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The ultimate guide to on-call schedules

An Ultimate Guide to on-call schedules? You might think this sounds overly grandiose for what’s essentially putting people into a list and rotating through them. But you’d be flat-out wrong. Getting your on-call setup correct is as real and as important as it gets, and getting things wrong can lead to prolonged incidents, burnt out employees, and damaged company reputation.

Monitoring Azure Logic Apps Standard: Auto-Correction and Alert Configuration

The video discusses monitoring Logic Apps Standard, specifically at the workflow level. Michael Stephenson - Product owner for Turbo360, explains how to configure alerts and auto-correction for workflows in Logic Apps Standard. He demonstrates how to set up a rule to trigger an alert when a workflow is disabled and how to auto-correct the workflow back to an enabled state.

The Role of Technology in Enhancing Incident Response Call Etiquette

The interconnectedness of today's business environment has significantly heightened the complexity of incident response (IR). The need for immediate action, precise communication, and real-time collaboration is more critical than ever. However, beyond the technical precision required in solving problems, there lies an often overlooked aspect of effective IR management: the etiquette of incident response calls.

The Ultimate Guide to a Smooth Dev Environment Setup: Tips and Best Practices

Setting up a development environment can be challenging, especially for new developers or those adapting to new developer tools. A well-configured environment is crucial for efficient coding, testing, and debugging, enhancing productivity and minimizing errors. This guide will walk you through everything you need to know, from the basics to advanced customizations for different operating systems.

Investigating TCP timeouts at scale

At Mattermost, we’re on a quest to scale our application by one order of magnitude, from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of concurrently active users per installation. Scaling up is a complex effort involving expertise at several different levels. At its core, it’s a game of catching the next bottleneck — whether it’s application CPU usage, memory consumption, database throughput, networking, or any combination of the above (among other causes as well).

Logic App Workspaces: A Comprehensive Overview

In this episode of Azure on Air podcast, Lex interviews Bill Chestnut, a seasoned MVP. Logic Apps Workspaces is a new feature in Azure that allows users to create and manage both Logic Apps and Functions in the same workspace, making it easier to share code and resources between the two. Bill discusses the challenges of writing code in Logic Apps and how Logic Apps Workspaces addresses these issues. He also shares his experiences with deploying Logic Apps and Functions using bicep scripts and Azure DevOps.

Understand how the Cyber Resilience Act will impact device manufacturers

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a European Union legislation that will enter into force in 2027. Its overall goal is to make devices safer by implementing more rigorous cybersecurity, documentation, and vulnerability reporting requirements for the IT industry. The CRA is especially relevant for device manufacturers, who will need to ensure devices are secure throughout the product lifecycle.

Autoscaling in Cloud Computing

Autoscaling in cloud computing is the ability of a system to adjust its resources in response to changes in demand automatically. This guarantees that applications always have the resources they need to perform optimally, even during periods of high traffic. Autoscaling eliminates manual intervention, allowing your dev team time to focus on your product. All major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform offer robust autoscaling solutions with many features and capabilities.