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Catchpoint recently celebrated a significant milestone, our first patent. The patent protects the work of its inventors, Staff Engineers Alessandro Improta and Luca Sani, VP of Engineering Sergey Katsev, and Chief Product and Technology Officer Dritan Suljoti.

We are now more than halfway through 2023—how is your MSP doing? Thinking back to January and the personal and business goals you set for yourself… Are you still on track, are you enjoying a successful year so far, or are you struggling? There are many studies out there that speak about the various success rates of individuals and businesses in keeping their new year’s resolutions and their business financial and operational goals.

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Software development errors can wreak havoc on organizations. When software bugs make it into production due to human error, organizations can lose a lot of money. At the same time, software failures can ruin a company’s reputation, creating dissatisfied customers and crushing productivity. Depending on how bad the errors are, software companies can even face legal and compliance penalties.

There’s an unfortunate mistake that’s too often made when the relationship between an employee and their employer ends, and when the offboarding begins: processing the termination steps too quickly and disregarding the importance of the employee’s last few days, which can mean that behind-the-scenes procedures, like those in IT, aren’t carried out so well.

Arvindhan PA, Founder of OutReal, wants to bring VR gaming to the masses with a cloud-based platform that doesn’t depend on PCs or consoles, a world first. We’re providing the infrastructure to turn his vision into a reality. Here’s the story so far. There was a time when the idea of a VR headset in every household seemed like science fiction. Today, it feels more like an impending reality.

In today's digital landscape, where websites and applications are expected to handle increasing traffic loads, ensuring optimal performance and reliability is of paramount importance. Load balancing, a technique used to distribute incoming network traffic across multiple servers, plays a critical role in achieving these goals. Load balancers which are the key components in this process, help optimize resource utilization, enhance the scalability functions, and improve overall system efficiency.

The public cloud market is expected to grow significantly in 2023, and it’s no surprise. Gartner forecasts that end-user spending on public cloud services will rise by 21.7% to a total of $597.3 billion in 2023, up from $491 billion in 2022!

When relying on data from external services, it's important for the retrieval to be accurate and timely. While we may not control how efficiently an external API responds to our requests, we can control how and when we request data from that API. However, over time as your application and the API that serves it change, once efficient requests may turn into bottlenecks.