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Top 5 Takeaways From GDC 2022

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is a yearly event that brings together leading brands in the gaming industry to talk about trends in development and showcase new features and releases. One of the cool things about the conference is that it’s an excellent opportunity for gaming enthusiasts, aspiring game developers, and industry vendors to connect, network, learn and celebrate the achievements of the industry.

How to Identify Memory Leaks

You may not be familiar with thinking about the memory usage of your applications as a software developer. Memory is plentiful and usually relatively fast in today's development world. Likely, the programming language you're using doesn't require you to allocate or free memory on your own. However, this does not mean you are safe from memory leaks. Memory leaks can occur in any application written in any language. Sure, older or "near to the metal" languages like C or C++ have more of them.

Introduction of the ansible-collection-icinga

Ansible is a commonly known tool to easily automate deployments in infrastructures, its configuration is based on YAML and is able to scale in big environments. Icinga 2 provides its own secure agent to monitor hosts, high available satellite zones and monitoring configuration. To manage this monitoring environment we introduce you to the ansible-collection-icinga, this collection can install Icinga 2 server, configure monitoring and deploy Icinga 2 agents in your infrastructure.

4 Common Email Problems Businesses Face (And How To Fix Them)

Staying on top of deadlines, busy schedules, team organization, and customer needs are challenging. If you add some of the common email problems we discuss in this article, your list of challenges can rapidly grow. While it's helpful to have an IT department to deal with technical issues, it's a good idea to know how to fix some of them yourself, so let's get to business.

Write an Ecommerce Customer Journey

The ‘Add to Cart’ user journey is one of the most common ecommerce customer journeys used by website owners. For obvious reasons, ensuring potential customers can search, select a product, and checkout successfully is a vital function. Unlike ecommerce customer journey map tools, Synthetic user journey monitoring can assist in creating a positive customer experience by tracking performance metrics, and sending alerts if issues do occur.

Troubleshoot end-to-end tests with CI Visibility and RUM

Adding automated testing to your CI/CD pipelines can help you ensure that you deploy changes safely. But as you continue to shift left, the number and complexity of tests are likely to increase, making them slower to run and harder to troubleshoot. Datadog CI Visibility can help you track the performance of your CI/CD pipelines and tests—and now you can also use Real User Monitoring (RUM) to monitor end-to-end (E2E) Cypress tests.

Crossed 6k+ GitHub stars, enabled S3, better dashboards and webhooks - SigNal 11

Our dashboards enable engineering teams to take quick decisions. So, a good design is critical. We have been busy fine-tuning our dashboards to make them more user-friendly. Welcome to SigNal 11 - our monthly product updates where we update you on what we’ve been up to. Last month, we crossed 6,000+ GitHub stars, 700+ slack community members, jazzed up our graphs, and much more. Let’s see what humans at SigNoz have been up to in the month of March 2022.

Observability for State and Local Government: Top 3 Challenges and How Monitoring Can Help

State and local governments require a high level of performance and reliability for the millions of people accessing their web applications every day. The talent shortage and lack of resources to train their staff on how to use new technologies prevents them from drawing valuable insights from modern IT environments. IT infrastructure monitoring allows state and local governments to stay ahead of technology trends and face common challenges with intelligence and transparency.