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Just launched: Push notifications via Pushover. Get outage and recovery alerts on all your devices, wherever you are... It's already weekend. Which means time away from the keyboard, and hopefully less screen-time from our always-around electronic devices. You don't want to go to dinner wondering if your online services are up and running, and also you might want to tone down the number of times you check your email. That's why we added the missing link to our alerting system.

Performance is not something you should compromise on, and it's important to have a healthy development process that improves as your application grows. If your PHP application is not super-fast, it will be much harder to scale and maintain. You need to identify errors in the early stage to fix them as soon as possible. And if you don’t know where your bottlenecks are, you can’t fix them.

As the complexity of software systems explodes, so does the amount of data that gets generated by instrumenting these systems. This poses a problem for our users — especially those who are in charge of observability teams and observability platforms at large enterprises. They have to strike the right balance between cost management and giving teams the freedom to instrument whatever they want. Often observability leaders are supporting dozens of teams that are using hundreds of dashboards.

The webinar included a live demonstration of how our eG Enterprise solution provides an end-to-end view of the Citrix deployment including the Citrix ADCs, Delivery Controllers, License servers, Virtual App servers, Virtual Desktops, and other Citrix tiers including WEM, AppLayering, and others. Citrix Cloud is also supported.

Web server load testing is a very well-known process in performance testing. By testing your web server, you can pinpoint performance bottlenecks and improve your server performance. But what is the best way to load test a server?

What’s the service desk ticket that finally broke the camel’s back? Andrew Cohen (Sr. Manager, Digital Workplace Services at Cox) never had to find out – because he transitioned to a proactive service desk. In other words: a service desk that isn’t weighed down by growing ticket counts, reoccurring issues, and non-responsive employees. In a recent BrightTALK-hosted webinar, Andrew shared some of his firsthand experiences with building a proactive IT team.

Last year I started an IoT project, Plant Buddy. This project entailed soldering some sensors to an Arduino, and teaching that device how to communicate directly with InfluxDB Cloud so that I could monitor those plants. Now I am taking that concept a step further and writing the app for plantbuddy.com. This app will allow users to visualize and create alerts from their uploaded Plant Buddy device data in a custom user experience.