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How to observe your Asterisk instance with Grafana Cloud

Observability and monitoring is a fundamental part of the contact center environment. When there are thousands of live voice and other multi-channel interactions happening, it is crucial to keep a close eye on the system because any issue in service gives an instant blow to the customer experience. Asterisk is a free and open source framework for building communications applications and is sponsored by Sangoma.

Are your SLOs realistic? How to analyze your risks like an SRE

Setting up Service Level Objectives (SLOs) is one of the foundational tasks of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, giving the SRE team a target against which to evaluate whether or not a service is running reliably enough. The inverse of your SLO is your error budget — how much unreliability you are willing to tolerate.

Canonical Kubernetes 1.24 is now generally available

We consistently follow the upstream release cadence to provide our users and customers with the latest improvements and fixes, together with security maintenance and enterprise support for Kubernetes on Ubuntu. This blog is a quick overview of the latest development highlights that are made available in Canonical Kubernetes 1.24 as well as a look at our favourite upstream enhancements.

Cost optimised private cloud for financial services

Regulatory compliance and data privacy requirements require financial institutions (FIs) to consider carefully where their applications are running and where the customer data is stored. The data protection and data sovereignty laws in most countries require an enterprise to keep data in certain geographic locations. PCI Data Security Standard, for example, regulates the way the customer and financial transactions data is stored and transmitted.

Shifting From ITOps to AIOps: Capgemini's Transformational Journey

In a hyper-digital world, business transformation is vital for all organizations to compete and deliver against business and customer demands. If you aren’t innovating and moving forward, you are falling behind as the competition and new market entrants are surely adopting technologies that give them the agility to meet needs and expectations. That means the challenge isn’t just about keeping pace, but about leading the way.

31+ Best Software Development Tools (Organized By Category)

A software development life cycle (SDLC) is the sequence of steps a software project moves from conception to completion. The SDLC process specifies how to build, test, maintain, and improve specific software. Modern software development life cycles typically involve five to seven stages, depending on the model you use. Today, the SDLC comprises eight major models, from the traditional Waterfall approach to the ultra-modern Spiral Model.

Reimagining training and certification: A customer zero story

Activity on Now Learning, ServiceNow’s learning platform for training and certification, is on the rise. Total logins rose 25% between 2020 and 2021, and on-demand course completion increased 43%. As ServiceNow revenue continues to grow at 30% per year, the demand for skilled administrators, developers, and architects is rapidly increasing.

Wearables Are Hot! And Zebra's WS50 Is No Exception with Velocity

A new generation of wearable computers has entered the market. These new devices are the result of technology convergence, which is the tendency for technologies that were originally unrelated to become more closely integrated and even unified as they advance.