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Profiling 101: Why profiling?

This is part 2 of a 3-part series on profiling. If you’re not yet familiar with the what profiling is, check out the first part in our series. By this point, you’re probably already convinced that good performance is important for your app’s success. There are many tools available for performance, but profiling in production with a modern profiling tool is one of the easiest and most effective ways to get a full understanding of your app’s performance.

Using SOC-as-a-Service to Bridge the Cybersecurity Talent Gap

As the cyberthreat landscape is getting more sophisticated, the need for skilled cybersecurity professionals is also rising. The recent 2022 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study revealed that, in the past year, the cybersecurity workforce gap (the difference between the number of security professionals required and the number of suitably qualified people in the marketplace) has grown more than twice as much as the number of actual cybersecurity workforce hired, with a 26.2% year-on-year increase.

A Snapshot of our IT Ops Predictions for 2023

Today executives and customers expect IT and digital services to be available and performant at all times; compromised availability or performance is no longer tolerable. Think about it; when was the last time a digital service was unavailable and it didn’t make the news or social media? When was the last time you visited a website that was unavailable and you waited for the outage to be over, rather than finding an alternative in the moment?

Communicating Context Across Splunk Products With Splunk Observability Events

When an IT or Security issue impacts a development team’s software how are they notified? Is your organization still relying on mass emails that lack context and most engineers have probably already filtered out of their inbox? Communicating between siloed tools and teams can be difficult. How would you like to put IT, Security, legacy processes, and business notifications specific to development teams right into one of their most important tools? Now you can!

The 2023 Network IT Management Report Part 2: Confidence and Automation

This is the second in a four-part series focusing on the findings from our 2023 annual Field Report for IT Management. We surveyed 4500 IT professionals from internal IT teams and MSPs across North America to gauge where their organizations are heading from a network management perspective. In part two, we’ll discuss the confidence IT pros have in their networks and how they can use automation to do more with less. You can read the full 2023 field report and compare your own IT statistics here.

How To Maximize Your First Salary Offer In A Tech Role

Tech jobs have a reputation for being lucrative, but they are also notorious for a high pay variance. Even professionals with comparable skills and experience may have a hefty salary difference. The figure can be even lower for beginners, no matter how skilled and qualified they are. So you must be aware of what you deserve and how to get it if you want to start your career in a tech role. Getting the right start sets you up for success, so you should not settle for anything but the best at the outset. Let us share a few valuable tips to maximize your first salary offer as a techie.