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Best Practices for Background Jobs in Elixir

Erlang & Elixir are ready for asynchronous work right off the bat. Generally speaking, background job systems aren’t needed as much as in other ecosystems but they still have their place for particular use cases. This post goes through a few best practices I often try to think of in advance when writing background jobs, so that I don’t hit some of the pain points that have hurt me multiple times in the past.

Uptrends and your CI/CD processes

If you’ve been following along, the last two articles explained the CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) processes. In this article, we look at how Uptrends fits into those processes. Uptrends can fit into your CI/CD process in several different ways. For example, you may want to use Uptrends for the testing and monitoring portions, include your monitor updates as part of your automation processes, or both.

Track any web performance metric with improved custom timings for Real User Monitoring

Over the past few years, we’ve witnessed a couple of key trends in the performance monitoring space. Adoption of single-page applications (SPAs) has continued to grow and as such performance monitoring is evolving. SPAs don’t offer the same existing web metrics like load time or first paint from the browser performance API. As a result, developers require more flexibility to track the metrics that matter to their end-users and business.
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Applying Observability - In Conversation with Nitzan Shapira of Epsagon

Today we hear from Nitzan Shapira, Epsagon CEO, about the latest exciting Epsagon product announcements, how Applied Observability is needed to make sense of ever more complex applications and environments, and how the role of Ops and Monitoring is evolving as part of the new "Cloud 2.0".

Splunk Ranked #1 in Market Share for IDC's Worldwide IT Operations Management Software Market Shares, 2019

We’re excited to announce that Splunk has been named the leader for both market revenue and market share in IDC’s Worldwide IT Operations Management Software Market Shares, 2019 report, having captured 13% of the overall ITOM market and achieving 32.3% year-over-year growth*. We believe this recognition speaks to the continued success of our customers, and we are so thankful for the opportunity to be a part of that success.

How to Expand Data Collection for InfluxDB with CloudFormation Templates

In a previous post, I demonstrated how to call InfluxDB APIs from AWS Lambda, but the setup is fairly manual and the results are not portable. Ideally, we as a community can expand and share ways to collect and process time series data. To that end, I want to share a CloudFormation template. CloudFormation is AWS’ infrastructure as code service that lets you define almost any AWS component in a configuration file.

How To Keep Track Of Your Android Applications

Keeping track of application usage and the installation of software on your Android phone or tablet is an essential activity, both for device management and your overall security. In this regard, it’s also advisable to monitor how your Android applications are tracking you, in terms of your physical location, activities on the local device, and online. Here are some tips on how to achieve this.

Enterprises that halted IT cloud migrations have been hit with 2.5x outages during global pandemic, new research highlights

Survey respondents who continued their cloud journey experienced less IT performance issues—Virtana and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) to present full survey findings during June 25th webinar

3 Reasons to Use Auvik's Remote Management Features

In today’s world, it isn’t always practical or possible to be on site to troubleshoot every network issue that pops up. Whether you’re under mandatory stay-at-home orders because of a global pandemic, in the middle of a surprise snowstorm, or sleeping cozy in your bed 60 miles away, being able to access remotely the network would make your life infinitely easier. With Auvik’s remote management features, it’s possible.