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It's Time to Rethink Observability and Rethink SolarWinds

Everyone in the information technology industry understands “change” is guaranteed. People are creative and constantly striving to find more efficient ways to solve problems and more innovative ways to deliver services to consumers. But keeping up with the constant cloud and internet technology shifts and taking advantage of all the new capabilities is a harrowing task for digital organizations.

GitLens 13 - GitLens+ Features for All on Local & Public Repos

GitLens+ is now better than ever. When we initially released GitLens+ in early 2022, a free account was required for access to features like the Visual File History and Worktrees. Since, we’ve seen that additional step as a hurdle for you, our users, to explore and use these rich new capabilities. Which is why with GitLens 13, we are very excited to bring the power of GitLens+ features, including the beautiful new Commit Graph, to ALL users on local and public repos. No account required.

Find and Fix Bottlenecks in Your Gradle Builds With OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb

Today, I’d like to share with you a new community-contributed integration that helps you optimize and debug your Gradle builds. This new Gradle plugin is available today, is free to use, and you can use it immediately with a free Honeycomb account.

Intel Optimization Hub

Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) offer an ever-expanding array of instance types, ensuring that for any given workload there exists the perfect hosting option that matches the exact needs of that app or business service. But with this expansion comes an ever-increasing challenge to match the workloads to the offerings – there are many things to consider.

Microsoft Teams Isn't Down Because of Microsoft. There's A Lot More Going On

Another ticket rolls in complaining about Teams service quality – calls keep breaking up, or the video quality regularly drops out. And when each one mentions that Microsoft Teams often does this, it’s easy to pass the blame. Sure, people jump to conclusions when they’re frustrated by tech, but the truth is that Microsoft Teams itself is rarely the problem.

Tracking website changes to receive alerts when new Calendly appointments become available

Teams and individuals worldwide use Calendly to help them with appointment scheduling without the hassle of juggling their calendars and conflicting meetings. With features like automated reminders and routing forms, it’s no surprise that it’s considered one of the best scheduling apps on the market.

Top 5 Takeaways From TechEx North America 2022

TechEx North America 2022’s AI & Big Data Expo, America’s leading enterprise technology exhibition, concluded with incredible insights across ML, cloud infrastructure, and big data analytics industries. Showcasing expert panel discussions, live demos and high-level presentations from over 250+ speakers, the convention highlighted five key takeaways — some innovations, yet some gaps in terms of big data progression.

Five Reasons to Use Base Container Images

Nowadays, the software development paradigm is based on containerizing applications to deploy on pods to let Kubernetes manage it. Containerized applications can then allow Kubernetes to manage its deployment, replication, high availability, metrics and other capabilities so that the application can focus on doing what it was designed to do. This technology is used for projects and by customers all over the globe.

Jason Chan on Harnessing Security Automation to Manage Cyberthreat Complexity

Torq is extremely proud to have Jason Chan on our advisory board. Jason has more than 20 years of experience working in cybersecurity. He’s one of the world’s leading experts in adopting security automation, cloud security, and enhancing security in modern software development practices. Jason’s most recent career experience was leading the information security organization at Netflix for more than a decade.

Don't Know What to Monitor? L.E.T.S. Start with 4 Metrics!

Software monitoring, how does it work? “We paid for a bunch of tools but we don’t know what we should be looking at. There are tons of charts that don’t seem to mean anything!” If you talk to people about software monitoring you’ve inevitably heard something similar to this. With so many possible metrics it can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. Even with curated dashboards there is inherent confusion about what is important.