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Shipa Insights - Engineering Efficiency Release

As we continue to build our vision around Shipa Insights, we are pleased to announce that we are now including engineering efficiency statistics along with the policy and security violations from our initial release. Getting started with Shipa Insights is very easy, Shipa Insights is there for you automatically. Navigate to the Insights Module and take a look at what Shipa has been keeping track of / discovering on your behalf.

Contributing Cool Community Content to Calico

It’s right there on our community page—the statement that “Project Calico is first and foremost a community.” With that in mind, we wanted to make it easier for new contributors to get involved. It’s a win-win scenario—developers experience less frustration, they can get their work done, and have their contributions considered. Plus, the project can easily benefit from the contributions.

Local Kubernetes Environments: Part 2

Kubernetes shouldn’t be reserved for production. Using local Kubernetes in development means you can build and test your service using the same technologies as your live deployments. Some organizations provide a shared Kubernetes cluster for development activities. Others offer on-demand virtual clusters that serve staging environments for significant changes.

Honeycomb Supports Service Ownership

The software industry is moving toward teams that own the services they build. This concept encloses principles and possibilities from movements toward microservices, DevOps, Agile, and Project to Product. In these paradigms, a team of people delivers software that provides valued capabilities. These capabilities help customers get their work done, support business operations, or enable other software to do these.

SPOTcon 2022 Recap

SPOTcon 2022 is an annual conference hosted by Scout APM that empowers developers with solutions that drive leading-edge transformation in application development and observability. This year’s event took place virtually and was an educational couple of days filled with insights into the current and future states of application monitoring and observability. Didn’t make it to SPOTcon 2022 this year? Not a problem! Here’s a recap of everything that went down.

3 Tips to Deliver Microsoft Teams Service Excellence

As we continue to see Microsoft Teams usage skyrocket, now more than ever, users are depending on Microsoft Teams service excellence to maintain productivity. But it can be challenging to deliver a reliable user experience in today’s modern workplace. There are many factors in the IT environment impacting Microsoft Teams performance, and IT teams typically don’t have full visibility into them, or the service quality delivered to end users.

Macs and malware, part 2: Are Macs more secure?

Are Macs more secure? If that’s not the very definition of a clickbait headline, I don’t know what is. Spoiler warning: While I have opinions, I’m not a security expert with multiple certifications or years of experience in the field. So, I won’t take sides as to which operating system is the most secure.

Prometheus vs Nagios vs Pandora FMS: Never before has such combat been seen!

You already know that in this house we love comparisons. Somehow you have to elucidate which is the best monitoring tool on the market, right? Well, this time we bring you the final battle between three great ones. Prometheus vs Nagios vs Pandora FMS. Nothing like that had ever been seen before in the ring! Let the bell ring!