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Exoprise
We help you find and fix issues with your cloud apps fast. Exoprise is the leading solution provider for monitoring SaaS services like Microsoft 365, Box, Dropbox, Salesforce.com and more.
Sematext
Monitoring, log management, transaction tracing, and real user monitoring. Finally together!
NiCE IT Mgmt
From databases to servers, communication systems, operating systems and custom applications, NiCE provides the right application monitoring solutions and services.
Monitive
Monitive is an uptime monitoring service, where users sign up and input their website address, which we check every minute, from a random location around the world, and instantly notify them when their site is down.
EventSentry
EventSentry is an award-winning Hybrid SIEM which features real-time log, system health and network monitoring to proactively monitor networks and preemptively respond to threats.
ManageEngine
ManageEngine crafts comprehensive IT management software with a focus on making your job easier. Our 90+ products and free tools cover everything your IT needs, at prices you can afford.
Raygun
Raygun is a Software Intelligence Platform that gives companies visibility into software problems. Errors, crashes and slow loading pages and scripts affecting end users are automatically detected, enabling teams to build excellent user experiences.
Get Kafka-Nated S2E6: Omnia Ibrahim - KIP-1279, Cross-Cluster Replication
Nobody has much nice to say about MirrorMaker. Cross-cluster replication has been one of Kafka's sore spots for years, and KIP-1279 is the community's attempt to finally fix it. This episode I'm joined by Omnia Ibrahim, Software Engineer at Apple and Apache Kafka Committer, to talk about what's actually broken in multi-cluster Kafka today, what KIP-1279 changes, and what teams running active-active or active-passive setups should do in the meantime.
Why Some Restaurants Dominate Social Media
Not every restaurant with excellent food becomes a social media success. Likewise, not every venue with thousands of followers necessarily serves the best meal in town. The restaurants that dominate social media understand something important: people share experiences, not just food. Whether it's a striking dining room, a memorable cocktail, a riverside view, or an evening that feels worth talking about, certain venues naturally generate photographs, videos, recommendations, and conversations. They create moments that guests want to capture and share with friends.
Why Houston Is Becoming a Hub for App and Web Projects
Houston gets a lot of credit for oil, space exploration, and incredible food, but tech rarely makes that list. That is starting to change in a big way. Founders all over the city are quietly building apps and websites that compete with anything coming out of the bigger coastal hubs. If you have been searching for mobile app developers in Houston or wondering whether to invest in custom web development services, you are in exactly the right place.
Beware of PII in Testing Data: The Security Iceberg and Where PII Actually Hides
If you run a platform tools or security team, you have likely heard this request from developers: “I just need a copy of the production database for staging so I can run realistic load and integration tests.” It is a completely reasonable request. Production traffic and data contain the actual request shapes, real-world value distributions, long-tail anomalies, and timing patterns that make tests useful.
Monitoring vs. observability: The future of IT operations in 2026
For years, monitoring was the gold standard of infrastructure management. Dashboards. Thresholds. Alerts. If everything on the dashboard was green, you didn't need to worry. If something turned red, you responded. It was a model built on predictability, and for a long time, it worked. But modern infrastructure is no longer predictable.
StatusGator is now available in SharePoint
We’re excited to announce the new StatusGator SharePoint integration. Many organizations use SharePoint as the central hub for company resources, communications, and internal tools. Now, you can add real-time service status directly to your SharePoint pages, helping employees stay informed about outages, maintenance, and service disruptions without leaving the platforms they already use every day.
QR Codes For Asset Management: Label And Track Assets With InvGate Asset Management
Still relying on serial numbers or manual asset lookups? In this video, Matt Beran shows how to generate QR codes for asset management with InvGate Asset Management and how IT teams can use them to simplify asset tracking, inventory management, and mobile access to asset information. Instead of searching through spreadsheets or manually locating asset records, QR codes provide instant access to the information stored in your inventory. Generate labels in bulk, print them, attach them to your devices, and scan them from your phone whenever you need asset details.
George Luong Shares How 200 Slack Engineers Use Honeycomb
At Slack, between 100 to 200 users per day use Honeycomb for client observability, tracing, instrumentation, analysis of performance, frontend issues, investigating incidents, or just looking into production issues.
Is Your AI Coding Agent Actually Boosting Productivity
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Why your PaaS choice is a governance commitment
Choosing a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is not just an infrastructure decision. It is also a decision about how personal data will be handled over the life of the project. It's a governance commitment made early, with consequences that run late. A PaaS does not remove an organization’s accountability for privacy, security, or regulatory compliance. However, a well-architected PaaS can materially strengthen the control environment in which those obligations are managed.