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Monitoring Webapp Performance with Sitespeed

In today's digital landscape, optimal web application performance is crucial for business success. Slow loading times, unresponsive pages, and inefficient code can drive away users and harm your reputation. This makes monitoring web app performance extremely important to prevent them and to provide a smooth user experience. Sitespeed, a powerful web performance monitoring framework, analyzes metrics like page load time, resource usage, and user interactions to identify performance bottlenecks.

5 important features to look for in cybersecurity applications

In today’s digital landscape, organizations need the right cybersecurity applications to address evolving cyber threats effectively. To keep security teams aligned and streamline mission-critical workflows, one of the most important cybersecurity applications organizations need is a secure and efficient cybersecurity collaboration platform that enables seamless communication, information sharing, and coordinated incident response.

Enable and use GKE Control plane logs

Are you having any issues with the control plane components in your GKE Cluster? Are you interested in gaining visibility into the control plane side of the cluster to troubleshoot the issues by yourself? Then GKE Control Plane Logs is a great way to gain insights on what's going on with your cluster. In this video, we provide a quick overview about Control Plane components and logs, and show how to enable control plane logs on the new and existing GKE clusters. Watch this video to learn how to use Control plane logs to troubleshoot webhook and control plane latency issues in GKE clusters.

Enhancing the Ubuntu Experience on Azure: Introducing Ubuntu Pro Updates Awareness

Canonical works closely with Microsoft to ensure that running Ubuntu on Azure is a great experience. One of the key aspects of this collaboration is ensuring the longevity and security of Ubuntu releases, such as Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, even beyond their Standard Security Maintenance period. We are excited to announce the integration of Ubuntu Pro update awareness into Azure through the Azure Guest Patching Service (AzGPS) and Update Management Center (UMC).

LinkPool: Laying the foundations of a crypto ecosystem

Blockchain-generated smart contracts are transforming the way the world creates and settles agreements. Jonathan Huxtable and the team at LinkPool are using platformEDGE™ to connect these contracts with real-world data sources. In 2017, Google searches for the term Bitcoin peaked. It seemed like everyone was talking about cryptocurrencies. For Jonathan Huxtable, this surge in interest didn’t come as a surprise. In fact, he’d predicted it.

Azure's Robust Journey with GDPR Compliance

In an age where data is the new gold, safeguarding personal information has become more vital than ever before. The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is no longer a buzzword in the corporate corridors of Europe; it’s a binding legislation that has set the global standard for privacy and security. Enter the world of Microsoft Azure, one of the leading cloud computing platforms that’s shaping the way businesses store, manage, and analyze data.

Solving the Never Ending Requirements of Authorization - Civo Navigate NA 2023

In this talk, Alex Olivier shares their personal experience with the challenges of constantly changing authorization requirements in software systems. They discuss the drawbacks of traditional if-else statement-based authorization logic and propose a more efficient and scalable solution using an authorization service called Cerbos. The talk explores the benefits of decoupling authorization logic into policies, providing a centralized and maintainable approach with a clear audit trail.

Why you need an internal status page

When we launched incident.io Status Pages a few months ago, we stressed the importance of communicating clearly with your customers about ongoing issues. To help with this, we spent a lot of time carefully designing a status page that’s easy to understand for everyone - whether they come from a technical background, work in a different area, or just want to get on with their day.