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In this article, we look at the core concepts of SAP digital transformation, its role in enhanced decision making, and how hyperautomation could be the secret to creating a competitive advantage for your organization. Once seen as a costly legacy system for many organizations, SAP is no longer the ‘unwieldly’ application it once was.

Today, there is a need for every business to be digital, and technology as you know it lies at the heart of every business. Determining technology’s role in enabling and driving business success has always been a top priority for IT leaders. But these days, IT leaders are also faced with the added pressure of adjusting to the recent economic and societal changes, namely, remote work and employee mobility, to drive viable business results.

Linux Active Directory integration is one of the most popular and requested topics from both the community and our clients. On May 17 we delivered a webinar on the new AD integration features introduced with 22.04 (now available on demand) and following that we received an overwhelming number of questions. In this blog post we would like to address directly the most frequent ones

Welcome to Part II of this three-part mini-series on embedded Linux development on Ubuntu. In Part I, we set the stage for the remainder of the series and gave an overview of snaps, the packaging format at the heart of embedded devices running Ubuntu. Snaps are a secure, confined, dependency-free, cross-platform Linux packaging format. Software publishers often want to manage their application components using containers.

Celery worker is a simple, flexible, and reliable distributed system to process vast amounts of messages while providing operations with the tools required to maintain such a system. In this tutorial, we will learn how to implement Celery with Flask and Redis. Before we deep dive into the tutorial, let’s have a brief overview of Celery workers.

The article Healthchecks.io Hosting Setup, 2022 Edition was recently on Hacker News. I was answering questions in the comments section. Here’s a recap of some of the questions and my answers. I’ve edited some of the questions for clarity.

So far in this series, you have learned why it’s important to understand how to use the command line, some command line basics and shell commands, and all about running CLI-based applications and command line tools. In this part of our CLI intro series, you are going to learn the basics of customizing your shell user experience. In this part of the CLI intro series, we’re going to focus on.

Calico v3.23 is out, and with it a lot of new features! This release marks a long-awaited milestone for me and my team, as it includes the Calico VPP data plane (beta). So now seems to be a good time to reflect on what this integration actually is, and why we built it.

It’s funny how even today, in 2022, people still ask me if WordPress is a good choice for a high-traffic website. There are few website-building solutions on the internet as tested as WordPress. And brands like TechCrunch and The New Yorker wouldn’t be hosted on WordPress if traffic was an issue. But here’s the thing: WordPress is self-managed. As a result, you as an individual or organization using it for your business are responsible for monitoring your WordPress site.

At this point in my career, I’ve realized the responsibilities of database administrators (DBAs) and database reliability engineers (DBREs) can differ from company to company, from year to year, and even from quarter to quarter.