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4 Tips for Creating a Successful Backup Strategy

Businesses of all sizes lose an average of $4,500 for every minute of downtime they experience, and often that downtime is a result of data loss. Data loss can occur for a multitude of reasons, such as theft, natural disasters, software corruption, or human error. In addition, you can combat the adverse effects of data loss by creating a backup strategy.

Telework: The employer's obligations

Government measures that were put in place to limit the spread of covid-19 forced employers to change the working conditions of employees. The most common measure was the requirement to work remotely whenever possible. With the relaxation of health measures, some employers have decided to reinstate the working conditions that previously existed. Others, on the other hand, have opted for the flex office to continue to offer employees the opportunity to work from home.

Open source solutions that drive logistics sector's digital transformation

As with organisations in many other industries, logistics services are under intense pressure to remain competitive to face severe market disruption. Disruptive innovation has reached this industry, which is currently experiencing strong inflexion points. The logistics sector is being forced to innovate as rapidly and quickly as possible. Therefore, organisations need to stay competitive and drive innovation processes.

Fixing SCOM's blind spots

Since its origins as MOM 2000, SCOM has been widely regarded for being awesome at two things: firstly, being the hands-down best solution for monitoring Windows Server environments (it is Microsoft’s monitoring tool, after all); and secondly, being an extensible monitoring platform that can act as a single pane of glass across your data center environment.

4 Tips to Manage Heavy Construction Equipment Management

The construction industry is filled with lots of equipment that is essential for running daily operations. Without them, it will be a hectic task and time-consuming as well. Therefore, it is significant to keep the equipment maintained and in good shape. But how to do that because assets are kept in distinct locations and how will they get maintenance on time? This is where equipment asset management software comes into play!

Getting Started With Docker Compose and Speedscale CLI

Observability, introspection, logging, and dependency mapping are critical when building APIs. With the advent of microservice architecture, understanding what happens inside your container is vital during development. Speedscale CLI is a container-centric tool that allows you to monitor inbound and outbound traffic. With Speedscale CLI, you can monitor raw requests, latency, encoding, and detected technologies.

Ask Miss O11y: When should you delete instrumentation?

When do you delete instrumentation? You delete instrumentation when you delete code. Other than that, if you’re doing things right: almost never. One of the best things about honeycomb is that it completely transforms the incentives around preserving instrumentation. With metrics-based tools, the most valuable metrics are always custom metrics. You need to define a custom metric for literally any question you might ever want to ask about the app and its utilization or performance.

11 Tips for Using GitLens in VS Code

GitLens is the number one Git extension for VS Code, helping over 14 million developers unlock the power of Git in their favorite editor! Here are 11 expert tips on how to make the most of using GitLens right now! Optimize your Git experience with VS Code today – install GitLens to enjoy better project history visualization and insights! Install GitLens Free!

Recipe for Great In-Person Events: 5 Key DO's and DON'Ts

For the last couple of years, most of us have been working from spare rooms, bar stools at our kitchen islands, the couch, and even garages retrofitted into home offices. The pandemic has changed the world of work forever. It has also dramatically changed the world of networking and events. Since March of 2020, we’ve seen networking move to virtual spaces in the following forms: Many have spent a significant amount of time and energy building up their digital presence in the last two years.