Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Hey there. What do you feel about taking a trip back in time? Let’s say we go back 20 years; you probably remember seeing your school’s shelves and cupboards brimming and overflowing with records and books. And below it would be the years or categories. Having to scour through the load would take a substantial amount of time, not to forget a lot of patience. Imagine browsing through all those records, it could take you anywhere from minutes to hours to find what you were looking for.

Maintenance is one major part of all assets & equipment. It is helpful in keeping safe from unexpected equipment failure, that is why automated software is crucial for an organization. This is where CMMS and plant maintenance comes into play. However, there are lots of similarities between CMMS and plant maintenance, but they are different from each other. In this blog, we will know how CMMS and plant maintenance are different.

Modern programs run on APIs. In digital transformation efforts, APIs are often the building blocks used to push organizations into the current digital age. For business-critical transactions, most applications, therefore, rely on APIs. Without truly understanding what’s going on behind the scenes with each API endpoint, organizations create blind spots in their performance. Let us see more about API and how important it is to monitor the API, and how we can easily monitor the API endpoint.

Virtualization technology provider VMware acquired CloudHealth in August 2018. VMware hoped the new addition would enable more organizations to manage services on other cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and their private data centers. So, what does CloudHealth do and how much does it cost? Is it a good all-in-one platform for cloud management? This guide explores CloudHealth pricing, features, and possible alternatives to help you decide if the solution is right for you (or if there is a better option).

A few episodes ago, we talked with fellow podcaster and tech evangelist Dotan Horovits. During that episode, Dotan shared that he wrote a blog post with Jujhar Singh called “How Much Observability Is Enough?” which is definitely a recommended read if you’re implementing observability and feeling overwhelmed. After reading this article, we were eager to invite Jujhar to the StackPod as well, to dive into this topic a bit more.

Creating a business plan is hard in itself, but keeping it during a crisis requires a high level of expertise. Luckily, you can prepare your company for disruptive situations beforehand with the help of business continuity planning. Since the pandemic, we’re even more aware of how disasters and disruptions can hit anyone, any industry, in any way or form. It disrupted supply chains, made a majority of the workforce work from home, and introduced a rapid lifestyle shift all over the world.

Google has introduced so many innovations that it’d be impossible to list them all. And we’re not just talking about the obvious things like search engine algorithms or nearly-ubiquitous programs and apps (Google Maps, Docs, Gmail) — not even self-driving cars. Today, we’re going to talk about one such innovation: Site Reliability Engineering. In a nutshell, SRE it’s a practical framework for software development that improves on even giants like DevOps. Wait, what?

Developers rejoice! The Multipass team has been listening to your feedback, and we are excited to announce that the latest update to Multipass contains one of our most requested features – instance modification. For those who are just discovering Multipass, it’s software designed to make working with virtual machines as painless as possible. It has an intuitive command line interface, and abstracts away the hard work of configuring, launching, modifying and destroying VMs.

In this article, I’m going to walk you through adding attributes to your spans in.NET that contain information about the code that generated the span. We’ll also look at ways to do this automatically using a library I’ve created.

Many organizations struggle to create data-driven cultures where each employee is empowered to make decisions based on data. This is especially true for enterprises with a variety of systems and tools in use across different teams. If you are a leader, manager, or executive focused on how your team can leverage Google's SRE practices or wider DevOps practices, definitely you are in the right place!