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8 Key Indicators of a Healthy Website You Should Always Monitor

Hey there, tech enthusiasts! In the bustling digital world, your website’s health is like a heartbeat — vital and an excellent indicator of overall wellness. Ever wondered what makes a website, like a healthy heart, tick just right? We’re here to unveil eight crucial indicators that are essential for a healthy and robust website. And guess what? Your pals at Uptime.com have just the tools to help you keep your finger on the pulse.

Troubleshooting Microsoft Teams & Internet Performance for Multi-Site Businesses with Obkio: Isothermic Case Study

If your enterprise operates manufacturing facilities and multiple store locations, you're well aware of the management and communication challenges that arise from poor application performance, such as Microsoft Teams, and the disruptions caused by Internet VPN issues for both employees and customers. This case study provides a clear path to establishing effective network performance monitoring and troubleshooting these network issues.

Chaos engineering in an Azure environment: Confident enough to try it?

What could go wrong with your Azure environment? Netflix gave the world two beautiful gifts: a media streaming platform for the general public and a wonderful monkey for the tech community. Enough has been said about the media streaming part, so let's play (or work) with the monkey now. When Netflix let the world know about Chaos Monkey, the tech community took a minute to stand and applaud. Since then, it has been a standard to unleash intentional chaos just to see how robust our tech stacks really are.

IT in Motion: The ScienceLogic Innovation Story

ScienceLogic CEO and Co-founder, Dave Link, jumps on the IT in Motion podcast for a special episode revealing our NEW book, Innovation: Journey and Outcomes for the AIOps Revolution. In this episode, Dave discusses the inspiration for writing the book as well as some of his favorite chapters in the story.

Honeycomb CCP Games Case Study

Imagine a universe in which a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) sets Guinness World Records for the size of its online space battles—and that game is built on 20-year-old code. Well, imagine no more. Welcome to the world of EVE Online, where hundreds of thousands of players interact across 7,800+ star systems and participate in more than one million daily market transactions. As you might guess, updating and maintaining this codebase without interrupting game play could pose quite a challenge.

Home Shopping Europe (HSE) increases customer satisfaction using Elasticsearch on AWS

Home Shopping Europe (HSE), a prominent player in the European live commerce sector, has revolutionized its customer experience by leveraging Elastic on AWS. Elastic's AI and ML features in Elasticsearch deliver accurate and relevant search results. This enhancement has not only elevated click-through rates by 4% but has also significantly reduced maintenance time by 42%, marking a pivotal shift for HSE's e-commerce business.

Datadog Conversations: Toyota's Shift to Software-First Mobility

As the world’s largest automotive manufacturer and the leading software-first mobility company, Toyota leans on Datadog to achieve its goals of delivering value to customers and uplifting employees with new technologies and processes. Jason Ballard, IT Executive and General Manager, shares his top priorities for the enterprise in North America and offers his advice for how other leaders in the industry can transform their business.

Testing logging code with Microsoft.Extensions.Logging and FakeLogger

Unit testing is most often used for testing business logic. But what if you want to ensure that your code logs important messages to your log store? In this post, I'll introduce you to FakeLogger and how it can be used to test logging code when using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging and the ILogger interface. So, let's start by discussing why to even unit-test logging code. Adding good logging to your code is an often forgotten or down-prioritized practice.

A simple guide to becoming an Azure Reseller for MSPs

As Microsoft Azure continues its rapid growth, becoming an Azure reseller presents a major opportunity for managed service providers (MSPs) to expand their offerings and drive recurring revenue. This comprehensive guide will walk through everything MSPs need to know to successfully start reselling Azure services.