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A 503 status code reveals an issue that typically appears when the site’s server is not reachable. The 2 main reasons are that the server is down for maintenance or that is overloaded.

Lots of organizations ignore the maintenance of assets but asset maintenance expenses are more compared to regular maintenance in the long run. That is why it is essential to implement a preventive maintenance program. Preventive maintenance program provides several other benefits That we will discuss later but first let us know what preventive maintenance is! So, without wasting any time let us begin.

Are your metrics, logs, and traces playing hard to get in your current observability setup? Feel like your on-call messages are left on read? Is the heatmap between your data sources fizzling out on your dashboard?

What do Olympic speed skaters and developers have in common? They have a need…a need for speed. 😏 Nobody likes moving slow, no matter if you’re competing for the gold, or just trying to deploy an awesome new feature. The GitKraken team has been hard at work making sure all GitKraken Client users, especially macOS users, have the speediest experience possible when leveraging our legendary Git client to collaborate with teams.

This article is about how to install Puppet Enterprise using your own self-signed Intermediate CA (Certificate Authority). In some environments, regulations require you to intercept and inspect all SSL traffic to detect malicious activities that could otherwise masquerade as legitimate encrypted traffic. This requires the ability to decrypt and re-encrypt the stream in real time, which can only be done with the proper certificates installed.

I re-stumbled across this mailing list post from Bryan Burke about some policy framework upgrade issues where he also asked about hooking in and customizing the update policy. I thought this sounded like a good opportunity for an example using a cfbs module. So, let’s take a look at making a cfbs module for a custom update policy. As mentioned in the thread there are just a couple of things you need to do in order to hook in and customize the behavior of the update policy.

The global chip shortage, which began in 2020, continues as demand for semiconductor chips continues to far outpace production. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger recently forecast shortages to be sustained through at least the remainder of 2022. As a result, IT operations teams at almost every company we’ve talked with have felt the crunch in the form of skyrocketing prices and delays of up to a year for procurement of physical servers.

Federal IT pros have historically had limited time and resources; this makes it crucial to find the source of application slowdowns or outages as quickly as possible. Database virtualization can help by allowing IT pros to separate the storage and application layers within the application stack more quickly, providing easier access to root-cause issues. An estimated 70% of databases are virtualized. Yet, the benefits of virtualized databases come with additional challenges.

The JFrog Security research team continuously monitors popular open source software (OSS) repositories with our automated tooling to detect and avert potential software supply chain security threats. After validating the findings, the team reports any security vulnerabilities or malicious packages discovered to repository maintainers and the wider community.

A recent eG Innovations & DevOps Institute APM survey of more than 900 IT professionals indicated that AWS is the dominant cloud service provider. Organizations are deploying a wide variety of workloads on AWS cloud environments to ensure agility, scalability, and high availability of their application services.