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The problem with a majority of governance models is that they aren’t continuous. As development teams adopt cloud native technologies and evolve to more agile methods, such as continuous flow and continuous iteration, they are up against decades of policy that assume an older model and don’t fit into a month-long sprint. While governance models need to be restructured, if they’re too restrictive, it can discourage developers and prevent innovation.

Recently, it seems like tech companies are coming out with new hardware, software and applications on a daily basis, making it a little hard to keep up with the most current development trends. This is especially important when it comes to application monitoring because it can drastically affect your business as well as the usability of the applications you employ on a daily basis. Pandora FMS wants to offer you some insight into why monitoring is so important, so take a look!

Elastic Cloud recently introduced full FedRAMP authorization at the Moderate Impact level on AWS GovCloud (US). This brings the speed, simplicity, and security of Elastic Cloud to federal organizations and other customers in highly regulated environments. If you're a new or existing user who handles data for a US federal, state, or local government entity — or an educational institution — you can sign up for Elastic Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) today.

My latest product Apex Logs is now in open beta! Apex Logs is a structured and plain-text log management solution, with a minimal design, simple API, a rich query language, and flexible alerting integrations. On top of that Apex Logs currently has the most competitive pricing in the industry, up to 10 times more cost-effective than the offerings from Papertrail, Loggly, DataDog, and others at only $0.40/GB (ingested). Let’s take a look!

As Australia prepares for the challenge of returning to the physical office, organisations nationwide are considering the best course of action when it comes to ensuring that their workers have the most adaptable and flexible approach possible. The year has been unpredictable and frightening, both on a societal and governmental level. Some companies have managed to weather the storm while others have struggled, and ultimately challenging times are as much ahead of us as they are behind us.

Before we can talk about the nuts and bolts of cloud transformation, it’s important to make the distinction from digital transformation. The two are often conflated, and while they are related, they are not the same—the cloud is the enabler of digital transformation. If you’re starting from scratch, cloud-native is the way to go.

This article will focus on debugging JavaScript code within Google Chrome’s Developer Tools. Chrome’s Developer Tools are extremely powerful and will almost certainly speed up your troubleshooting process. We’ll be using Raygun Crash Reporting to find the stack trace and the line of code the error occurred on. You can sign up for a free 14-day trial here. So, let’s dive in!

Gear up as The ITOM podcast returns with an all new episode specially tailored to help ease all your remote work woes in an IT environment. In the last episode, we discussed VPNs, their protocols, and the advantages of using a VPN in the remote work setting. Episode 1 helped set the stage for us to dive deeper into the nuances of VPN security and encryption. Encryption helps transform confidential information into cipher text or coded text for safe transit across secure VPN tunnels.

Anything bad that can happen — will happen. This old adage applies 100% to the technology industry, where crashes and outages are far more common than the sales and marketing teams would want us to think. However, DevOps engineers that deal with infrastructure know how hard it is to ensure everything works as intended all of the time — and to configure monitoring that actually keeps track of a system’s health and helps prevent crashes and downtime.

As more organizations move to the cloud, the volume of machine generated data has grown exponentially and is increasingly important for many teams. Software engineers and SREs rely on logs to develop new applications and troubleshoot existing apps to meet reliability targets. Security operators depend on logs to find and address threats and meet compliance needs. And well structured logs provide invaluable insight that can fuel business growth.