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What Is Website Maintenance?

Website maintenance is an important part of running a successful website. This article will look at the main parts of website maintenance, such as managing content, security steps, checking performance, and managing users. We will also talk about the good things that come from regular website maintenance and best ways to keep your website in great shape.

How To Resolve "fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting" Git Error

When working on a shared Git repository, you may sometimes see the "fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting" error. This happens when your local branch and the remote branch have split, meaning the remote branch has new commits that are not in your local branch. In this article, we'll look at the steps to fix this error and talk about some good habits to prevent it in the future.

Redis monitoring in Applications Manager

Redis monitoring involves tracking the health and performance of your Redis databases to ensure high availability and accessibility for the data stored within them. Monitoring helps you keep a close eye on critical Redis performance metrics, provides you with in-depth insights for understanding resource utilization and capacity planning, and enables quick incident resolution in case of a performance disruption.

Monitoring the IBM Power Ecosystem using Microsoft Azure

In today’s interconnected and hybrid cloud environments, effective system monitoring is crucial for maintaining performance, reliability, and security. This technical presentation explores how Microsoft Azure enables comprehensive monitoring of the IBM Power ecosystem, explicitly focusing on AIX, Linux on Power, and Linux on Z Series operating systems. Further, active monitoring of HMC and VIOS is considered.

Step By Step Guide to Monitoring Your Apache HTTP Servers

Monitoring Apache HTTP servers is crucial for ensuring they are always available and perform optimally, helping to identify and resolve bottlenecks and inefficiencies. It aids in capacity planning and security by detecting abnormal activities and potential security threats. Regular monitoring also facilitates troubleshooting, improves service reliability, and ensures compliance with regulatory standards.

Top 20 Web Application Monitoring Tools in 2024

Whether you run your web app or rely on third-party services such as HubSpot, Slack, Basecamp, and Gmail, staying on top of web applications has become a part of many businesses’ daily business activities. As a result, modern web application monitoring software has become necessary for every company. Web application monitoring software allows users to monitor and assess various aspects of web apps, including functionality, efficiency, and performance.

Datadog Conversations: How Life360 Keeps Families Safe with Observability

Life360 is a family safety app driven by the mission to protect and connect people, pets, and things. Naveen Puvvula, Director of Cloud Operations, and Jesse Gonzalez, Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, discuss why observability is critical to achieving reliability and how they continue to deliver real-time location updates for their users even during high-traffic events. Finally, they share their advice for other tech leaders in the industry to choose partners that align closely to solve problems together and technologies that reduce friction and improve developer joy.

Hybrid observability for manufacturing enterprises: Top 5 challenges and how monitoring can help

The manufacturing sector is at a crossroads. Industry 4.0 brought with it a wave of innovation, with the industrial internet of things (IIoT), advanced automated, and AI-driven analytics. Now, we’re experiencing the onset of Industry 5.0, where humans work alongside smart machines to create more sustainable products, services, and supply chains.

Hybrid observability for banks and financial services organizations: Top 5 challenges and how monitoring can help

Facing rising technical complexity and pressure from regulators, these are challenging times for financial services organizations. Given the near- and long-term uncertainties, organizations must focus on what’s coming next. That includes navigating technological disruption and the way it’s shaping experiences and expectations for employees and customers alike. Now, 73% of banking interactions happen over digital channels.

Ping vs Packet Loss Explained

Network latency and packet loss are two important metrics that can greatly affect the performance and user experience of applications and services that rely on network communication. This article will explain what latency and packet loss are, how they change network performance, and how to fix problems related to these metrics. We'll also look at real examples and situations to show the real impact of latency and packet loss on different applications.