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As you well know, many organisations are now moving to Office 365 in either a hybrid environment (Exchange on premise with Office 365 integration) or full cloud capacity. Yet, Microsoft still remains unable to provide much detail on how issues or outages impact your resources specifically – it's just not enough to know that globally "Some users or tenants may be affected". Your business needs to know if users are suffering and what proportion are impacted.

Gartner Catalyst Conference 2019 is consistently a great venue for learning, sharing, and connecting. OpsRamp was a silver sponsor at this year’s event and our seven-member contingent had a wonderful time meeting with industry thought leaders, demoing OpsRamp to senior IT executives, and having fun in the streets of San Diego. In this post, I will summarize the most interesting themes that stood out from the conference keynotes and sessions, as well as other key takeaways from the week.

Increasing sales is a prime goal of every online store. The entire efforts revolve around bringing users to a website and making them make the purchases, because a continuous decline in sales may make the business go bankrupt. To keep the business making profits consistently and progressing towards higher targets, the website has to be optimized in a way to remove every possible hurdle that is stopping the users from placing orders.

If you run an online business, then you know how important it is to establish a strong online presence. This is especially the case when it comes to starting a website. And luckily, there are a lot of platforms that make it easy for you to get started. Squarespace has gained popularity over the years due to how easily and quickly you can set up a new site. And the best part is, you don’t need development skills to do it.

BugSplat can now (as of 23-August-2019) create an issue in Github issues from any crash report or StackKey. Github Issues is a popular issue/bug tracker used by teams everywhere in conjunction with their Github accounts. You can learn more about Github issues here.

For many years I have been using an application called OSSEC for monitoring my home network. The output of the application is primarily email alerts which are perfect for seeing events in near real-time. In this post, I’ll be showing you how to build a good high-level view of these alerts over time with Loki, Prometheus, and Grafana.

Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) is an AWS service that helps build and run applications built on Apache Kafka. Kafka is a platform designed to handle continuous streams of small records or events generated from a large number of devices and applications.

In a world where technology is a growing part of every aspect of our daily lives, more people are moving into tech-based occupations. Whether it is software development, computer programming, software engineering or game development, the programming and technology industry is growing, and really quickly. But how can YOU be a part of it? How does one succeed in building a technology or software-based business? You can start by having a great SDLC!

If anyone asks: what is a patch? we have to abandon the semantic field of piracy and go to serious and technical things, so to speak.

“Nines don’t matter when users aren’t happy” is something you may have heard a time or two from folks here at Honeycomb. We often emphasize the fact that while your system can look healthy at a high level, deep down something is likely broken in ways that cause pain for users. If you are empowered to ask detailed questions about your services, you can find and understand these problems more easily.