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5 Tips for Website Internationalisation

One of the main challenges we faced when developing Downtime Monkey was internationalization (or depending on your point of view: internationalisation, internacionalización, internasjonalisering). The aim was to provide our services to as many people as possible across the world - we learned a few things in the process and we thought we'd share some tips...

Stateless end-to-end testing for web apps using Chrome, Lighthouse, and Treo

This article introduces an idea of stateless end-to-end tests using Google Chrome’s Lighthouse and automatic snapshots. This approach enables fast development experience and tests availability, performance, and quality regressions. For practical examples the article uses Treo.

Goliath Technologies Announces New Application Availability Monitoring Software

Philadelphia | October 2017: Goliath Technologies is proud to announce the release of their Application Availability Monitor; this progressive technology will generate application/desktop availability and failure alerts, identify the root cause of issues encountered, and troubleshoot and resolve these issues prior to end users being impacted.

Hipchat Data Center presents: 5 surprising ways enterprise teams are winning with ChatOps

There’s this rumor going around that ChatOps was the invention of start-ups. I don’t know about you, but I can think of several enterprise IT/Ops teams who started using chat to coordinate and troubleshoot over a decade ago. (Ok, back then we called it “instant messenger”. But still.) So I hope I don’t spoil the rest of this post by letting you in on a little secret: if you’re in enterprise IT, you’re probably doing some ChatOps already.

How Samsung does lean ITIL with Jira Service Desk

The IT team at Samsung’s Austin R&D Center had the talent to be successful. Yet, there were bottlenecks getting in the way of their efficiency and productivity. Poor communication, lack of visibility, bad process, and unorganized tools were hampering their ability to support the rest of the organization and realize their full potential. Sound familiar?

We read 100 data breach notifications to make this guide (which we hope you'll never need)

Nothing fills out the “worst-case scenario” column quite like a data breach. For the countless teams out there who work hard to protect their customers’ data, the idea of compromising that trust is a nightmare. Data breaches are on a lot of minds lately with the 2017 Equifax data breach, which exposed personal data from 143 million American consumers. The company, security industry, and regulators have a huge task of working out the details on how something like this happens.