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Advertising-driven revenue models have become increasingly appealing to businesses across various sectors in recent years. This approach has gained significant traction among retailers, grocers, and commerce intermediaries seeking to diversify their income streams. However, the rapid evolution of these markets has often led to operations marked by manual interventions, disjointed systems, and fragmented data workflows.

The latest report from the International Data Corporation (IDC) co-sponsored by Canonical and Google Cloud indicates that 36% of organizations adopt open source to improve development velocity, and 7 in 10 organizations see open source as extremely important to run mission critical workloads. However as open source adoption grows, organizations face increasing difficulty in securing and maintaining their software supply chains.

Starlink moves beyond being strictly a direct-to-consumer service provider with the recent activations of its Community Gateways. In recent months, Starlink has become a transit provider to a small but growing number of service providers in remote parts of the world as its unique and groundbreaking service continues to evolve.

As modern IT systems grow in complexity, IT operations teams have to work harder to ensure reliability. "What gets measured gets managed" is a management mantra that emphasizes the role of metrics in management. To ensure everything works well, operations teams need service-level objectives (SLOs). This industry term measures how an application meets the agreed-upon quality and reliability standards, serving as a bellwether of good software.

Picture a busy Monday morning. You are working on leftover projects from the previous week, and assuming everything is fine with your applications as you had not received support tickets during the weekend. All of a sudden, during the middle of the day, you get a flood of reports from users who complain about slow response in your application and error pages piling up. You and your team are scrambling hard to figure out the issue.

If you haven’t heard already (which would be shocking considering the numerous posts I’ve seen on Reddit) Opsgenie’s end of life is right around the corner. This means there is no better time for Opsgenie users to explore alerting and on-call management tools outside of the limited alternatives provided by Atlassian. So, I felt now is a better time than any to address the needs of those affected by the dissolution of Opsgenie and reveal why OnPage should be your new platform of choice.

When it comes to handling routine IT tasks, runbook automation has long played a central role. Traditionally designed to schedule and execute jobs across systems like ERP and CRM platforms, these tools were essential in an era when batch processing and time-based triggers ruled the day. But the world has changed. Modern IT environments demand real-time responsiveness, intelligent automation, and event-driven execution.

In today's always-on world, your website or application is the lifeblood of your business. Downtime isn't just an inconvenience; it's a threat to your reputation, customer loyalty, and bottom line. As we highlighted in our recent article on MTTR, quickly resolving incidents is crucial. But equally important is how you communicate those incidents to your users. That's where status page templates come in.

Today we're introducing bulk editing for monitors, making it easier than ever to update multiple monitors simultaneously. This powerful new feature helps you efficiently manage your monitoring setup at scale.

Monitoring is the backbone of any reliable DevOps setup. And if you’re working with monitoring, you’ve likely used Prometheus. This open-source powerhouse has redefined how we track system performance, but are you making the most of its API? Prometheus is the go-to solution for monitoring container-based environments, particularly in Kubernetes. Its pull-based model and flexible query language provide deep visibility into your systems.