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WFA: Visible - Microsoft Office Dashboard

The Microsoft Office Dashboard helps you to analyze usage trends and track adoption across your organization. It also allows you to speed up problem resolution by isolating application performance problems to the user’s device, the network, or the SaaS vendor’s back-end. You’ll be able to measure any performance variations when Microsoft makes app and infrastructure changes too. This provides some much-needed help to reduce finger-pointing! #TeneoGrp

Deploy Friday: E82 Enabling conversation - the design and linguistics of API documentation

APIs enable conversations, but how do you choose the right words for those conversations? We talk with three powerhouse technical writers and documentation managers, from Platform.sh, Splunk, and Sitecore, to get the best practices and frameworks behind world-class documentation.

Dashbird explained

Dashbird is an observability, debugging, and intelligence platform designed specifically to help serverless developers build, operate, improve, and scale their modern cloud applications on AWS environment fast, securely, and with ease. It’s free to use for up to 1M invocations and doesn’t require any code changes. Dashbird fills the gaps left by CloudWatch and other traditional monitoring tools by offering enhanced out-of-the-box monitoring, operations, and actionable insights tools for architectural improvements, all in one place.

Supervisors in xMatters - xMatters Support

Join Chris Patch, xMatters’ Senior eLearning Specialist, as he outlines the privileges of supervisors in xMatters. Supervisors can modify the user profile of any user they supervise, as well as can view their groups, change their login details, and sign out of the mobile app on their behalf if their account has been compromised.

Azure Security Tips & Tricks

In our very first episode, we have got Paul Stringfellow, the podcast enthusiast with proven ideas to help you enhance the security of your Azure infrastructure. This episode features an in-depth conversation of “why security” should be the top priority for any organization designing an infrastructure/application. Further, the expert shows how different it is to secure a cloud solution than an on-premise one, emphasizing that traditional security models are no longer the right way to protect complex cloud integrations.

Dashboard Fridays: Example SQL Samples Dashboard

Join SquaredUp's Adam Kinniburgh and fellow virtualisation expert Shawn Williams as they showcase this SQL Sample dashboard. This dashboard was designed to demonstrate how the same base SQL query could be used with each of SquaredUp’s visualizations. Each SQL visualization slightly modifies how the data is presented to target user requirements. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and Shawn's top tips for building it yourself.