In a rapidly expanding, highly distributed cloud infrastructure environment, it can be difficult to make decisions about the design and management of cloud architectures. That’s because it’s hard for a single observer to see the full scope when their organization owns thousands of cloud resources distributed across hundreds of accounts. You need broad, complete visibility in order to find underutilized resources and other forms of bloat.

For CFEngine we manage several public and private repositories of code in GitHub for our Open Source and Enterprise products. In order to ensure quality we run many checks on the code both with nightly builds as well as on each pull request. We use a Jenkins server for nightlies which also includes more extensive deployment tests on all of the platforms we support. Previously we had used Travis for many of these checks but that system started to show its age and limitations.

In today's fast-paced digital world, the reliability and performance of IT infrastructure are critical to business success. Monitoring technology plays a pivotal role in ensuring that systems and networks operate seamlessly, and one such technology is Zenoss. This blog provides an in-depth look at Zenoss technology and sheds light on the importance of event-driven architecture in modern monitoring.

Maciej Nawrocki, Senior Backend Developer at Bright Inventions, is a backend developer focused on DevOps and monitoring. Adam Waniak, Senior Backend Developer at Bright Inventions, is a backend developer with a keen interest in DevOps. Bright Inventions is a software consulting studio based in Gdansk, Poland, with expertise in mobile, web, blockchain, and IOT systems. At Bright Inventions, we always prioritize app optimization when we develop software solutions for our clients.

In May 2023, Thomas Kronawitter, Head of Data-Driven Applications & Services at Grenke AG, joined Redgate CPO David Gummer at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit to provide insights and advice based on his own digital transformation journey in financial services. This post highlights the key take-aways from David’s conversation with Thomas, including the strategies, challenges, and successes that shaped Grenke’s experience.

You probably know that we have a generous free plan that allows you to send 20 million events per month. This is enough for many of our customers. In fact, some have developed neat techniques to keep themselves underneath the event limit. I’m going to share one way here—hopefully no one at Honeycomb notices!

I have worked as a helpdesk specialist, cyber security analyst, information systems security engineer, professional services consultant, etc. At this point in my career, I have seen enough to relate with anyone in the IT world. Let’s narrow our focus and chat about monitoring system health and troubleshooting. Tool sprawl is the standard.

Recently, Brandon Woods of Keysight Technologies shared two workflows that his team was able to implement with Nexthink Flow – allowing them to save time by solve problems more quickly and without human intervention.

In the intricate web of modern software systems and full-stack observability, knowing how requests flow and interact across distributed components is paramount. Distributed tracing tools can help you. To better understand how distributed tracing works and benefits, here’s our selection of top distributed tracing tools to choose from.

In today's world, you have almost no chance of succeeding without a solid online presence. Sounds reasonable, but where do you start? A good and user-friendly website would be a perfect first step. Yet, when you begin researching this question, it turns out there are many different content management systems (CMS). Which one is better in your case? To simplify the choice for you, today, we'll compare two of the giants in the industry – Joomla and WordPress.