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Embedded Linux for teams

A Linux kernel for each developer team, which uses it to bring up target boards. Bespoke, built, issued, and maintained over years by the vendor. Teams that focus on building great apps, rather than figuring out hardware dependencies. Happy developers that bootstrap smart devices in no time. This is what highly productive embedded systems development should look like. Let’s unpack that vision.

5 Remote Working Best Practices and Tips in the Era of Coronavirus Pandemics

As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the world, the need has arisen for workers everywhere to adopt remote working practices wherever possible. Remote working presents many opportunities for both businesses and individuals to make better use of their time and enjoy a more streamlined approach to task delegation. Through the use of specialized software, such goals can be achieved without demanding more of individual team members or managers.

Solve storage monitoring woes with OpManager

Data in your enterprise organization doubles almost every year, and data multiplication at this pace requires boosting your storage capacity. But when the magnitude of data size increases, latency or performance lags are inevitable. You can outsource your storage infrastructure management to a third-party, but this might place your data at risk from security threats. The correct approach is to install a dedicated storage monitoring solution in your network. Fair enough! But is it essential?

The WebPagetest alternative you've been looking for

Have you been looking for a WebPagetest alternative for your periodic synthetic user experience testing? Uptrends has the free tools you need to check your websites. We love WebPagetest. Although recently procured and no longer independent, WebPagetest has been providing its free open-sourced testing service since 2008 (almost as long as Uptrends). The testing tool has helped many web professionals identify and fix performance issues, but you have other options as well.

Server-side Rendering in JavaScript: A Modern Approach

Let’s talk about SPAs. It all starts from a blank page which is subsequently filled with HTML and JavaScript. If we take PHP pages as an example, they already come bundled with the server, which is an advantage in terms of performance, right? For situations like these, server-side rendering frameworks (such as Next.js) come to the rescue. They process the code on the server-side to pre-fill the HTML result page with something (if not the whole page) before it reaches the browser.

Network Monitoring Just Became More Secure, Optimized, and Efficient

The entire Motadata team feels elated in informing you that Motadata Upgrade Release 7.6.400 has been rolled out and is available for installation from October 2020. We understand that many of our customers are already generating value, cost-efficiencies, and competitive edge with their existing Motadata version. But the update has been engineered to augment the entire platform’s value-proposition and making it an obvious choice for an upgrade.

Solving financial services regulatory challenges in Australia with Puppet

The recent record-breaking fine of $1.3 billion for money-laundering breaches exposed the dangers of poor systems in the banking industry. Now is the time to get compliance right. In my role, I regularly speak with FS&I clients about their security and compliance challenges, including vulnerability remediation. It’s a complex topic with many pieces that must coalesce to create a holistic solution.

How we eliminated service outages from 'certificate expired' by setting up alerts with Grafana and Prometheus

Here at Grafana Labs we are lucky to work with many partners around the globe. From these partnerships, we get great inspiration into some clever use cases on how Grafana and Prometheus can be used to great effect for service monitoring and availability. We came across this use case that our partner OpenAdvice came up with for their client base, and we thought it was too good to keep secret!

What is a single pane of glass?

There’s a new Azure agent in town – Azure Monitor Agent (AMA). I hear you saying, “Wait, aren’t there already enough Azure agents? So why another new agent?” A very valid question! Indeed, there are already a few Azure monitoring agents: the Log Analytics Agent, the Diagnostic Extension agent, and the Telegraf agent (and also the Dependency agent if you want to count it separately).

Streamline your procurement process with Purchase Order Management

In an organization, purchases in IT happen in huge numbers. It is one of the key responsibilities of the IT team to keep track and manage these purchases to optimize spending. But manually tracking these purchases and updating stock using spreadsheets is tedious. It causes blocks in the purchase order process and can lead to discrepancies and human errors. The problem is the lack of an efficient tool to manage purchases.