpoint Management and Threat Defense, you have the power, wherever you work and whatever you are working on, to connect securely anywhere and everywhere even when faced with challenges. Here are some examples of common challenges and methods used by threat actors: 1.

IDC Value Assessment Tool: How Much Value You Could Get With PagerDuty

Many IT vendors claim to provide value and help organizations strengthen their digital operations, but we wanted to go a step further and quantify our true business value. We recently commissioned a study1 with leading analyst firm IDC to capture and measure what kinds of results our customers are able to achieve by using our platform.

Creating a Fraud Risk Scoring Model Leveraging Data Pipelines and Machine Learning with Splunk

According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the money lost by businesses to fraudsters amounts to over $3.5 trillion each year. The ACFE's 2016 Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud and Abuse states that proactive data monitoring and analysis is among the most effective anti-fraud controls.

Splunking AWS ECS Part 1: Setting Up AWS And Splunk

It’s no secret that Amazon Web Services is a powerhouse Cloud provider, and one of the market pioneers in Cloud operations. They do, after all, power some of the world’s biggest and most modern systems we all use and love today. It’s natural then that they attract a lot of users both big and small to deliver high quality and effective solutions. With growing user demand comes the need for new methods of visibility and intelligence.