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Azure Resource Monitoring: Setting Up Key Metrics Made Simple!

Setting up Azure Monitor to oversee all essential metrics and points of interest across every single Azure resource in a solution can be a challenging task. It consumes considerable time, especially when dealing with individual Azure resources, and the effort multiplies when managing numerous Azure resources. This video demonstrates how Serverless360 alleviates some of these challenges, simplifying the process of setting up effective Azure monitoring.

How to monitor Azure Automation Runbooks?

This video guides you through developing an Automation solution with Azure Automation accounts. The primary objective is to streamline the management and monitoring of these services for IT support operators, irrespective of their expertise in Azure. Mike demonstrates how you can add an automation runbook to a Business Application in Serverless360 to manage it alongside the other resources that make up your solution and how we can democratize some of the support to the IT support operators.

Identify and rectify network issues proactively with the OpManager-Jira integration

As technology evolves, it has become incredibly difficult for IT teams to work in the conventional siloed environment. Technologies such as NetDevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) call for collaborative efforts between various IT teams. This allows them to develop and deploy products much faster, streamline and automate their operations, and proactively detect and rectify issues as they crop up.

Does Anonymous Web Hosting Really Make You Anonymous?

If you want to stay anonymous on the internet, there are many ways to do it. You can use a VPN with your server, conduct payment with cryptocurrency, or purchase anonymous VPS hosting. In regards to anonymous web hosting, there are many questions associated with it such as what exactly anonymous web hosting means, how is it different from regular web hosting, and does it really helps you stay anonymous. We answer all of these questions in this article.

Marking deployments and more in Redgate Monitor

SQL Monitor is an essential tool for DBA teams worldwide, providing real-time monitoring of SQL Server and PostgreSQL performance. With SQL Monitor, you can easily track deployments, errors, and other events on the timeline. This feature, called annotations, allows you to quickly identify the root cause of performance issues and take corrective action. SQL Monitor’s timeline is a powerful tool that helps you stay on top of your database performance and keep your systems running smoothly.

Mastering IT Alerting: A Short Guide for DevOps Engineers

$575 million was the cost of a huge IT incident that hit Equifax, one of the largest credit reporting agencies in the U.S. In September 2017, Equifax announced a data breach that impacted approximately 147 million consumers. The breach occurred due to a vulnerability in the Apache Struts web application framework, which Equifax failed to patch in time. This vulnerability allowed hackers to access the company's systems and exfiltrate sensitive data. ‍

Debugging Go compiler performance in a large codebase

As we’ve talked about before, our app is a monolith: all our backend code lives together and gets compiled into a single binary. One of the reasons I prefer monolithic architectures is that they make it much easier to focus on shipping features without having to spend much time thinking about where code should live and how to get all the data you need together quickly. However, I’m not going to claim there aren’t disadvantages too. One of those is compile times.

Managing software in complex network environments: the Snap Store Proxy

As enterprises grapple with the evolving landscape of security threats, the need to safeguard internal networks from the broader internet is increasingly important. In environments with restricted internet access, it can be difficult to manage software updates in an easy, reliable way. When managing devices in the field, change management and compliance policies can introduce even more complexity to the update process. You can solve these challenges using snaps and the Snap Store Proxy.

5 Ways CloudZero Found Savings Using Its Own Platform

Naturally, our own platform forms the backbone of our cloud cost savings strategy. And before releasing any new feature, we try it out ourselves to see how well it helps us manage our own SaaS costs. If it works well for us, that means there’s already one satisfied user in the world — and there will likely be more!

"The first versions of Copilot were just...comically bad." | GitKraken's Eric Amodio at #Dockercon

At #Dockercon 2023, #GitKraken CTO Eric Amodio reflected on the early days of AI in the software development landscape, particularly his experience watching #GitHub #Copilot evolve from a clunky language model to one of the most popular #AI tools for devs.