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You may have spotted some news last week from PCCW Global that both its international network and the Console Connect digital platform have recently received MEF 3.0 certification. Besides demonstrating to our customers and partners that Console Connect is aligned with the latest and highest network standards, this news also highlights the work that we are doing behind-the-scenes to help advance network automation and on-demand services globally. Read more…

These days, more and more web applications are developed and refined to keep the customer engagement at the highest level possible. It is crucial to provide a smooth experience to the customer hence monitoring is of paramount importance. One key factor in that is monitoring the web server we use. In this article, we will explore Logz.io features by monitoring an Apache Web Server.

When we first started our managed Kubernetes beta, we knew utilising K3s as the Kubernetes distribution of choice was the right move. Not only is it light-weight and quick to deploy, K3s has features ideally suited for the scenarios we envisioned our users would encounter. It’s important for us to make sure any service we offer is 100% compatible with industry standards, and K3s allows us to do just that but with simplicity and speed for our users.

Hey there! This is Éamon Ryan from the Solutions Engineering team. Very recently the Splunk data source plugin, which is available with a Grafana Enterprise license, had a new release: v2.1.0. While it added a few good bug fixes for edge cases, the biggest change, I think, was the addition of support for data links! Data links actually show up in a few places inside Grafana.

Application programming interfaces (APIs) allow applications to communicate, interoperate, and share information with one another. APIs have been mainstays at companies like Google, Salesforce, and other smaller but innovative organizations for decades. Now, they’re also common in the public sector, with a wide range of agencies actively using hundreds of APIs.

Running your IT infrastructure from the cloud can be a smart choice for modern businesses. Cloud computing allows you to build a scalable, flexible architecture at an affordable price. But few businesses are 100% on the cloud. Businesses may have legacy systems or specific resources that work better on-premises, or they may have made a significant investment in on-premises hardware.

Running your IT infrastructure from the cloud can be a smart choice for modern businesses. Cloud computing allows you to build a scalable, flexible architecture at an affordable price. But few businesses are 100% on the cloud. Businesses may have legacy systems or specific resources that work better on-premises, or they may have made a significant investment in on-premises hardware.

The npm Registry is vulnerable for supply chain impersonation attacks. Make sure you create npm scoped packages and force exclude patterns.

WaKED-CO (Watch of Knowledge on Emergent Diseases COVID-19) is an initiative launched in record time — deployed just a month after developing a prototype — under the leadership of the health service within the Ministry of Armed Forces in France. The project had one core mission: to make it easier to research the literature around the COVID-19 crisis.

Serverless provides benefits far beyond the ease of management…it strongly encourages “useful” engineering practices. Here’s how. It’s hard to determine what can be considered a “good” or “bad” engineering practice. We often hear about best practices, but everything really boils down to a specific use case. Therefore, I deliberately chose the word “useful” rather than “good” in the title.