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Best Website Monitoring Tools to Use in 2021 (Free and Paid)

A website is an essential part of your organization’s online presence, and it’s crucial to attract, engage, and convert visitors into customers. Accordingly, the imperative is to maintain a reliable website capable of loading quickly and offering a seamless experience to its visitors. Otherwise, a suboptimally maintained website can badly affect user engagement, deteriorate reputation, and lead to revenue loss.

Best Website Monitoring Tools to Use in 2021 (Free and Paid)

A website is an essential part of your organization’s online presence, and it’s crucial to attract, engage, and convert visitors into customers. Accordingly, the imperative is to maintain a reliable website capable of loading quickly and offering a seamless experience to its visitors. Otherwise, a suboptimally maintained website can badly affect user engagement, deteriorate reputation, and lead to revenue loss.

Gremlin: Is Your Microservice Actually a Distributed Monolith?

Migrating from a monolith to a microservice can be tricky. It's not enough to just run your application in a container: it needs to be redesigned as lightweight, independent, and scalable services. Otherwise, you might end up with a dreaded distributed monolith. In this webinar, we explain what a distributed monolith is, why they're undesirable, and how you can avoid this anti-pattern by using Chaos Engineering.

Elastic: We're all searching for something: Introduction to Elastic

In this webinar, we'll see how a company can use Elastic across their teams, such as Marketing, Executive, Sec Ops, and Operations to work more efficiently, and create an amazing experience for their customers. We'll cover all three Elastic Solutions: Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security, as well as core features in the Elastic Stack such as machine learning and searchable snapshots. We'll also show you how Elastic is available wherever you need it: Elastic Cloud (our SaaS offering) or self-managed wherever you want to deploy it.

Serverless360: Azure Service Bus: The Messaging Backbone for Cloud Applications

Microsoft Azure MVP In today's world, cloud and hybrid systems are getting more complex and sophisticated. Still, one thing has not changed: the need for messaging, the backbone of any scalable and reliable systems. The Azure portfolio offers various messaging services, and one of them is standing out when it comes to enterprise systems - Azure Service Bus.

3 reasons to use network diagram software

Due to the evolution of IT systems, the recent shift to a hybrid workforce, changing client requirements, and other reasons, network monitoring has become much more complex. IT admins need to visualize the entire network infrastructure effortlessly. Gaining visibility into the network makes it easy to spot patterns, proactively troubleshoot faults, ensure the availability of critical devices 24/7, and more.

Top 7 API Monitoring Tools for Your Business in 2021

As APIs are so important for connecting modern cloud applications, keeping an eye on their availability and speed is essential if you want to give a great user experience. A good API monitoring tool can assist you in developing dependable APIs by detecting and fixing issues before they reach your users. If you're looking for a solution like this, look no further. In this article, we looked at some of the top API monitoring tools available today.

FIPS certification and CIS compliance with Ubuntu

There are few Linux distributions that undergo the FIPS certification process, and even fewer with certified images available for production use in multi-cloud environments. Canonical has built integrated services to easily enable FIPS certified or compliant modules for Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04 LTS releases, as well as tooling to assist in hardening and auditing Ubuntu instances to meet CIS compliance benchmarks. These certified components enable operating environments under compliance regimes like FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI and ISO.

How to Establish a Culture of Secure DevOps

We’re constantly told to “Shift Left” and that Secure DevOps is the only way to have confidence in your cloud native applications. But speaking to end-users and industry colleagues, it’s clear that there are some major challenges in adopting Secure DevOps. If we read our history books, we know that DevOps wasn’t successfully adopted by buying tools, and a true cultural movement towards DevOps wasn’t established by having a small dedicated team of DevOps specialists.