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Are You Ready For Serverless Development?

The way we build software products changes all the time. Serverless architecture opens up new opportunities to create awesome products faster. Not only that, serverless applications are more scalable, secure and maintainable – all with much less code. Serverless is the future of development and you should get ready for it. But what does it mean to be a serverless developer? What do you need to understand before jumping into the serverless pool?

Cut yourself some Slack: Team collaboration through OpManager-Slack integration

Besides email, IT teams need a flexible communication platform that facilitates fast and easy collaboration. Slack is one such tool, as it helps internal teams collaborate and make decisions quickly. OpManager now integrates with Slack, enabling you to discuss issues related to your network on a more agile platform, and collaborate with team members to troubleshoot network issues.

Looking Back At The First SCOM Management Pack Development Training In Amsterdam

On May 15 & 16 we hosted the first SCOM Management Pack Development training in Amsterdam. It was an interesting and exciting course as for a first timer in our region, all slots were sold out in the first three weeks after the announcement.

OpsRamp Summer Release 2019

The Summer 2019 Release introduces OpsQ Observed Mode to build confidence in machine learning models for IT event and performance analysis. It also includes automated alert suppression to reduce human time spent on first-response to alerts, continuous learning-based alert escalation using live event data, and new infrastructure monitoring capabilities for cloud native environments.

Sentry Integration Platform: Observability with Rookout

There are a lot of things we, at Sentry, love about Rookout, a Sentry Integration Platform early adopter. First of all, Sentry loves purple, and Rookout loves purple. And, Rookout helps fix software in production, and Sentry helps fix software in production. Together, the two tools cut time from error to resolution. Honestly, Rookout and Sentry integrating is just kismet.

Debugging with Rails Logger

If you’re a Rails developer, then you’ve probably used Rails Logger on at least one occasion or another. Or maybe you have used it without even realizing, like when you run ‘rails server’ and it prints information to the terminal window, for example. Rails Logger provides us with a powerful way of debugging our applications and gives us an insight into understanding errors when they occur.

Getting Started with a SaaS Business as an Indie Maker

In this post, I would like to expose the mindset that helped me have my very first business profitable since day one. This is not a proven methodology, but I intend to replicate the way I started this business to maybe validate it. Before getting started, here are some metrics to put yourself in the context.

Monitoring and Troubleshooting Synchronization Issues in Java Applications

Java applications deployed in production must be multi-threaded for scalability. Threads can be used for performing different tasks or they could be executing the same task to service different user requests. Often, it is necessary to synchronize between different threads.