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The Confident Commit | ep. 11 Observability and CI/CD: meaningful measurement with Charity Majors

Rob sits down with Charity Majors to discuss the journey to creating Honeycomb, business building practices, and the importance of proper CI/CD and monitoring. Charity gives us the latest insights on observability and the necessities for engineering team success. What metrics are meaningful for your team to measure? Which ones are not? Tune in today to find out. Watch, learn, and leave us a comment with your thoughts, questions, or ideas for future podcast episodes.

Understanding Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and What They Do

The field of information technology has advanced at a breakneck pace in the last 20 years. Hence, it has become imperative for any business to know and adopt technologies that can make them productive and more competent at the same time. However, not all firms have the resources to expand their team of IT professionals for several reasons, particularly within small and medium-sized businesses.

ChaosSearch Named "Most Likely to be the Next Boston Unicorn" in Startup Boston's Community Awards

This week, ChaosSearch announced some exciting news -- we're honored to have been named Most Likely to be the Next Boston Unicorn in Startup Boston’s first-ever Community Awards! The award celebrates companies that have made extraordinary achievements in the startup ecosystem in Boston, and represents grassroots recognition from tech entrepreneurs, employees, investors, journalists, and educators in the region.

By 2030, e-Waste Will Reach 2.5 Million Metric Tons Unless We 'Sober Up'

Let’s admit something without shame: we love to use new technology. Maybe the latest smart phone, or a new lightweight laptop or tablet that makes it easier to work from anywhere, it’s all fair game. And when we are at our desk, we enjoy creating expansive workspaces with multiple monitors, a full-size keyboard, and other extras. When we look across our household, we might have duplicate, perhaps triplicate resources growing our technology real estate exponentially.

Model-driven observability: Embedded Alert Rules

This post is about alert rules. Operators should ensure a baseline of observability for the software they operate. In this blog post, we cover Prometheus alert rules, how they work and their gotchas, and discuss how Prometheus alert rules can be embedded in Juju charms and how Juju topology enables the scoping of embedded alert rules to avoid inaccuracies.

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Kent RO sees 50% faster MTTR with Applications Manager

Kent RO is an Indian multinational healthcare product company and a leader in the reverse osmosis (RO) water purifier category. Founded in 1999, Kent RO pioneered and brought the revolutionary RO technology to India. With a vision to enhance the quality of everyday living, Kent RO has evolved as a market leader that provides technologically advanced healthcare products ranging from water purifiers, air purifiers, to water softeners.

Find the right person at the right time to fix the right issue with SCIM for Okta, Code Owners with GitHub, and more

If you know someone who actually likes managing work across projects, we’d love to meet this mythical being. Because we can’t imagine who enjoys hand-sifting through digital piles of notifications, prioritizing issues, then tracking down the right developer to assign the issue to. And once you’re done with that detective work, your engineer-of-the-hour may not even have access to the right tools to resolve the issue. Who’s got time for all this org chart spelunking?