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How to Simplify ITSM Integrations with iPaaS

Integration is a crucial aspect of modern IT service management. By linking their ITSM platform with external applications, businesses can simplify their IT operations, enhance efficiency and flexibility, and provide better customer service. Real-time integration allows businesses to quickly adapt to changing circumstances and ensure that IT services align with business requirements. However, ITSM integration can be complex and difficult.

Finally: alerting and on-call scheduling for how you actually work

TL;DR You deserve a better alerting and on-call tool. So we built Signals. In our early days, we often used the tagline, “You just got paged. Now what?” It encapsulated how FireHydrant solved for all of the messy bits that come after your alert is fired, from incident declaration all the way through to retrospective. At the time, we saw alerting and on-call scheduling as a solved problem.

Demystifying Java Lambda Expressions

SRE and IT Operations play a critical role in ensuring reliable, high-performance applications. Yet, SREs (Site Reliability Engineers) often face ‘thrown-over-the-wall’ code deployments to operate without having insights into the code-level features. In my previous article (“Is your Java Observability tool Lambda Expressions aware?”), I delved into one such code-level feature: Java lambda expressions which replace anonymous inner classes.

How to detect and overcome Kubernetes CPU Throttling

A few days ago, I challenged myself: Could I create a CPU throttling monitor without using StackState's docs page? I'll go a bit deeper into CPU throttling later, but first: Why this mission? At StackState, we believe that every software developer should be able to observe the health and reliability of their own application — quickly and easily.

N-central 2024.1: Upgraded EDR integration, Patch Management Enhancement and more...

In a recent interview with Ewan Cameron, the Product Manager behind N-central RMM, we got an exclusive insight into the groundbreaking features and improvements rolled out in the first release of N-central for 2024. So, let’s dive into the key highlights of N-central 2024.1.

The Top Five Benefits and Challenges of Hybrid Cloud

In recent years, hybrid cloud environments have emerged as a popular, if not de facto, choice for many organizations seeking flexibility, scalability, and security in their IT infrastructure. Industry research firm Mordor Intelligence pegs hybrid cloud as a nearly $130bn market in 2024, growing at a better than 22% clip over the next five years.

What's New in Sysdig - February 2024

Hey there! I’m Devin Limo, a Senior Customer Solutions Architect here at Sysdig. February was a whirlwind, and we’ve got some awesome updates you don’t want to miss. From deep dives into critical vulnerabilities to game-changing product updates, we’ve got you covered. Hot off the press: Falco has graduated within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)!

How to create a search engine

Search engines are one of those things in life we take for granted. Whenever we’re looking for something, we throw a word or phrase into a search engine and, like magic, it gives us a list of matching results. It might not feel as magical nowadays because it’s something we do every day. But anyone who remembers the days of Alta Vista should understand how well we have it now.

Telco-grade Sylva-compliant Canonical platforms

In December 2023, Canonical joined the Sylva project of Linux Foundation Europe to provide fully open-source and upstream telco platform solutions to the project. Sylva aims to tackle the fragmentation in telco cloud technologies and the vendor lock-in caused by proprietary platform solutions, by defining a common validation software framework for telco core and edge clouds.

Combating IT Alert Fatigue

With the growing complexity of IT systems, managing alerts and notifications without succumbing to the crippling effects of alert fatigue has never been more challenging. Alert Fatigue occurs when the volume of notifications makes it impossible to discern signal from noise, desensitizing the recipient to warnings, some of which end up representing critical issues.