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Align platform and product engineering teams over incidents

I firmly believe in never letting a good incident go to waste. Incidents expose weak spots and create opportunities for medium and long-term investments. In analyzing incidents and understanding their root causes, organizations can identify areas that require additional resources or enhancements. When incidents are used to align your platform and product engineering, it opens up opportunities to enhance the performance and security of your product.

Google Apps Alternatives: How to DeGoogle Your Life

In an age prone to cybercrime, online privacy and data security are becoming increasingly important. As a result, many people have considered minimizing their reliance on Google’s services. The term “DeGoogle” has become a big talking point in online communities. It involves several steps to transition Google apps to alternative services that align with your privacy preferences. However, the change won’t be simple.

Mapping IT Services for Improved Alignment Between Business and IT

Running a business in today's digitalized world comes with many challenges, such as industry regulations, escalating costs as businesses grow and continuity planning. To effectively manage IT services and align them with business goals, organizations are turning to service management solutions to optimize their resources, budgets and cross-functional collaboration.

Creating Databases, Schemas, and Tables on pgAdmin

In this tutorial, we'll walk you through the process of creating databases, schemas, and tables on pgAdmin, a powerful GUI tool for managing PostgreSQL databases. Whether you're new to pgAdmin or seeking to enhance your database administration skills, this video provides a comprehensive guide to efficiently create and organize your database structures. We'll also highlight the seamless integration of pgAdmin with Aiven's PostgreSQL service, enabling you to leverage Aiven's reliable and scalable infrastructure while utilizing pgAdmin's intuitive interface.

Top 5 Trends Forecasted for Telco Operations' and Network Automation's Growing Impact

There’s no end in sight for the more-than-fair share of technological advancements the telecommunications sector has seen. And with change, comes challenges. The infrastructures that establish digital communication and connectivity that nearly everyone depends on are in regular, ongoing need of upgrades, which calls for significant investments in building and maintaining them. Much of the relevant decision-making comes from Communication Service Providers (CSPs).

Dashboard Fridays: Steam Player Data

This is a fun dashboard to capture some Steam player statistics using the WebAPI plugin. Created by SquaredUp's Director of Engineering, Josip Dlaka, this handy dashboard displays how long his kids have been online, how many friends they have, and what they have achieved without even leaving their room! SquaredUp allows you to combine and visualize data from multiple data sources in a meaningful way, so this aesthetically pleasing dashboard gives a good overview of key Steam player metrics in Josip's household.

A practical guide to data collection with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus

Grafana Labs has always been actively involved in the OpenTelemetry community, even working with the predecessor projects OpenTracing and OpenCensus. We have been supporting OTLP as the primary input protocol for our distributed tracing project, Grafana Tempo, since its inception, and our Grafana Agent embeds parts of the OpenTelemetry Collector.

Team Collaboration in Git: How GitKraken Workspaces Makes the Difference

Welcome back to our Everyday Use Case series, where we continue to explore the real-world workflows for GitKraken Workspaces and show you practical ways to make routine tasks faster and simpler. In our previous article, we unpacked how GitKraken Workspaces simplifies the onboarding process for new team members in complex multi-repo projects. Now, we shift our focus to another crucial element of project development: Team Collaboration.

Environment backup and recovery

Backup copies are an almost mandatory prevention method in any environment in order to have the most critical elements secured against possible damages or loss of information. For this reason, today we bring you this video where we are going to see how to make security copies of the main elements of Pandora FMS and how to recover them in a very simple way.