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Puppet and Government: Adopting infrastructure as code

Government agencies are facing a rising need for changes to their IT infrastructure. This need is becoming even more urgent as they continue to migrate operations to the cloud. Leveraging modern cloud applications and resources within an existing legacy agency environment requires IT agility to maintain the balance of security while keeping pace with an agency’s mission.

How an integrated ITSM and ITOM platform can help you accelerate it

Accelerating the overall enterprise efficiency is not an easy task as you probably rely on multiple tools to communicate with customers, partners, employees, and vendors. There’s a chance that you’re already working with multiple software vendors to optimize your IT and network infrastructure. However, this can create chaos across your IT landscape – causing poor user experiences, disparate workflows, recurring IT issues, upgrading systems, and more.

Making the World's AWS Bills Less Daunting

Armed with a Ph.D. from UC San Diego, our guest started off with internships at Google and Microsoft before gaining valuable experience as a VP and a highly sought-after consultant for startups and SMBs. Now he’s one of the world’s foremost experts on wrangling vast data sets and maximizing efficiency.

How To Identify and Stop a Phishing Attack

Phishing is a real problem. One that can wreak havoc on your digital and financial life. Here, we’ll look at different ways we can identify a phishing scam and stop it in its tracks. Phishing is the practice of sending emails (or other messages) with the intent to make the recipient believe it’s from a certain company or individual.

Getting Started with OpenTelemetry for Observability

This article was published in The New Stack. For most developers, software development means there is an API for almost everything, hardware is provisioned via the cloud and the core focus is on building only the features most crucial to your business. Of course, all these integrations and modern distributed architectures create their own set of problems. Having full insight into your application has become even more important and is now commonly known as observability.

Cribl.Cloud: Are You Ready to Fly Solo?

Many years ago, I attained my private pilot’s license. This entailed completing a very structured program, similar to how most companies introduce a product to a new user. Let’s be honest, there is a really good reason for this – to avoid the crash and burn. With flight training, it’s literal, while with products it’s a bit more figurative (except when you YOLO something into production–that can cause a crash and burn–and leave for a bad first impression).

Introducing the new and improved Grafana BigQuery plugin

We are happy to announce that an official Google BigQuery data source plugin for Grafana has arrived! Based on the popular DoiT International BigQuery DataSource community plugin, the new Grafana BigQuery plugin brings a new and improved query editor experience plus support for all BigQuery data types, Grafana Alerting, and query caching.

3 Effective Ways to Enhance Patient Safety with EHR Alerts

Hospitals that adopt electronic health records (EHR) to optimize clinical workflows face the decision of how to integrate EHR alerts into their workflows. The rationale is to surface actionable data from EHR systems and present healthcare providers with this information to supplement their day-to-day clinical decisions.