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Using the Monitoring Calendar to drive reducing your support overhead

One of my favorite features in Serverless360 is the monitoring calendar. It is something we added in 2022. The feature aims to help give you a view over time about when your business application has experienced problems that would have triggered warnings or errors based on the monitoring you have configured.

How to review your CircleCI configuration

Configuration files can take some time to set up, but after that initial push they are easy to forget about. “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it” is a common approach that many developers take with their configuration files. But when it comes to your continuous integration pipelines, small changes can have huge benefits.

How to audit Node.js modules

Node.js is one of the best and most widely used Javascript runtimes used for building APIs. But, this popularity status has led to many hackers distributing insecure modules that exploit the Node.js application or provide a weak point for exploitation. In this tutorial, you will learn how to audit Node.js modules and also detect vulnerabilities in modules using npm audit.

3 ways to improve your incident management posture today

Too many of us are still playing whack-a-mole when it comes to incidents: an incident is declared, the on-call engineer is paged, the incident is resolved and then forgotten — until next time. It’s time to start thinking in terms of proactive incident management, not just reactive incident response.

Top Liquid and Immersion Cooling Vendors for High-Density Racks

As rack densities rise and concern about the sustainability of data centers grows, data center managers need a way to not only cool their equipment but do so as efficiently as possible. To efficiently cool racks of 20 kW or more, organizations are seriously investigating liquid cooling and immersion cooling.

Receiving PagerDuty alerts from MetricFire

One of the most critical aspects of monitoring your digital assets is getting a timely alert when something goes wrong. Even when you finish building a monitoring stack and expose metrics on a beautifully designed dashboard if you cannot notice abnormal behaviors and fail to take pre-emptive or follow-up actions swiftly, this means your monitoring system does not serve the purpose.