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How to Monitor Azure VM Scale Sets

With Azure Virtual Machine (VM) Scale Sets you can automatically scale the number of VMs running an application based on the compute resources required. VM Scale Sets make it easier to deploy and manage a large number of Virtual Machines consistently and allow you to use and pay for the minimum resources needed at any given time, but they also introduce a few monitoring challenges.

Mattermost Raises $20 Million Series A Funding to Bring High-Trust Messaging to Security-Conscious Enterprises

PALO ALTO, CA, Feb. 5, 2019 (GlobeNewsWire) — Mattermost, the fastest growing messaging platform for engineering teams at large organizations, today announced that it has closed a $20 million series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures with participation by S28 Capital and Y Combinator. In just a few years, Mattermost has exploded in popularity as an open source messaging platform, with over 10,000 server downloads every month and a vibrant community of contributors.

We raised $20M to help make the world safer and more productive

Hi everyone, I am excited to announce that Mattermost has raised a $20 million Series A round led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from S28 Capital and Y Combinator. Mattermost’s mission is to make the world safer and more productive through open source software.

Web Page Monitoring with Pandora FMS, Python and BeautifulSoup

Among my multiple occupations is also contributing to edit Wikipedia, and there is a wonderful article about Pandora FMS where it is stated that we can do a Web Page Monitoring to extract, for example, the value of Google actions and alert if they fall below a certain figure. That is still true today, although many things have changed!

What Could Your MSP Do With a Power-Up in 2019?

Imagine if your MSP business had an elite group of advisors—made up of some of the brightest minds in the business—standing by to give you advice. Decades of insight and expertise on tap, there to safely guide you around pitfalls and share success strategies that have worked for them. Imagine the kind of boost that might give you.

Keys to Curing Your Employees' Digital Workplace Woes

Unless end users (EUs) are directly prevented from using applications, they are unlikely to report IT anomalies or malfunctions; it’s much easier to restart a program or click “x” to make the error message disappear than submitting a ticket. Every day, employees settle for small IT glitches which never go reported, giving IT departments the perception of smooth service delivery while, in reality, EUs are experiencing constant obstacles and frustration.

Containerizing Legacy Windows Applications

There should be no doubt anymore that containers are revolutionizing the world of application development and leading the charge for purpose-built cross-cloud and hybrid-cloud topologies. There are other virtualization platforms that solved problems in server consolidation and data center optimization, but in the new world of cloud and mobility, proprietary monolithic middleware may have had its day.

5 Reasons Why Your Web Application is Slow

One of the key pieces of wisdom regarding any kind of development project is that all software problems are inherently hardwaret problems. This is one among many reasons why devices like the iPhone and the Xbox have been so popular over the years. When software and hardware integrate properly, and code is written to specs that take full advantage of the platform, great things become possible.