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Publishing & Securing Legacy Applications

In the previous blog post, we discussed load balancing essentials and methods of traffic distribution among the real servers. When you publish an application with Kemp LoadMaster you can add lots of extra capabilities on top of the basic load balancing. In this post we’re going to look at ways of securely publishing legacy applications using the LoadMaster Edge Security Pack (ESP) and SSL Acceleration features.

Key differences: Dashboard Server vs. SquaredUp for SCOM/Azure

If you’ve checked out SquaredUp for SCOM/Azure and decided for one reason or another that it wasn’t the right tool for you, you are in for a treat! Our latest free tool, Dashboard Server, addresses many of the same pain points, but this time, for a variety of platforms not tied to SCOM or Azure. On the flip side, if you’re currently using SquaredUp for SCOM/Azure, don’t click away!

What is IaaS? How IaaS Different from SaaS and PaaS?

The cloud is a hot topic for everyone from small companies to multinational corporations, but it's also a vast term that covers a lot of online ground. It's more important than ever to appreciate the differences and benefits of the different cloud providers when you consider moving your company to the cloud, whether for application or infrastructure deployment. Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is a cloud-based service that provides virtualized computing resources to businesses over the internet.

Datadog on Chaos Engineering

As you scale your applications, remaining resilient to underlying network failures, resource constraints introduced by other applications, or spikes in traffic can become exponentially more complex, even with very thorough testing and processes. Chaos engineering is a discipline that encourages experimenting in production and injecting controlled failures into the system to understand how the system will react in such conditions and to improve its reliability.

Anomaly Detection on Observability Data using Machine Learning

Machine learning helps detect undesired behaviors in your observability data. This makes it easier to spot performance degradation in your applications, services, or instances. In this video, you'll learn how to automate anomaly detections using machine learning on your observability data.

Build a CircleCI Dashboard to visualize all your CI/CD data

If you’ve checked out SquaredUp for SCOM/Azure and decided for one reason or another that it wasn’t the right tool for you, you are in for a treat! Our latest free tool, Dashboard Server, addresses many of the same pain points, but this time, for a variety of platforms not tied to SCOM or Azure. On the flip side, if you’re currently using SquaredUp for SCOM/Azure, don’t click away!

How to Measure Network Performance: 5 Network Metrics

As more companies continue to rely on SaaS and cloud applications to run their businesses, it becomes important for them to ensure their network infrastructures can withstand the demand, and that they’re able to offer their services quickly and reliably. Continuous network monitoring can help you ensure that your network is always performing at its highest level. So, we’re running you through exactly how to measure network performance, and what network metrics you should be looking at.