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Don't measure reliability with a lagging indicator like downtime or MTTR

Your reliability measurement can't just be a lagging indicator. "How do you know your company is doing well at reliability? A lot of people will just look at how many outages have you had in the last year and how much customer pain have you caused? I think that's one side of the coin. That's the reactive lagging indicator of the health of our system. To really be good at this, we need a way to understand the risks and the sharp points so that we have an idea of what we're getting into.

How to figure out where: decoding the 'colocation versus on-premise' library

For anyone researching ‘on-premise vs. colocation,’ the results soon become repetitive. Google, AI, and YouTube all return similar material on the pros and cons of each option. Some even include public cloud as a consideration. Yet they all reach exactly the same conclusion: that as a business, you need to figure out what is right for you. Whilst the advice is sound, it is also limited. How exactly can a business assess which infrastructure option is right for them?

How to use Black Screen Mode to maintain the remote device during Remote Control

Welcome to this tutorial video where we walk you through the process of using Black Screen Mode to prevent outside interference during device maintenance. AirDroid Business is a mobile device management (MDM) solution that helps you manage all your Android devices effectively and securely.

State of Cloud Costs

Organizations face significant challenges in increasing the efficiency of their growing cloud spending, even as the flexibility and variety of available cloud services offer many opportunities for optimization. Cloud environments are complex and dynamic due to the breadth of services and the drive to adopt new technologies, such as Arm-based processors and GPUs that enable AI capabilities.

Best Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Tools (Updated 2024)

Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools enable the automation of cloud infrastructure and IT infrastructure deployment and management. These configuration management tools allow DevOps teams and development teams to define computing infrastructure resources as code in configuration files, use version control systems like GitHub, and deploy infrastructure consistently across different environments, from on-premises data centers to cloud services.

Office Hours: How to test zone redundancy using Gremlin

•Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Zone failures are rare, but they still happen. When an entire zone fails, many of the most common redundancy techniques fail. How do you avoid outages like these, especially if they affect an entire datacenter?

Easily View Git Activity in Jira #shorts #GitIntegrationforJira

Git Integration for Jira lets team leads easily track development activities, view code diffs, and manage commits without ever leaving Jira. Tired of juggling multiple platforms? Now you can stay on top of your code in one place! Watch our full Getting Started guide here on YouTube for more details.