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Large tech companies are monetizing and exploiting customer data in increasingly unpalatable ways. It’s no surprise that users are fighting back. It’s estimated between 25% and 50% of users are employing ad blockers. Unfortunately, some overzealous ad blocking tools have added TrackJS domains to their block lists. We believe the blocks are unwarranted (more below). We don’t sell or monetize our user data. Ever.

2021 is sure to bring a number of challenges for your MSP—here are some of the best tools on the market today that can help your company overcome these challenges. Managed services providers (MSPs) and other businesses that deal with sensitive data on behalf of their customers and their own organization face a range of challenges.

Today we’re here to show you the ropes on PHP monitoring. You’ll learn how to monitor the performance of your PHP applications. But why is doing this valuable in the first place? It used to be common for application performance to be considered a non-functional requirement. Things have changed, though. Nowadays, more and more software professionals have come to think of performance not as a nice-to-have, but as the most important must-have.

Amidst the nonstop pace of work to constantly evolve today’s digital business, we can forget to take a moment out to think about how it is that we’re doing that work. A new series of ‘coffee break’ webinars aim to provide that opportunity by pausing to look at the ways humans can best work with observability data. In particular, Coffee Break with Helen Beal looks at improving the work done by different types of software engineers that leverage artificial intelligence.

Drawing a good network diagram isn’t hard to make, but it can be distressingly rare. Even network engineers with years of experience often draw network diagrams that are jumbled and hard to understand. As a network administrator responsible for the network, it’s vitally important you have a detailed understanding of your network topology. Without this information, even basic troubleshooting can be unnecessarily difficult.

Companies are juggling multiple servers, applications, transactions, and web services in the modern digital world. This brings out the difficulty of keeping track of it all. Here’s where web applications monitoring steps in and gives an in-depth overview of all applications’ performance. Let’s take a step back and dig into the basics of web application monitoring.

Over the past year, the pandemic has created a number of new IT challenges, spurred on by the sudden shift to remote work. On the bright side: in the wake of these developments, companies across the globe have taken huge leaps in terms of their IT strategies. One such company is Paddy Power Betfair. When the Irish betting company Paddy Power merged with Betfair in 2016, they created one of the most powerful and unique brands in the world of online gambling.

Drawing a good network diagram isn’t hard to make, but it can be distressingly rare. Even network engineers with years of experience often draw network diagrams that are jumbled and hard to understand.

For our API, we’ve been happily using NewRelic’s monolog enricher for a while, which sends our application logs to NewRelic at the end of each request, making it light and fast for our system not to be bothered by it. Until it stopped working with the upgrade to Composer 2, and they knew about it for several months and still didn’t do a single thing to fix it. So I decided to move to Logflare. Logflare is a fast, light, scalable, and powerful logging aggregator.

This is what I’ve learned in 10 years of running an uptime monitoring business detecting over 2 million outages for over 4k users around the world…