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Whether you are a Site Reliability or Network Engineer, or simply involved in monitoring a digital service, you know by now that if DNS is not working properly – your users are experiencing an outage. However, despite its importance in ensuring the resilience and availability of the web, DNS is often not monitored correctly, which can mean undetected outages and any associated ripple effects on your business.

“Give customers the power to help themselves. Self-service options allow for faster problem resolution while reducing strain on your support teams.” – our friends at ServiceNow Self-service is a crucial component to any DevOps strategy. Many IT organizations still depend on manual and ticket-driven workflows with strong reliance on dedicated teams to make simple and frequent change requests. Unfortunately, these traditional models don’t scale.

Nothing screams “corporations run the world” quite like Black Friday. A holiday built on shopping, bargain hunting, and tailgating at the mall at five in the morning. There really is nothing quite like Black Friday. And though Internxt loves bashing on the powers that be, we too are offering a wild Black Friday and Cyber Monday deal this year. So to celebrate the shop-till-you-drop shenanigans, we’ve put together a list of the best Black Friday memes on the internet.

In Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge, you can operate on your observability event data in flight, all the way down to the field level. Instead of writing complex regex to wrangle JSON and other structured formats, use Cribl’s built-in functions and extensibility to get the results you want. You’ll see formerly complex situations become easier to address and manage over the long term. In this blog, we’ll cover two troublesome use cases.

In 2011, a Netflix engineering team introduced the concept of chaos engineering with its release of Chaos Monkey. This was initially an in-house tool developed to orchestrate fault injection that Netflix eventually made open source. However, the reliance of Chaos Monkey on Spinnaker, another Netflix engineering innovation, establishes some limitations.

Since the addition of custom fields to Ninja, we’ve had the ability to read-from and write-to device-level custom fields via scripts and the terminal. Organization-level custom fields (available as part of Ninja’s documentation functionality) have always been readable via scripts, but up till now they have not been writable.

We're happy to announce that InvGate has recently obtained SOC 2 certification, reinforcing our commitment to data security and compliance. SOC 2 is a rigorous security standard that examines an organization's control objectives and tests how well they are implemented. Developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), it consists of a third-party audit that evaluates how companies around the world handle data privacy.

There is a key difference between having more data and having more answers. That was the theme for Kentik at Networking Field Day 29.

This post, authored by CircleCI Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager Jacob Schmitt, was originally published on The New Stack. One of the privileges of working in the continuous integration space is the unique perspective it offers into how software teams organize their work to deliver value quickly without sacrificing quality, security, or developer happiness. At CircleCI, we support more than 2 million developers running 90 million build, test, and deploy jobs each month.

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality,” according to organizational consultant Warren Bennis. As a leader, you need to have a vision that you can bring to life for your employees, customers, partners, and investors. That’s why we created the CEO Dashboard.