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Nowadays, REST is ubiquitous across most kinds of applications. It provides an easy, simple and clear language to communicate between services, usually a frontend and a backend. Although, there are many good alternatives and I want to talk about one in particular - gRPC. From my days as a Software Engineer at Google, I have grown quite fond of gRPC. Google uses it everywhere, from communicating between frontend and backend, to communicating with database servers to all kinds of microservices.

Now you can get your alerts on incidents anywhere you want! It's very probable that you already know Zapier, but if you don't know it, here's a brief intro. Zapier is one of everyone's favorite tools on the internet. It connects everything! You can easily connect systems that don't speak directly with each other or automate repetitive tasks with no code. That's one of the reasons we decided to create an integration. It was the easiest way to connect IsDown with the world 😁.

Raygun has a long history of continually improving the quality and capability of our Crash reporting grouping logic. Across thousands of customers, it’s essential to help teams quickly discern where to allocate their resources to fix bugs, resolve performance issues, and create better experiences for customers. Today, we’re pleased to launch a new and improved grouping system for Python.

Technology advancements have now made it possible for organizations to adopt virtual desktop technologies in a hassle-free manner, from the cloud. Microsoft’s multi-session Windows desktop technologies supported on Azure cloud allow admins to provision virtual desktops on-demand. Integration with Azure Active Directory and FSLogix ensures secure access with efficient profile management.

Change is inevitable in this world, and that includes your website. The best way to stay current with the latest trends and technology and meet all of your user experience, speed, performance, conversion, and optimization needs is through a website redesign. A well-designed website will be more user-friendly and conversion-optimized. On the other hand, a website that is not updated regularly can quickly become dated and lose its impact. A poorly designed website will do more harm than good.

Serverless is a technique for executing operations and running cloud compute services on an as-needed basis. Serverless computing is the latest trend in the cloud computing world. It has made it much easier to develop, deploy, and scale applications. Serverless computing means that developers don't need to worry about anything other than their code. They don't need to provision a server or install software to run their code.

It’s time to shoot for the stars with Dan Isla, VP of Product at itopia, to talk about everything from astronomical importance of reliability to time zones on Mars. Dan’s trajectory has been a propulsion of jobs bordering on the science fiction, with a history at NASA, modernizing cloud computing for them, and loads more. Dan discusses the finite room for risk and failure in space travel with an anecdote from his work on Curiosity.

With the covid-19 pandemic, the demand for broadband communication services has soared and experienced a 60% increase in internet traffic compared to before the crisis However, with prolonged times spent at our homes during the lockdown, continuous network connectivity has become the need of the hour for the entire world.

This is the third part of my DevOps 101 series, so before we get going, let’s do a quick recap of what we’ve covered previously In DevOps 101: What, who, why, and how, I talked about how the definition from Microsoft’s Donovan Brown encapsulates DevOps succinctly as: The union of people, process, and products, to enable the continuous delivery of value to the end users.

With huge variations of customized applications and modules depending on the individual organization though, highly sensitive data - if not secured properly - can be extremely vulnerable. In this article, we’ll discuss SAP security, the process of conducting an SAP security audit and steps to take to improve on your SAP security processes. Take an in depth look at how your SAP Basis teams can manage SAP system security and compliance with comprehensive SAP security audits.