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Organizations around the world are turning to DevOps as a way of working together to improve the efficiency and quality of software delivery and increase value to the business. But what exactly is DevOps and what does it mean for you and your organization? Welcome to DevOps 101. Our new monthly webinar series aims to explain exactly this. Each live session will be hosted by me, Grant Fritchey, starting with the fundamentals to expand your knowledge and understanding of DevOps.

A maintenance manager's job can be overwhelming when assets and pieces of equipment are in abundance. It becomes more complex when the management of assets is done manually. When work is done manually assets are not provided maintenance on time impacts asset performance and chances of asset failure are increased. That is why it is important to invest in asset management or maintenance tracking software.

It's hard to imagine a world without APIs. APIs connect our mobile phones or computers to do everything from making purchases and payments to interacting on social media, extracting or sharing data or any other computer to computer interaction in our business or daily life. If you want to open up a heated debate, ask one of your programming partners or developer colleagues what makes up a good API response time?

During the last 25 years, companies have relied on SMB protocol to allow them to collaborate and centralize corporate documents. These are the good old shared drives we all know well. Let’s take a look back at this technology for some good background.

Are you looking for ways to improve your business workflow? You need to start investigating workflow automation tools. With the right tool in hand, you can eliminate administrative tasks and focus on high-value customer-facing activities. Workflow automation is a powerful way to improve team productivity and unlock the growth potential of your small business. There has never been a more important time for businesses to embrace workflow automation tools.

If you’re working with microservices in a large distributed environment, you’ve probably got your monitoring and logging on lock, and you may even be lucky enough to have properly instrumented APM (distributed tracing) for consumer calls. But, did you know you’re likely still facing an observability gap? How many incidents have you worked that required hours of sleuthing only to end with a single team needing to roll back a deployment? It’s more common than you may think!

Ah, I too have wondered about this. TL;DR: The Resource says what program is sending these spans and where it’s running. You can skip it if you define OTEL_SERVICE_NAME in the environment. When I’m setting up tracing (for instance, in a Node.js app), I have to create a Resource object in order to set up the OpenTelemetry SDK: If I don’t define that resource parameter, then tracing will still work. But my spans will show up with aservice.name of unknown_service:node.

When are you smarter than your playbooks, and when are your playbooks smarter than you? That’s a question that engineers rarely step back to consider. The rational, disciplined parts of our minds tell us that the playbooks we are supposed to follow were carefully designed and tested, and that we should stick to them at all costs.

According to research by the SolarWinds® Pingdom® team, retail and e-commerce sites have plenty of room for improvement, as the global market generated revenues up to US$4.921 trillion in 2021. As more people look to the internet to make purchasing more convenient, online sales will become even more critical to businesses. What does this mean if you’re a seller?

The cloud is a solution that allows you to access data and documents from anywhere and from any medium whether it is a computer, a tablet or a phone. But is your data really secure? A secure cloud ensures the privacy, security and compliance of all stored data. All these aspects must be taken into account when using a cloud solution to ensure the security of your information.