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Why Your Online Business Needs SMS Messaging in 2020

2020 might be the year that we get mainstream adoption of folding cell phones and 5G connectivity, but some things don't change, and SMS usage appears to be one of them. This reliable technology is still widely used by businesses, professionals, and consumers on a daily basis, even as social media dominates our lives. SMS messaging is just convenient and quick.

Get EQU8 and BugSplat free for your online multiplayer game

There's a lot to consider when building a game, but one thing that a team shouldn't have to worry about is expensive and difficult to maintain tools. That's why BugSplat and EQU8 have partnered to offer a pre-release package to aid in the development and launch of new games. Through this partnership, studios building a new game get access to a package of world-class bug reporting and anti-cheat tools for free.

Get BugSplat Alerts in Discord

Connecting your Discord account with BugSplat allows your team to get alerted to new crashes without leaving Discord. You can now link your Discord and BugSplat accounts to receive crash alerts directly in Discord. For those who do not know, Discord is a powerful communication tool that lets teams collaborate over voice, video, screen-sharing, or text. It's also pretty darn popular with gamers.

How Often Do You Need to Clean Your Keyboard?

For many of us, our computer is the central touchpoint of our working lives We spend hours each day typing away as we work, bringing back everything we've touched while grabbing a snack, running to the bathroom, working out at lunch, or taking a break with some coworkers. Everything you touch in a day—it all ends up back on your keyboard. As a result, your keyboard is likely one of the dirtiest things you touch all day. So, just how dirty is your keyboard?

Seven reasons why website uptime monitoring is important for your business

We know from experience that many online businesses and website owners spend a lot of time and money on online marketing and getting conversions. However, sometimes, teams lose sight of one of the most basic of concerns, website uptime. Teams forget the impact of downtime, and they neglect to monitor their website’s uptime. As a result, when a website outage occurs—and it will—the downtime goes unnoticed, but the outage still affects visitors and potential customers.

The art of shipping and monitoring software with speed and confidence

Software teams are under increasing pressure to ship code faster than ever before, but without the right workflow and tools in place, this can introduce unnecessary risk and headache. We wanted to share how to configure deployments, identify issues, and track performance gains using tools and process to get the best results and enable you to ship software with speed and confidence. The tools we will be using in today’s example include Jenkins, Octopus, and Raygun.

How an IT services company reduced service delivery time by 50%

When it comes to IT Services, their whole world revolves around offering technology solutions with support and management. For these companies, it has become important now, more than ever, to modernize their workspaces and make the shift with IT digitization to effectively manage complexities like maintenance, security, scalability and resilience. While digital transformation may sound great in theory, in practice, it presents some unique concerns for businesses.

Guidelines to quarantine your website from security threats

People around the world are struggling as the COVID-19 outbreak threatens the safety and security of so many individuals. These days, we all know how important it is to wear a mask, avoid handshakes, and take proper precautions to keep from getting infected. Unfortunately, coronavirus isn’t the only threat that businesses need to worry about right now. Malware unleashed by a black hat hacker can shatter a business’s reputation in seconds.

Logging in Go: Choosing a System and Using it

Go has built-in features to make it easier for programmers to implement logging. Third parties have also built additional tools to make logging easier. What's the difference between them? Which should you choose? In this article Ayooluwa Isaiah describes both of these and discusses when you'd prefer one over the other.

Loki v1.4.0 released, with query statistics and up to 300x regex optimization

It has been a little over 2 months since 1.3.0 was released. We started prepping for the 1.4.0 release several weeks ago; however, when I was writing this very blog post for the release, we discovered some confusing stats from the new statistics objects (which we’ll talk about in a bit). After sorting that out, we played the usual game of, “Wait, don’t release yet!