Wi-Fi has untangled humanity, quite literally. Those jumbled Ethernet cables with their confusing ports are banished to backstage. Now, all we need is one connection to a Wi-Fi router and voila! Internet. Wi-Fi networks simplify your IT infrastructure. WLAN networks makes an office look less like a scene from The Matrix and more like a creative workspace, but it can bring an array of difficulties as well. Unlike the sturdy Ethernet cable, Wi-Fi connections fluctuate.

Two years ago I wrote a piece in The New Stack about the Future of Ops Careers. Towards the end, I wrote: I described the second category as “operations engineering minus the infrastructure,” dedicated to evaluating and assembling a production stack of third-party platform providers, enabling software engineers to self-serve their services and own their own code in production. I said: That second category I was describing now has a name. We call those teams "platform engineering.".

UC Today, the leading online publication for Unified Communications and Collaboration technology, recently did a deep dive on Martello’s Microsoft-recommended Vantage DX solution for monitoring Microsoft Teams and found out that delivering exceptional user experiences and avoiding a Microsoft Teams outage can be easy with the right solution in place.

MongoDB is a cross-platform NoSQL database that uses JSON-like documents with optional schema to store data. It was designed for high availability, high performance for high-data persistance use cases, and automatic scaling. Of course, all with the right infrastructure in mind. It is usually a good choice for document-oriented use cases when you need quick prototyping or massive scale. With the massive scale comes massive traffic, though.

Exceptions are the outcomes you do not usually expect in your application. But as a developer, expecting the unexpected is essential to capture exceptions and handle them appropriately. Exception handling is not only applicable to web development projects but also to Unity applications. This article brings everything you need to know as a beginner to Unity exception handling, including methods to handle exceptions, when to use them, and how to manage exceptions easier using distributed logging.

The following guest post addresses how to improve your services’s performance with Sentry and other application profilers for Python. Check out this post to learn more about application profiling and Sentry’s upcoming mobile application profiling offering. We’re making intentional investments in performance monitoring to make sure we give you all the context to help you solve what’s urgent faster.

AIOps has been shrouded in mystery since its inception in 2017- offering little guidance beyond the promise of AI/ML-driven insights. To make AIOps less of a mystery, the experts from Forrester Research have tried to help...

Processing, storing, and sending data is at the heart of how we communicate and get business done. This involves implementing various applications, software, and mobile devices that together form an intricate web to process data and information. Programmers will often use message brokers to facilitate this constant flow of information. Message brokers and Pub/Sub messaging systems are instrumental in allowing applications, services, and systems to communicate effectively.

We are happy to announce that we have released a brand-new SCOM Management Pack for monitoring Citrix Desktop as a Service (DaaS). Citrix DaaS is a Citrix Cloud service that allows you to securely deliver virtual apps and desktops from on-premise data centers and public cloud platforms in a hybrid deployment.