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What is MTTR? Calculation and Reduction Strategies

In the fast-paced world of software development, every minute counts. When disruptions occur, whether there are minor or major system failures, organizations need to bounce back to maintain seamless operations. That's where MTTR (Mean Time to Repair) steps onto the stage as a game-changing metric. Are you ready to unlock the secrets behind reducing downtime, boosting performance, and ensuring software reliability?

10 Most Common PHP Security Threats and the Best Ways to Fix Them

PHP is a powerful language used by at least 80% of all the applications you use today as their backend scripting language. This can be attributed to its relatively simpler syntax, which is on the same line as other C-style languages. It supports different operating systems (Windows, Linux, macOS), web servers, databases and integrates seamlessly with popular databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle, making it a suitable choice for database-driven applications.

Toronto Open Source Data Infrastructure Meetup - May 2023

A recording from the first Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup in Toronto, hosted by Aiven on May 17, 2023. The video features a talk by Matty Stratton, Director of Developer Relations at Aiven, and Kat Cosgrove, Lead Developer Advocate at Dell: "Databases: A History of Places to Put Your Stuff".

Optimize Industrial IoT Data with InfluxDB and AWS

The modern factory’s relationship with data is experiencing a major change. Data now shapes the future rather than only telling the story of the past. The language inside the factory sounds like higher Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) as the result of a shift from preventive to predictive maintenance. It could also look like expanding business goals to a new market based on impactful data-driven decisions. A change in purpose requires an update in technology.

IT Incident Management - What is it and how to do it?

Are you tired of dealing with IT incidents that seem to pop up at the worst possible times? Do you find yourself struggling to keep track of all the moving pieces involved in resolving incidents? If so, it’s time to revitalize your incident management strategy. In this article, we’ll explore the key pillars of incident process management, best practices, and how technology can help streamline your process.

Which Software Stack is best for IT service management?

IT-Incident Management - a hot topic and more important than ever in the digital age. Companies are increasingly relying on technology to maintain their operations, as any downtime can have catastrophic consequences. On average, one minute of downtime costs $9,000. ‍ Therefore, an efficient and especially organization-specific incident management system is essential. However, there are many components and options in incident management, so what software stack should you use? ‍

On-call management on the go: Introducing the Grafana OnCall mobile app

We’ve all been there: Sleeping peacefully in bed over the weekend, finally getting rest after a long week at your computer making AI-generated memes writing code. Then at 3 a.m., your phone makes an ungodly sound, and you wake up startled, frazzled, and confused. When you finally type in your passcode to unlock your phone (because facial recognition doesn’t register your bleary-eyed, squinty face), you see an alert, and all dreams of sleep are over.

ITIL Service Transition, Explained

ITIL Service transition is the third stage of the service lifecycle. It involves transitioning the services that were created and developed in strategy and design – first and second stage of the cycle – into the production environment effectively, efficiently, and safely. This stage deals with everything from preparing for change to documenting the components of the asset that make up the service to creating knowledge articles for support teams and end users.

SD-WAN: Monitoring Blind Spots, and What to Do About Them

The adoption of software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technologies continues to pick up pace. By employing SD-WAN technologies, organizations have the potential to realize a range of advantages. Teams can achieve better performance while using lower cost, using commercially-available technologies. For example, teams can use public internet services rather than more expensive private WAN technologies, such as MPLS.

How Honeycomb Monitors Kubernetes

While Kubernetes comes with a number of benefits, it’s yet another piece of infrastructure that needs to be managed. Here, I’ll talk about three interesting ways that Honeycomb uses Honeycomb to get insight into our Kubernetes clusters. It’s worth calling out that we at Honeycomb use Amazon EKS to manage the control plane of our cluster, so this document will focus on monitoring Kubernetes as a consumer of a managed service.