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We are happy to announce that Bitbucket Pipelines now supports macOS self-hosted runners. We have moved from beta to an official release. You can now create a self-hosted runner and run it on your macOS infrastructure to run macOS and iOS builds. Since you’re using your own runner, you won't be charged for Bitbucket Pipelines build minutes.

In 1988, Neil Rackham wrote SPIN Selling, a book designed to teach a sales method revolving around problem-solving rather than following a script.

Meetings are a necessary evil in any workplace. They can be long, tedious, and often unproductive. But post-mortem (PM) meetings are different. They are one of the most valuable meetings a service-oriented organization can have. Post-mortem meetings are an essential part of any project manager's toolkit. They provide an opportunity to reflect on what went well and what could be improved upon in future projects.

The new release of Vantage DX takes discoverability of Microsoft Teams call quality to the next level, with at a glance insight into the end-to-end environment supporting Microsoft Teams calls, including the network and session border controller(SBC). Check out the Top 10 Questions to Ask about the Microsoft Teams User Experience and read on to understand how Vantage DX provides the answers.

Splunk embodies the top 5 principles of unified security and observability, and has been an expert in log management, security, and observability for years.

Cloud spend — which research shows makes up 51% of IT budgets — is a prime candidate for company cost savings initiatives with the potential to make a huge difference in gross margins. It’s also an area that has grown dramatically in the last few years due to digital transformation and a rise in cloud demand during the pandemic.

To minimize the security risks of an application, developers need their apps to stand up to stringent security testing. Fortunately, there are tools available that simplify and even automate these security tests. There are also best practices to guide and inform the testing process. In this article, I will cover the most common security issues for mobile apps and highlight popular security tests.

Those who have been paying close attention might have recently noticed small changes in sessions, browsers and platforms lists on Raygun. If you’re using RUM to diagnose user experience issues in different browsers and operating systems down to the detailed versions you will have seen that those details are not always available, with browser versions listed more generally as Firefox 102.0 or Chrome 103.0, for example.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is an isolated and secure virtual network in which you can deploy resources, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instances, while restricting their exposure to the internet. As part of your monitoring strategy, you can collect and analyze VPC flow logs, which record network traffic flow between VPC components.

IBM this week announced patches for high-severity vulnerabilities in IBM MQ, warning that attackers could exploit them to bypass security restrictions or access sensitive information. Messaging and queuing middleware, IBM MQ provides enterprise-grade messaging between applications, enabling the transfer of data between programs and the sending of messages to multiple subscribers. Two security issues were resolved in IBM MQ this week, both residing within the libcurl library.