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A techy bedtime story: The tale of wizards, caves and how Serverless came to be

We’ve noticed interesting threads floating around the internet asking how would you explain serverless to a toddler. As it happens, we just turned three years old and to mark the occasion, we decided to take up the challenge and wrote a bedtime story, for serverless enthusiasts of all ages, about how serverless came to be, from the very beginning. It is a magical tale of the ingenious, life-changing journey that got us to a new universe called Serverless.

Improving the SSL certificate expiration alerts

We just updated our SSL certificate expiration alerting. This update gives you more control over where and when you want to receive these alerts. Before today, certificate alerts were set as part of "Alert Settings" tab, either globally or using specific settings for checks & check groups. This wasn't all that flexible and more granular control was already on our public roadmap.

8 Tips for SRE Wellness

When planning the SRE from home virtual even last month, one of the central themes was wellness and the need for self-care for SREs, especially during this time of crisis. Knowing how stressful an SRE’s day can be, combined that with a global pandemic and new working conditions, we knew we needed programming around SRE and IT wellness for SRE from Home. We’re all looking for ways to maintain a healthy work-life, but hearing this from your peers was especially important.

5 Key Areas to Focus on While Monitoring Microsoft Office 365 Services

Office 365 (O365) is an increasingly popular line of subscription services offered by Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Office product line. With Office 365, end users and organizations can use Microsoft Office software suite of products (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, etc.) over the life of the subscription. They also get access to hosted services, such as Exchange Online for email, Teams and SharePoint Online, among others.

Root Cause Analysis: Uptime.com Problem Solving Tools

You manage one of the world’s largest messaging platforms. It’s the middle of the afternoon and you are feeling confidence set in. Your company has recently beefed up its capacity, and performance has never been better. You’re about to step out for a late lunch when a drop in metrics starts triggering alarms. What do you do? *record scratch* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation…

Why Monitor Cloud and On-Premise Infrastructure together?

Data centers and cloud are undoubtedly an integral part of business continuity strategies of companies to run operations with a distributed workforce amid the lockdown successfully. The Covid-19 outbreak and the resultant work from home policies have pushed businesses across globe increase in adoption of cloud infrastructure services up by 80%. Managing the entire suite of enterprise technology is not easy for businesses that have several vendors on board.

ITOM podcast episode 1 is out! Learn the basics of VPNs to enable your remote workforce

The wait is finally over. The first episode of our weekly podcast series aimed to alleviate all your remote work hassles is out. The efficacy of remote operations depends on a robust virtual private network (VPN). VPNs help facilitate remote work by acting as a conduit between an organization’s remote workers and its private network. VPNs ensure a safe passage for the transmission of business-critical data and grants end users access to on-premises services to maintain operational continuity.

End-to-End Java Observability in 5 Simple Steps

Java is one of the most popular, flexible and useful programming languages with a very vibrant community to support it. Many of our customers use Java to create amazing applications, it’s an application on a single VM, or based on microservices running on Kubernetes. Naturally, we made it simple to understand the performance of Java-based applications using SignalFx Microservices APM.

How a Financial Services Leader Gained Visibility with DEM

Maintaining digital performance has always been a tough balancing act for the Financial Services industry. Every transaction must be encrypted and secured; customer data must be stored safely without the risk of a breach. Security is given the highest priority, the additional processes in the service delivery chain can tax performance. Financial service providers must go the extra mile to ensure their network is resilient with high performance, availability, reliability, and reachability.