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To build applications in AWS Lambda, you often need to use third party libraries and packages in your function code. Previously, these packages had to be included in a function’s deployment package. Today, Amazon Web Services released a new feature called Layers to simplify this process for Lambda developers. Layers allow you to deploy common components that you can reuse across functions, such as machine learning models, SDKs, or instrumentation libraries.

Lighthouse is an open-source quality testing tool built by Google. Normally run on command line or through browser DevTools, Lighthouse analyses a given url and performs a series of audits. Lighthouse tests on a number of broad categories, including: Performance, Progressive Web App (PWA), Accessibility, Best Practices, Search Engine Optimisation. Schedule a daily audit of your website or app with Google Lighthouse, the latest addition to our fantastic Intelligent Page Monitor tool.

We’re happy to announce a second update release this month of our VMware Management Pack for SCOM 2012/2016.

We’re happy to announce a new update release of our Oracle Management Pack for SCOM 2012/2016.

Among the new features of the new Pandora FMS 729 update package is the update to PHP 7, new custom fields views and API improvements among others.

In the IT world, if a server can fail or traffic can overload the network – it will. And the consequences of downtime are significant. Many IT organizations face database, hardware, and software downtime that last short periods or can shut down the business for days. According to Gartner, the average cost of network downtime alone is $5,600 per minute. What measures can organizations take to reduce IT downtime?

With the advent of social media platforms and accessible smartphone devices, the world has become smaller than ever before. This has lead websites and online services to the obvious necessity of localization. Translating an entire website into numerous languages, coupled with constant updates needed to make them relevant has led many companies to concern.

Investing in a log analysis tool provides many benefits: it saves time needed to detect and troubleshoot a problem, reduces churn by providing a better user experience, and improves system security. There is a wide scope of use cases for log analysis - from tackling security and performance issues head-on to enhancing the quality of your services. What are some of the most common use cases for log file analysis?

LogDNA today announced a new offering that enables developers to troubleshoot coding bugs and quickly fix development errors in applications, potentially saving businesses millions of dollars in development hours, downtime and associated revenue loss. IBM Log Analysis with LogDNA integrates LogDNA services to allow developers to aggregate all their log data across applications in the IBM Cloud.

Lambda layers and runtime API are two new feature of AWS Lambda which open up fun possibilities for customizing the Lambda runtime and enable decreased duplication of code across Lambda functions. Layers lets you package up a set of files and include them in multiple functions. Runtime API provides an API for interacting with the Lambda service function lifecycle events which lets you be much more flexible about what you run in your Lambda.