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Civo Update - June 2022

In May, we hosted our first in-person community meetup speaking about all things Kubernetes. Community members came and engaged in cloud-native discussions with talks from Saiyam Pathak, Kunal Kushwaha, Josh Van Leeuwen, and Walid Shaari. We also featured in ZDNet’s article on the four-day work week which includes an interview with Mark Boost, CEO at Civo. This outlined how employees have attained a better work-life balance with the change as well as why the decision was made.

Tips for Optimizing React Native Application Performance: Part 1

React Native is an amazing framework for building cross-platform mobile applications. It helps you provide a high-quality, native-looking application that runs on multiple platforms, using a single codebase. The current React Native architecture uses the UI (or main) thread and the JavaScript thread. The JavaScript thread is used to run business logic, make API calls, process touch events, etc. The UI thread is where animations and transitions are done.

Ad Fraud: What Is It and How to Protect Your Firm From It?

Ad fraud is a type of online advertising scam that involves the creation of fake ads or click-throughs in order to generate revenue for the fraudster. Ad fraud can be perpetrated by anyone with access to an advertiser's account, such as a publisher, ad network, or even a malicious insider. Ad fraud can be difficult to detect and even more difficult to prevent. However, here are a few tips to help protect your firm from ad fraud.

Top 7 ITSM tools to help deliver a delightful support experience

If your company has more than a few employees, and if even one of you is the designated “IT guy,” you’re already applying ITSM in a small way. But as your company expands, you need to bring in more mature processes to derive the most benefits from your ITSM investment. Therefore, effective IT sinervice management has become vital to guarantee long-term success.

3 skills that can benefit you in your career

You might have been in your career or industry for a while and feel that you know all there is to know about working in it. The longer you're in a job, it's natural that you will get better at it. However, this doesn't mean that you are above learning new skills though, and there are plenty of skills that you could pick up which may help you greatly. Whether you choose to learn a new skill via the internet or in person, here are just a few that can truly benefit you in your career.

Where Does Middleware Stand in Web Development?

Before we go ahead with the topic, the readers must have some prior knowledge about web development and Middleware. As observed by its name, Web development is a field of computer science. The developers are responsible for developing websites, whether they are for the internet, intranet, single-page website, blog sites, or complete social media platforms. Middleware acts as a glow-in as it provides the path between the front end and back end of a computer or android based application.

Sales Operations: How to Increase Revenue and Business Growth

Sales operations are a critical piece for any business looking to achieve hyper-growth. It's responsible for creating sales processes and systems that increase sales efficiency and drive more revenue. In this article, we will discuss the role of sales operations in business growth, and how you can use sales operations to grow your company.

Monitor Amazon RDS Proxy with Datadog

For over a decade, Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) has been a popular managed database service companies have used to set up, operate, and scale databases for web and mobile applications. However, modern, high-scale applications can have upward of tens of thousands of clients. This means that maintaining direct connections between the database and application can quickly begin to consume more resources than the query executions themselves.

Monitor your Helm-managed Kubernetes applications with Datadog

Helm is a package manager that makes it easy to deploy and manage Kubernetes applications. Our new Helm integration allows you to monitor the availability and status of the Helm-managed applications deployed in your Kubernetes clusters. In this post, we’ll show you how you can visualize the status of your Helm releases and use monitors to notify you of important changes in your Helm environment.