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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!

Debugging Gson, Moshi and Jackson JSON Frameworks in Production

Parsing bugs are the gift that keeps giving in the age of APIs. We use a service; it works perfectly in debugging, QA, etc. Then some user input that made its way to the web request, returns a result we just can’t parse. Unfortunately, there isn’t much we can do at this stage. We need to understand why the failure occurred and how we can workaround it and fix it.

Cove Data Protection Modernizes DRaaS with New Standby Image Feature

We’re please to announced that we’ve added a Standby Image feature as part of our Cove Data Protection™ solution. This enables us to deliver on the promise of cloud-first data protection as-a-service combined with business-class disaster recovery, by making it easy to create, manage, and report on virtual server images in the partner’s location of choice, ready for fast and flexible disaster recovery, without an expensive proprietary appliance.

How MoovingON Improved GreenRoad's Platform Reliability

When GreenRoad experienced a period of intense growth and expansion within a short time, the organization knew that it would need to upgrade its NOC support services to meet the standards of its new prominent and international clients. In addition, as their platforms rely on cloud support, finding a provider that could offer high availability and fast and efficient service was critical, and MoovingON seemed the perfect candidate.