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Ruby Garbage Collection: More Exciting than it Sounds

Running software uses computer memory for data structures and executable operations. How this memory is accessed and managed depends on the operating system and the programming language. Many modern programming languages manage memory for you, and Ruby is no different. Ruby manages memory usage using a garbage collector (also called gc). In this post, we’ll examine what you, a Ruby developer, need to know about Ruby’s gc. Use the links below to skip ahead in the tutorial.

Cloud to Cloud, Easily Integrate Cloud Monitoring Tools in a Time of Remote Work

OpsRamp can ingest, process, and analyze events from third-party tools and automatically create new managed resources for alerts ingested from other monitoring tools. Automatic resource creation ensures rapid root cause analysis for third-party resources with relevant context. Application owners can also tag external resources to service maps so that they can drill-down and troubleshoot the supporting hybrid infrastructure for the associated business-critical service.

Using NGINX as a Queue for JSON Payloads

Request Metrics is a performance analytics tool. As such, we need to build a data ingestion pipeline that will consume performance data and process it. One common approach to ingest is to shove incoming data into a queue. We like simple things, and figuring out fancy distributed queues is anything but. So we're going to eschew best practices and use NGINX as our queue!

Top 3 Network Performance Monitoring Use Cases for SPs & MSPs | Obkio

You may have heard IT professionals go on about the importance of monitoring your network performance to help you pinpoint the cause of problems like dropped calls, slow downs, or connection losses within your infrastructure. The easiest way to get the point across is to understand the specific situations in which the solution will be used. Watch this 2-minute video to learn about the top 3 use cases for network performance monitoring, specifically for service providers (MSPs).

Making employees feel appreciated with the UMatter bot

In the middle of January 2020, I got a notification about the upcoming Mattermost hackathon that was being hosted on the HackerEarth platform. I checked out the hackathon page but I forgot about it the next day when I went to work. One morning, I was surfing the internet sipping my coffee and landed on a website that discussed why employee churn rate is high in organizations.

Calico Enterprise 3.0 - Global Network Security Center for Kubernetes

As our enterprise customers build out large, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, they are encountering an entirely new set of security challenges, requiring solutions that operate at scale and can be deployed both on-premises and across multiple clouds.

Why GOPROXY Matters and Which to Pick

Starting with Go 1.13, Go modules are the standard package manager in Golang, automatically enabled on installation along with a default GOPROXY. But with other GOPROXY options like JFrog GoCenter, as well as your own Go module packages you need to keep secure from public view, what kind of configuration should you choose? How can you keep your public and private Golang resources from becoming a tangled knot?