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Cloud computing can bring many benefits to financial services companies such as increased speed and agility, easier innovation and scalability. It is no wonder then that cloud adoption is set to continue increasing with 54% of financial services companies expected to have more than half of their entire IT footprint in public clouds in the next five years. However, despite the benefits that this can bring for financial services, it also brings a new set of challenges for financial market stability.

Every year there is a surprise in a Radar report. While it won’t be a surprise to our thousands of customers who are seeing tremendous benefits with us, PagerDuty is excited to be named a Leader in the 2022 GigaOm Radar for AIOps Solutions. GigaOm uses extensive criteria to evaluate vendors in their Radar.

Everyone in the software industry is in a race to become more agile. We all want to improve the performance of our software development lifecycle (SLDC). But how do you actually do that? If you want to improve your performance, first determine what KPI you’d like to improve. DORA metrics offer a good set of KPIs to track and improve. It started as a research by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) and Google Cloud (which later acquired DORA), to understand what makes high performing teams.

When I had my first child almost six years ago, I expected that most of my time would be spent in the role of a teacher rather than a student. I have two kids now — and I’m certainly teaching them as much as I can as they grow and learn to navigate the world — but if someone were keeping score, my kids might end up on top when it comes to who’s taught who more. Another thing that surprised me is how similar building a family is to build a company from the ground up.

Firmware update capability has become a must-have for most devices. Whether to add new features after launch, fix bugs, or urgently patch a security hole, firmware updates gives modern teams the flexibility they need to move fast and react to a changing environment. I’ve written at length about firmware updates in the past, including on Interrupt with a Firmware Update Cookbook and a post about code signing, and even recorded a webinar on the topic.

A Two Sigma engineer explains why we built Tensu, an open source TUI (text user interface)-based program for interacting with Sensu Go’s observability pipeline and backend API. In this article we will be putting a spotlight on Tensu, an open source terminal-based dashboard for interacting with and responding to events from the Sensu Go observability pipeline and backend API.

Cloud services were born at the beginning of 2000 with companies such as Salesforce and Amazon paving the way. Simple Queuing Service (SQS) was the first service to be launched by Amazon Web Services in November 2004. It was offered as a distributed queuing service and it is still one of the most popular services in AWS. By 2006 more and more services were added to the offering list.