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The Ultimate Guide to Serverless Monitoring Platforms

Technology touches almost every corner of the world economy. Even when it’s an indirect relation, in many cases tech is an essential, vital part of our societies. It just can’t fail without causing too much distress and losses. Not only financially, but especially to the human aspect.

10 Computer Networking Books Every Network Manager Should Read

Let’s be honest: As a network manager, you’re responsible for knowing a little bit about everything when it comes to computer networking. From fundamentals to anticipating future tech changes, there’s a lot of ground to cover. To keep up, you need to keep learning. If you’re wondering where to start, this list of 10 computer networking books can help.

Sticking to Your SLAs with FireHydrant Runbooks

In today’s world, systems are increasingly becoming more and more complex. Due to this complexity, it’s no longer a matter of “if” our systems will fail but “when”. To manage expectations for when our systems do fail, we can look no further than our Service Level Agreement.

Cloudsmith Now Supports Conan!

We’re delighted to announce that Cloudsmith now supports Conan! As most of your know, Cloudsmith is universal. It is our aim to support all the languages and package formats our customers and prospective customers use. We think any organization benefits from being able to store, secure, manage and distribute ALL of their software assets in a single consistent manner.

Best Practices to Minimize Website Downtime

When a customer notifies you that your website is down, it has far more severe consequences than just embarrassment. Website downtime can mean loss of money, reputation, credibility and in a lot of cases, the overall feeling of security of your customers. As a survey report from Gartner showed website downtime can cost nearly $5,600 per minute to some companies. So, what are the issues that can cause website downtime, and how can you prevent it?

The evolving application lifecycle: from DevOps to DevSecOps

Every evolution in technology starts with the people behind it. So understanding the context, roles, and objectives that gave rise to DevOps — and now DevSecOps — isn’t just an exploration of timing and technology; it’s central to how we define organizational success. In this post, I’ll recap a conversation I had with Gareth Rushgrove, Director of Product Management at Snyk, a cybersecurity platform that helps developers identify vulnerabilities in their applications.

Contributing Third Party Flux Packages: A Discord Endpoint Flux Function

Are you currently using Flux with InfluxDB? Have you written a great Flux function that would be useful to the community? If the answers to these questions are “Yes!”, then I encourage you to contribute your awesome work to Flux, so that others can appreciate you and your work. Today, we’re sharing how you can contribute a custom Flux function in a Third Party Flux Package.

The right way to track technician performance

Amid concerns of resource scarcity and increasingly complex resolution processes, service desks are constantly under pressure to deliver more with less. This, in effect, forces service desk managers to drive technicians to resolve requests faster, leading to an unhealthy obsession with numbers. Several service desks are known to regard the number of requests closed by technicians as a good yardstick for their performance.

Monitor RethinkDB with Datadog

RethinkDB is a document-oriented database that enables clients to listen for updates in real time using streams called changefeeds. RethinkDB was built for easy sharding and replication, and its query language integrates with popular programming languages, with no need for clients to parse commands from strings. The open source project began in 2012, and joined the Linux Foundation in 2017.