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How to Conduct Efficient Code Reviews with GitLens

Code reviews are a massively beneficial way to improve code quality, identify vulnerabilities, and establish coding best practices. According to Microsoft researchers, peer code reviews improve code quality by 15–35%. In addition, according to the Journal of Systems and Software, peer code reviews increase accountability by 30–40%.

Modernized Communications Needed For A Smooth Evolution To Smart!

As I’ve discussed in my previous blogs in this series, smart networks are becoming increasingly important in an ever-increasing range of industries. These smart networks can deliver significant benefits, but there are some risks, challenges and issues associated with moving to “smart”. In my final blog in the series I will discuss what is required from a modernized communications network to counter some of these risk, challenges and issues.

Iterate faster with Improved Cancelable Activities

Just the other day I was working on a side project. As we sometimes tend to do, I began on the production branch thinking to myself, “I’ll move this to the feature branch before I push”. Of course, as we tend to do, I forgot that I was working from the production branch and git push’ed—triggering a production deployment. I’d have loved to be able to abort that deployment at that moment.

The Forrester Wave: Infrastructure Automation Platforms Reviewed

Over two years after releasing The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q3 2020, Forrester recently released The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure Automation, Q1 2023 report. If you are unfamiliar with the most recent report, it examines eleven top vendors within this space, and their capabilities to help guide purchasing decisions based on need.

How to define roles for your incident response team

Agility matters in incident response, and the easiest way to spring into action is by having a well-defined team in place ahead of time. The right people in the right roles will help you respond to and resolve incidents more quickly and efficiently. In fact, we found in the Incident Benchmark Report that incidents with roles assigned had a 42% lower mean time to resolution than those that didn’t. But what roles do you need to fill?

Taking the Next Transformation Step With Telco Cloud

With communications evolving at a dizzying pace, service providers of all stripes are challenged to adopt the latest technologies and reshape their businesses for the new world. Telco Cloud, an area Ribbon is deeply focused on, is one of the key components in helping operators transform successfully.

Avoid kubernetes security risks with hardening best practices

Hardening a system is synonymous with reducing its attack surface: remove unnecessary software packages, lock down default values to the tightest possible settings and configure the system to only run what you explicitly require. Why would you want to harden your infrastructure and systems to start with? Isn’t Linux secure enough already? A fully secure system is made up of many layers, from the hardware to the operating system and the application servers running your mission-critical code.

Why the Rail Communications Infrastructure Must Be Brought Into the 21st Century

Rail operators rely on their communications network to support an increasing and varied set of both legacy and modernized systems to improve safety, reduce carbon footprint, manage expanding freight and passenger loads, increase customer satisfaction, grow profitability, and comply with regulation.

Why Your Business Needs Enterprise Mobility Management

Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) Explained: Mobility is an unstoppable trend and its benefits are plentiful for businesses in 2022. However, great risks also follow and businesses must do their due diligence, which forces them to establish controls to balance the productivity. Whilst it is necessary to manage devices, there are other issues to consider. It is now vital to include applications and information that is distributed through smartphones and tablets.