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Our perception of the cloud is underpinned by three terms: scalable, flexible, and efficient. These adjectives, however, are only the capabilities of the cloud—not the benefits. Turning the cloud’s capabilities into benefits involves understanding the nature of the cloud and optimizing how you use it based on that. From choosing your cloud vendor to rewriting your code for the cloud, our cloud cost efficiency checklist spans a wide spectrum of planning and actions.

Even if you’ve only been a digital business owner for a short time, you likely already understand the importance of metrics like click-through rates, engagement, and follower demographics. What you may not be aware of, however, is how much of an impact proactive website monitoring can have on catalyzing your business growth. Just as your marketing metrics should inform your next campaign, you should rely on website monitoring metrics to prioritize strategic improvements.

Many organizations use incident response setups that enable them to page on-call personnel via calling or sending a message to a phone number. In this guide, you will learn how to configure such a system by using Grafana OnCall. For practical purposes, we’ll pair it with Twilio, though the same basic workflow should be applicable to other platforms. We will start with a basic setup that uses a phone number in Twilio to both call and send SMS messages to a webhook integration in Grafana OnCall.

Web analytics dashboards are essential tools for businesses looking to enhance their online presence, optimize user experience, and achieve their wider business objectives. By supplying actionable insights and facilitating data-driven decision-making, these dashboards help businesses stay competitive in today's digital landscape.

Bad meetings in the age of hybrid aren’t just annoying, they’re a huge cost sink. They drop productivity, reduce employee happiness, and sometimes, in the worst cases, lead to missed business opportunities. All that can be avoided with the right approach to making hybrid work the right way. Here are the best practices for Teams hybrid meetings that you need to know.

The Teams desktop client has been rebuilt to prioritize performance and offer a faster, more streamlined, and adaptable experience for users. It’s a fairly sizeable update and there’s a bunch of new features that are worth taking a look at but here are our top 5 and why they’re important for you.

Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the top of every technology leader’s mind. What technologies should you incorporate? Who should you partner with to get the most out of AI investments? How best to implement AI within the workplace? To answer these questions, we first need a better understanding of how we got here.

In case you missed it, our friends at Laravel just announced a new partnership with… well… Sentry. The TL;DR is that you can add error monitoring and tracing capabilities to new or existing Forge/Vapor sites with just a few clicks. This new integration is designed to help PHP developers collect real telemetry on their projects as easily as possible.