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How Martello's Microsoft 365 Solution Supports the Return to the Office

The global COVID-19 pandemic caused a massive and immediate shift to remote work which was bolstered by video conferencing telecommunication software such as Microsoft Teams. Although the world is still trying to heal (while simultaneously navigating new and evolving challenges) some organizations have started the process of having their employees return to work and explore new hybrid workforce environments.

Windows System Monitoring Dashboard in 5 Minutes

This video demonstrates how to quickly build a dashboard to monitor a Windows system. The dashboard shows various metrics like uptime, processor and memory utilization, disk IO, network, etc. All the values are stored in InfluxDB for advanced analysis using full history. This video shows a whole end-to-end process that only takes 5 minutes. It begins with the Windows template installation and Telegraf agent installation and configuration that captures all the metrics from the monitored machine(s).

Dynatrace and xMatters Make Seamless Efficiency Possible - xMatters Demo

How can organizations integrate their tools into a platform that maximizes uptime and simplifies operations? Is it possible for the tools you already rely on to be more efficient? With Dynatrace and xMatters in tandem, the answer is yes! Join Rob Jahn, Technical Partner Manager at Dynatrace, Eric Maxwell, Solution Architect at xMatters, and Rutuja Rajwade, Partner Marketing Manager at xMatters, as they discuss how Dynatrace and xMatters can work together to make incident management and development processes more efficient.

How to Use Intelligent Query Processing to Boost Query Outcomes

Experienced SQL Server database administrators and developers spend years learning best practices within SQL Server and how to identify performance pitfalls in the query optimizer. Starting with SQL Server 2017, Microsoft introduced a family of features called “Intelligent Query Processing” to provide more consistent performance for your queries.

How Influencing Events Impact the Accuracy of Business Monitoring

Businesses are flooded with constantly changing thresholds brought on by seasonality, special promotions and changes in consumer habits. Manual monitoring with static thresholds can’t account for events that do not occur in a regularly timed pattern. That’s why historical context of influencing events is critical in preventing false positives, wasted resources and disappointed customers.

So much data, so little time: How your observability tool can help teams make better use of data

Digital transformations can entail significant shifts in technology, such as migrating from on-site architecture to cloud services, and these complex transformations generate massive amounts of data. Data transparency is a must-have, and observability with AIOps delivers the solution. Through a unified view of data, AIOps guides DevOps and SRE teams through the swamp of information

Serverless with AWS - Image resize on-the-fly with Lambda and S3

Handling large images has always been a pain in my side since I started writing code. Lately, it has started to have a huge impact on page speed and SEO ranking. If your website has poorly optimized images it won’t score well on Google Lighthouse. If it doesn’t score well, it won’t be on the first page of Google. That sucks.