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Understanding your application's critical path

Don’t wait for an incident to focus on reliability. Learn concrete steps for preventing incidents in the first place in our two-part series, Planning and Architecting for Reliability. It’s 3 a.m. You’re lying comfortably in bed when suddenly your phone starts screeching. It’s an automated high-severity alert telling you that your company’s web application is down. Exhausted, you open the website on your phone and do some basic tests.

Common IT Operations Challenges and How To Solve Them

IT operations are at the front and center of any enterprise in today’s world. With newer technologies, tools, and processes emerging every year, there is a proportionate increase in operational complexity. Adding to this, given the global remote work wave that we’re currently riding on, it is no surprise that IT operations are always kept on their toes. In fact, IT operations managers are one of the most sought after members of today’s modern IT enterprise.

How to Ensure and Optimize Application Performance

Application performance management (APM) involves managing the availability and efficiency of software applications by obtaining and translating IT metrics into business outcomes. Because application performance hiccups are inevitable, it’s crucial to have a robust APM solution in place so IT teams can resolve problems faster and more efficiently, lessening the impact on users and the bottom line. One factor muddling application performance optimization is the speed of change.

The Key Benefits of Service Monitoring

When it comes to delivering the very best services to your customers, consistency is essential! That’s why many businesses choose to implement a service monitoring tool that will enable them to get greater control over their services. As one of today’s leading network and server monitoring softwares, Pandora FMS is here to share some of the benefits of service monitoring.

The Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners (Part 1)

Welcome to the Serverless world. One of the first things you’ll hear about is AWS Lambda - and you’ll continue to keep hearing about it! While architecture can be serverless without Lambdas involved, it’s very often the key component within a serverless application. In the first post of this 3-part AWS Lambda Handbook series, we run through what is AWS Lambda, dialling back to basics with the various terminology, how to create a Lambda function and how to run it.

Virtana Offers Cost-Effective, Plug-and-Play Alternative as NetApp Sunsets OCI Monitoring and Optimization Platform

San Jose, CA, September 15, 2020 —OnCommand Insight (OCI) users worried about ongoing support, updates, and upgrades for NetApp’s legacy tool now have an alternative platform to migrate to that is operational in 250+ of the largest enterprises as a future-proofing multi-cloud solution, proven to avoid disruption. OCI users can immediately transition to VirtualWisdom by Virtana with plug-and-play ease and financial incentives.

Repository Webhooks: Notifications for DevOps

Webhooks, so what are they good for? Well, quite a lot as it turns out! Webhooks are great for integrating Cloudsmith with other systems that you use, by sending data or notifications to other tools in your stack and helping to enable automation across your workflows. I know what you’re thinking, this sounds a lot like an API right? Well, not quite. Webhooks are almost like a sibling of an API call. So, what’s the real difference?

An Introduction to Testing Robot Code

The myriad of different fields that make up robotics makes QA practices difficult to settle on. Field testing is the go-to, since a functioning robot is often proof enough that a system is working. But online tests are slow. The physical environment must be set up. The entire system has to be in a workable state. Multiple runs are needed to build confidence. This grinds development to a halt.

7 Best Software Options for Managing Customers

All businesses have some key goals in common: they must be able to help their clients and to generate profits by helping them. However, even if you do your best to focus on your customers’ needs and wishes, it can be easy to prioritize your business goals instead. The thing is that tracking your communication with customers can be very difficult. This is one of the main reasons why organizations need to have effective client management.