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Popular CSS preprocessors with examples: Sass, Less, Stylus and more

As a stylesheet language, CSS has limited capabilities when it comes to writing logic, organizing code, and performing other computational tasks. CSS preprocessors provide a solution to this problem. While CSS has improved a lot in recent years with the introduction of custom and logical properties, math and color functions, new pseudo-classes, and other enhancements, there are still many good reasons to use CSS preprocessors.

Benefits of Monitoring for Cloud Security

Monitoring virtual & physical servers for potential threats or security loopholes is termed as cloud security monitoring. It helps identify these issues and rapidly respond to them, keeping your network safe. Cloud security monitoring best practices include automation for data, application, & infrastructure behavior monitoring and assessment. It helps in providing better access control & faster response time in case of a security breach.

My Perspective on CloudFabrix Collaboration with the Cisco Full-Stack Observability Platform

I am thrilled that CloudFabrix is a pioneering design partner for Cisco’s Full-Stack Observability Platform (FSO). The Cisco FSO Platform has been designed with a vision of providing a unified observability experience across all application and infrastructure aspects, thereby dismantling silos. The platform’s choice to adopt OpenTelemetry as the protocol for data ingestion via MELT opens up the possibility for comprehensive insights on the complete stack.

What's new in Avantra 23.2

It’s my pleasure to announce that the newest version of Avantra, 23.2, is now available for download through our customer hub. In this release we’ve focussed on bringing performance enhancements and usability improvements as well as enhancing our platform extensibility experience and bringing new automation templates to remove some of the mundane tasks that we know SAP operations teams get stuck doing rather than spending time on the more important stuff.

Webinar Recap: How to Get More Out of Your Log Data

Data explosion is prevalent and impossible to ignore in today’s business landscape, with organizations face a pressing challenge: the ever-increasing volume of log data. As applications, systems, and services generate a torrent of log entries, it becomes crucial to find a way to navigate this sea of information and extract meaningful value from it. How can you turn the overwhelming volume of log data into actionable insights that drive business growth and operational excellence?

Receiving MySQL database Alerts

Imagine your popular website or app suddenly slowing down significantly or even stopping altogether. You scramble to find the root cause while losing customers and income every minute. This stressful situation is all too familiar, but you can avoid it. Proactively monitoring MySQL databases can help prevent these issues and keep your performance at its best.

Case Study: Building an Operations Dashboard

Picture a simple E-commerce platform with the following components, each generating logs and metrics. Imagine now the on-call Engineer responsible for this platform, feet up on a Sunday morning watching The Lord of The Rings with a coffee, when suddenly the on-call phone starts to ring! Oh no! It’s a customer phoning, and they report that sometimes, maybe a tenth of the time, the web front end is returning a generic error as they try to complete a workflow.

Multi-Cloud - Rise of Hybrid Networks and the Need to Monitor & Secure Them

This model has benefits, but at the same time, it introduces complexity for the IT teams tasked with monitoring and securing IT systems. Existing network monitoring technologies that system admins use with on-premise infrastructure are typically not expandable to include infrastructure and services running on public cloud platforms. This is a problem as you cannot manage and secure what you cannot see.