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When it comes to system metrics, skip vanity and promote transparency

At Hosted Graphite, our users rely on us for a heavy-duty component of their business: monitoring their stack. This is a responsibility we take very seriously and we realize how critical it is for a user to know right away whether the problem detected is related to their own systems or to our system. That’s why we choose to publish our internal system metrics to our public status page.

18 Statistics That Will Make Healthcare Ditch Pagers

What do VHS players and Tamagotchis have in common with the pager? It’s simple, they’re old pieces of technology that were popular in the ‘90s. It’s no longer the “Saved by the Bell” years and doctors need to get with the times by ditching their hammer pants, fanny packs … and pagers! By saying goodbye to the pager, doctors can adopt a more secure, clinical communications solution that’s equipped to handle all 21st century hospital demands.

6 Powerful PHP Frameworks To Work With In 2019

Creating a website from scratch requires a lot of work, which is often tedious. In several cases, you will need to recreate the functionalities that you have built thousands of times. This recreation of functions is equal to reinventing the wheel. This is where software frameworks come handy, you can utilize such frameworks as the foundation for you application and build your program upon it.

5 Best Practices for Getting the Most out of RUM

More than likely you’re here because you’ve made the leap or are thinking of making the leap in investing in a Real Monitoring Solution. Congrats. You’re one step closer to having the power of user metrics working in your favor. Real User Monitoring is a way for your users to communicate with you how satisfied they were when they interacted with your website or webapp, so how can you be sure you’re listening correctly?

Master IE11 Developer Tools in 2019

Internet Explorer 11 is an updated version of the IE web browser developed by Microsoft. And if previous versions saw you move to other browsers, then this article will help you reconsider. The previous versions of Internet Explorer didn’t have a developer-friendly browser, but vast improvement can be seen in its latest version. The built-in developer tools in IE11 now make developing and debugging code in the browser a simple task.

From value-add to strategic partner: Technical Account Managers

When the National Bank of Canada set off on a cultural and digital transformation, the most important objective was putting people first, both their clients and employees. They needed better transparency and collaboration across teams, and knew that consolidating and standardizing their applications would help them achieve this.

Introducing Multi-Cluster Applications in Rancher 2.2 Preview 2

I’m excited to announce the release of Rancher 2.2 Preview 2, which contains a number of powerful features for day two operations on Kubernetes clusters. Please visit our release page or the release notes to learn more about all of the features we shipped today. In this article I introduce one of the features: multi-cluster applications. Read on to learn how this will dramatically reduce your workload and increase the reliability of multi-cluster operations.

Stackdriver Profiler adds more languages and new analysis features

Historically, cloud developers have had limited visibility into the impact of their code changes. Profiling non-production deployments doesn’t yield useful results, and profiling tools used in production are typically expensive, with a performance impact that means that they can only be used briefly and on a small portion of the overall code base.

Prioritize Errors that Matter with Sentry + Jira Server

Bugs are dumb. They’re also inevitable. However annoying that may be, it’s more productive to accept the existence of bugs in our workflows than to panic-spiral every single time they pop up. Part of the acceptance process is keeping bugs (or at least the ones you care to fix) top of mind by paralleling your error monitoring and your sprint planning.