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GitHub Action to deploy StackStorm to AWS

StackStorm is a powerful automation engine, but has a lot of moving pieces, configuration details, corner cases, and a steep learning curve. Many compare st2 with K8s and, indeed, you can spend weeks stitching things together to make the StackStorm installation and configuration pipeline fit your specific needs. Then you start benefiting from automation!

Reasons to Use a Virtual Private Network

A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is becoming increasingly popular in the modern age of digital connectivity and ever-advancing technology. A VPN is a secure network connection that allows users to access the internet without restrictions or censorship while keeping their data safe and secure. Here are some primary reasons you should consider using a VPN.

What is AIOps (artificial intelligence for IT operations)?

Deploying software to support the work of an enterprise is an increasingly complex job that’s often referred to as ‘devops.’ When enterprise teams started using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to more efficiently and collaboratively run these operations, end users coined the term AIOps for these tasks.

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Microsoft SCOM for Office 365 Monitoring? There Is a Better Alternative.

Gartner predicts that spending on public cloud services will rise to 21% in 2023. Most organizations today support fully remote operations and use SaaS services from the cloud. But is your Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) tool suitable for monitoring mission-critical services like Microsoft 365? Don't get us wrong - SCOM is a comprehensive monitoring tool for servers, infrastructure, and apps such as Exchange and SQL. However, the recently released Microsoft SCOM Management Pack for monitoring Microsoft 365 lacks clout.

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Increase customer retention & stop leaving money in the shopping cart

We all know the pain and frustration associated with broken software. It's no secret that the internet is rife with broken links, slow pages, and broken shopping carts, often feeling like it's being held together with glue and duct tape. These issues aren't just causing frustration for customers; it costs businesses millions. According to the Consortium for Information and Software Quality, poor software quality cost US companies $2.08 trillion in 2020. Every interaction between a customer and your technology is an opportunity to build or destroy trust. People tend to have a poor memory when things go right, but oh boy, do they remember when something broke.

Announcing HAProxy 2.7 and HAProxy Enterprise 2.7r1

HAProxy 2.7 is now available! Register for the webinar HAProxy 2.7 Feature Roundup to learn more about this release and participate in a live Q&A with our experts. Once again, the latest HAProxy update features improvements across the board, upgrading old features and introducing some new ones. New elements in this release include: What a list!

FluentD vs Logstash - Choosing a Log collector for Log Analytics

When we have large-scale, distributed systems, Logging becomes essential for observability, monitoring, and security. No matter what architecture (Monolith/Microservices) our systems have, they are complex due to the number of moving parts they have and the challenges they face around management, deployment, and scaling. In this scenario, Log management tools rescue the DevOps and SRE teams in order to help them monitor and improve performance, debug errors, and visualize events.

A Simplified Guide to OpenTelemetry

Digital services are increasingly built as a collection of components working in concert to deliver significant business functions. Understanding how these components of a system are working is crucial to reliably delivering a service. With many systems interacting, it can be difficult, if not impossible, to understand the state of your services and their dependencies without detailed data about how they function.