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Six tips on how Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) can prepare for the reliability challenges of Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2021

While there is a lot of focus on the three pillars of observability to provide insight into application performance in production, load testing is the other side of the observability story. By using the open source load testing tool k6 — which Grafana Labs acquired earlier this year — developers can simulate real-world traffic to test the reliability and performance of software changes and new features, not to mention flag performance issues before impacting end users.

When an incident strikes, an organization’s reputation and revenue, as well as customer trust are at stake. Assembling an effective incident response team is critical to minimizing the incident’s impact. But what exactly is an incident response team? Who should be a part of the team and what are their responsibilities? Successful incident responses require a team with a diverse set of problem-solving and communication skills.

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve acquired Specto, a powerful mobile profiling tool from ex-Facebook mobile experts who share our determination for building developer-first performance monitoring products that actually suit the modern dev stack.

Starting building Logic Apps thru the Azure Portal is, without a doubt, the most intuitive and fast approach. It doesn’t require any additional tool or software, it doesn’t require a Visual Studio license, and almost all beginner tutorials or documentation use this approach. And finally, all types of users are familiar with the Azure Portal. But not everything is perfect, and one of the most difficult best practices to implement is a proper API Connection naming convention.

Linux is an open-sourced operating system for computers, smartphones, servers, mainframes, and embedded devices. The main advantage of Linux over other operating systems is that Linux is an open-source operating system, which means that you can view, edit, customize, enhance, and share the code with anyone. The release of Linux garnered a huge community of contributors that created a variety of features and distributions for users at no added cost.

We’re excited to announce that a beta version of our Aiven for Apache Flink service is now publicly available for anyone to try. Find out more!

In 2010, American Express® launched #ShopSmall, the first national campaign to promote and support small businesses. The campaign culminates with Small Business Saturday, observed yearly on the day following Black Friday, a day that is classically a high traffic day for shoppers to spend big with corporate retailers. NinjaOne prides itself on being a vendor with small business roots, having started with humble beginnings and being led by a team of independent IT leaders.

We’re thrilled to announce that Frost & Sullivan has awarded the 2021 Asia-Pacific Company of the Year Award for secure remote access to Pulse Secure (acquired by Ivanti). In determining awards, Frost & Sullivan “applies a rigorous analytical process” that includes “detailed evaluation of best practices criteria.”

About one year ago the NETWAYS colleagues showed you how to let Icinga 2 notify users through XMPP/Jabber. Now it’s time to also cover the somewhat more fancy Rocket.Chat.