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6 Interesting Things You Can Do As A Team Building Exercise

Team building exercises play a crucial role in fostering camaraderie, enhancing communication, and boosting productivity within a group. Engaging in fun and unique activities can not only break the ice but also promote teamwork and problem-solving skills among team members. While the conventional trust falls and icebreakers still have their place, several interesting and effective team-building exercises can take your team's dynamics to the next level.

CMDB Definition, Benefits, And Best Practices

Managing and maintaining a complex IT infrastructure throughout an organization is no small feat. If this is your case, implementing a CMDB (Configuration Management Database) to support your IT Asset Management strategy will make a big difference. In a nutshell, a CMDB is at the core of the ITIL Configuration Management process since it enables you to capture a larger number of Configuration Items (CIs), their interdependencies, and any possible changes they might face.

Getting started with AWS CloudWatch

Out of more than 100 services that Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides, Amazon CloudWatch was one of the earliest services provided by AWS. CloudWatch was announced on May 17th, 2009, and it was the 7th service released after S3, SQS, SimpleDB, EBS, EC2, and EMR. AWS CloudWatch is a suite of tools that encompasses a wide range of cloud resources, including collecting logs and metrics; monitoring; visualization and alerting; and automated action in response to operational health changes.

Dashboard Stories: High-level Jira ticket summary

Luke Gackle, ICT Service Desk Officer at the South Australian Tourism Commission presents this Jira Ticket Summary dashboard built in SquaredUp using the Jira plugin. Built to provide his support team an at-a-glance view of ticket statuses nearing an SLA breach, it now serves as as key overview / reference point for their daily stand-ups. With no good way of displaying these numbers in a native Jira dashboard, Luke used the Jira plugin to effortlessly fill these gaps in a SquaredUp dashboard.

Dashboard Stories: A unified view of NSW snowboarding conditions

Adam Hewins, Senior Operational Support Engineer, presents this cool snowboarding conditions dashboard built in SquaredUp using the WebAPI plugin. As a long-time snowboarder, this dashboard was built so Adam can see at-a-glance the weather and trail conditions in Perisher, NSW. Learn how Adam used the WebAPI plugin to effortlessly surface data for snowfall, snowdepth, temperature and even Perisher live camera imagery in one centralized dashboard.

Troubleshooting ECS Container Crashes

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a versatile platform that enables developers to build scalable and resilient applications using containers. However, containerized services, like Node.js applications, may face challenges like memory leaks, which can result in container crashes. In this blog post, we’ll delve into the process of identifying and addressing memory leaks in Node.js containers running on ECS. First, let’s look closer at what a memory leak is.

Dark Data: Discovery, Uses, and Benefits of Hidden Data

Dark data is all of the unused, unknown and untapped data across an organization. This data is generated as a result of users’ daily interactions online with countless devices and systems — everything from machine data to server log files to unstructured data derived from social media. Organizations may consider this data too old to provide value, incomplete or redundant, or limited by a format that can’t be accessed with available tools.