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While working on the integration of CFEngine Build into Mission Portal we came to the point where we needed to start executing separate tools from our recently added daemon - cf-reactor. Although it may seem like nothing special, knowing a bit about the process creation and program execution specifics (and having to fight some really hard to solve bugs in the past) we spent a lot of time and effort on this step.

Revenue is a term indispensable in corporate talk. As it’s the largest number on the profit and loss statement for the company, revenue is frequently referred to as “the top line.” And business owners and managers are very attentive to this statistic. Businesses in all asset-intensive industries, particularly the power and utility sectors, are under increasing pressure to deliver better customer service, improve equipment uptime, and advance performance predictability.

My organization doesn’t want me spending time on instrumenting my product. What can I do? Thanks for the question! You’ll be relieved to hear that you’re in the majority, and also that there are quick (and easy) steps you can do to prove that instrumenting your code is worthwhile.

At CloudZero, we’re confident that we can organize cloud spend better than anyone else out there. For years, we’ve helped companies to efficiently organize spend, while overcoming traditional hurdles to visibility, like shared cost, incomplete tagging, and Kubernetes. We’ve helped customers who have struggled to attribute spend to do so in a matter of days — without saddling engineering teams with new projects or embarking on a resource tagging expedition with no end in sight.

The best customer tools for business consultants can elevate your consulting business and make it more efficient. If you are constantly looking for new ways to drive operational efficiency and streamline your workflows, you need to take some of the tools on our list for a test drive. With an abundance of tools on the market, there is no shortage of options to choose from.

For just about any organization, there’s a balance that has to be struck between absolute security and absolute convenience. Seemingly, every new innovation that increases convenience also introduces new risks. On the other hand, every safeguard instituted can also create complexity, delays, or in some other way diminish the user experience. Either way, businesses are exposed, whether to the catastrophic consequences of breaches, or of an erosion of user productivity and customer retention.

Let's face it: no one likes patching. When I was a practitioner, we always put off patching until it was absolutely necessary. Until a business need – such as updating an application version or support ending for a version – arose, we didn't patch because "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." We all know this is a bad practice; let's remind ourselves why. The longer a system goes without being patched, the more changes will accumulate.

It’s time for another publication of What’s New in Sysdig in 2022! I’m in charge of the “What’s new in Sysdig” blog for the month of July! Hello, I’m Tom Linkin, a Sr. Solutions Engineer based in the Poconos up in Pennsylvania. I joined the incredible group of people at Sysdig nine months ago and have been helping support sales in the greater NYC region ever since.

Sysadmins, short for system administrators, serve as a crucial subset of IT engineers and support staff and are often under-appreciated. Sysadmins are the lynchpins that provide continuity, performance, and security to the systems that connect every corner of the world. When COVID-19 scattered large workforces in offices across small home office networks, organizations relied on their sysadmins more than ever before to maintain work processes.

Today we are pleased to announce GitLab support on CircleCI. Teams using GitLab SaaS can now build, test, and deploy on CircleCI, and access CircleCI’s most popular features like Docker layer caching and automatic test-splitting. GitLab is now the third version control system we support, in addition to GitHub and Bitbucket.