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Strangler pattern implementation for safe microservices transition

Moving from monolithic applications to microservices represents a significant architectural transformation. The Strangler Pattern offers a controlled, incremental approach to this migration, enabling organizations to gradually replace functionality while keeping systems operational throughout the transition. This methodology substantially reduces risk compared to complete rewrites, making it an invaluable strategy for organizations with business-critical applications.

Cortex Recognized by Gartner as Representative Vendor in the 2025 Market Guide for Internal Developer Portals

Gartner Market Guide for Internal Developer Portals offers “Platform engineering teams are tasked with improving developer experience, ensuring consistent governance, and enabling discovery and access to software development and delivery capabilities. Platform engineering leaders can use internal developer portals to address these challenges.” Organizations with a current Gartner license can check out the report here.

Achieve Full Visibility: How External Attack Surface Management (EASM) Reduces Risk

Achieve Full Visibility: How External Attack Surface Management (EASM) Reduces Risk Your organization’s attack surface is bigger than you think — and what you can’t see can hurt you. Many internet-facing assets go undetected by traditional tools, especially those without agents, leaving gaps in your security posture.

Windows 10 & Office Updates Product Marketing #shorts #patchmanagement #patchtuesday

Windows 10 & Office Updates Product Marketing Windows 10 updates reveal 87 vulnerabilities, including known exploited ones. Windows 11 also faces vulnerabilities, especially with Citrix. A specific issue with broker xe and Windows Defender is highlighted, with a fix anticipated. Server 2022 has three vulnerabilities, including Citrix. Office updates for 2016 and Android tackle critical vulnerabilities, stressing the need for regular updates. SharePoint server updates address five important vulnerabilities.

Is There Really ROI for Moving Your Voice Network to Cloud Native?

As an operations leader, you are constantly asked to do more with fewer resources. Join us on April 29th to learn how your peers are successfully leveraging cloud native and end-to-end automation to minimize manual labor and lower OpEx. Many of our customers have expressed their challenges in swiftly launching new services, maintaining compliance, or managing subscriber churn. How does one maintain business continuity in the face of expertise shortages and security concerns?

Introducing Server Nicknames

This past week we released the simple yet widely requested feature Server Nicknames, the ability to easily track and manage various servers with unique custom names. At first glance this may seem like a non update but not when you consider that most Cycle users are connecting many servers from multiple providers and locations in the cloud and on premises. With long default server names, this is a huge quality of life improvement.

Pandora FMS Stands Out in G2 Spring 2025 Reports: 35 Key Recognitions in Monitoring and Cybersecurity

Madrid, April 2025 – The monitoring and observability platform Pandora FMS has been recognized in 35 leading reports in the G2 Spring 2025 edition, solidifying its position as one of the most versatile solutions for managing complex IT infrastructures, hybrid environments, and critical operations.

Building a B2B Commerce Ecosystem for the Modern Buyer

The good news: this is no longer the case with our new “How to Buy” experience!. The case is clear: B2B buyers want the same seamless online shopping, research and purchasing experience they enjoy as consumers. They expect that process to be easy, smart and empowering. Business buyers are also banking on features and functionality that are tailored for them, especially in the small-and-medium business (SMB) segment.

How to keep Ingress NGINX Controller metric volumes manageable and still meaningful

The Ingress NGINX Controller is a widely used Kubernetes component for managing HTTP and HTTPS traffic routing. While it provides powerful observability through Prometheus metrics, it’s also notorious for generating an excessively high number of time series. The root cause lies in how the controller labels its metrics—tracking requests across multiple dimensions such as ingress name, host, path, status code, and upstream response times.