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Around 1996, when I attended my first programming classes, C++ was the language of choice if you wanted to have a job in this industry. The Internet was young and not as widely available as it is now. Ruby and Python were still in their infancy. Now, in 2018, both have evolved and matured well enough to be in the top 10 most in-demand programming languages. In this article, I’m going to highlight features and contrasts between Python and Ruby.

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) vs Native Apps is a hot topic of debate in the market. Everyone is sharing their thoughts on what is similar in both the app types, what makes them apart, and who will rule the market in future. I’m sure you will also have your own points noted in a notebook to speak on this topic.

Already have a monitoring service with your current host? Does your plan include Amazon CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or another proprietary monitoring tool? You might want to check the fine print. These services often provide internal web monitoring only. While they may check HTTP availability from locations outside their network, HTTP checks alone are not sufficient.

It was indeed an eventful year for us. With launching a slew of new capabilities, attending more than 23 global events, and conducting 12 seminars in multiple cities, the year 2018 was a blast. This year has also made us one of the firsts in the monitoring industry to introduce AI-driven Azure monitoring, along with many other significant enhancements.

2018 is coming to an end and you might already be looking back at how this year has been for you. In the IT world, 2018 started with the processor bugs Meltdown and Spectre. From there, the year was filled with data breaches and ransomware. But things weren’t all bad this year; the GDPR went into effect, which is a huge step forward in data privacy, and plenty of new technologies were released.

FinancesOnline, an independent B2B solutions review platform, recently conducted an independent assessment of eG Enterprise APM and published their review. This review provides an overview of the features, benefits, and problems solved by eG Enterprise APM. Also, the review analyzes eG Enterprise APM in relation to other APM solutions in the market.

You may have heard on many occasions that this technology will change the world forever. And if you’re old enough, you’ll have seen that on some occasions, indeed, it has been like that, but on others, things have gone on as usual and that technology that was going to wipe everything out has ended up in the drawer of forgetfulness.

With 2018 almost coming to a close, let's take a look at all the product improvements we've shipped this year.

Now that Sensu Go is out, I thought this would be a great time to circle back and follow up on the Sensu Summit 2018 breakout session concerning Sensu 1.x to Sensu Go workload migration challenges. That session had some great feedback from Sensu users; we’ve been heads down over the past few months putting the pieces together to make it easier to move your existing workloads when you upgrade to Sensu Go and keep your existing Sensu Plugins working while you transition.