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6 Common Pitfalls of AWS Lambda with Kinesis Trigger

This article was written for the Dashbird blog by Maciej Radzikowski, who builds serverless AWS solutions and shares his knowledge on BetterDev.blog. Kinesis Data Streams are the solution for real-time streaming and analytics at scale. As we learned last November, AWS themselves use it internally to keep, well, AWS working. Kinesis works very well with AWS Lambda.

Four things to consider when evaluating incident management platforms

When you’re feeling the stress and pain around incidents, making the decision to find an incident management tool is a no-brainer. But how do you choose the one that will work for you, your team, and your business? You might be asking yourself: Where do I start? What do I need to know? What questions do I ask? What are the options? How can I be sure we’re choosing the right tool?

Interlink recognized as a Representative Vendor in Gartner Market Guide for AIOps Platforms 2021

Gartner Market Guide for AIOps Platforms, Pankaj Prasad, Padraig Byrne, Josh Chessman, April 6, 2021 Gartner Market Guides are used extensively by end-users building out their vendor shortlists for I&O leaders focused on Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Management initiatives.

5 Challenges in Chatbot Optimization and Maintenance

Chatbots can be like double-edged swords. It can either boost your customer service or turn customers away. Hence, you must make sure that you research and prepare properly before committing to it. This way, you will know how to optimize and maintain your chatbots to ensure its effectiveness. There are many chatbot benefits for business. In fact, 78% of businesses have started integrating such technology into their customer service in the past months.

No going back: COVID-19 is catalyst for digital transformation

As the world begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more business leaders are focused on preparing for future crises. This is driving a workflow revolution as companies strive to stay both agile and resilient. Against that backdrop, ServiceNow Chief Innovation Officer Dave Wright facilitated a panel of experts from the public sector, healthcare, and technology industries.

Sysdig: Leveraging Sysdig Secure for AWS Cloud

In a cloud native environment, the security & compliance posture of your application is dependent largely upon the security of your containers, but not exclusively - it also depends upon the infrastructure upon which it runs. Join our hands-on AWS and Sysdig DevDay "Leveraging Sysdig Secure for AWS Cloud." In this workshop, you will learn how Sysdig Secure for cloud gives you a unified Cloud Security Platform that provides you with a complete suite for Asset Discovery, Cloud Security Posture Management and Compliance, Vulnerability Scanning and Threat Detection for all your cloud accounts.

Elastic: Operationalizing machine learning for SIEM

Unsupervised machine learning (ML) is a core capability for most security operations teams looking to implement an advanced threat detection or insider threat program. However, the deployment of ML can present adoption challenges for security teams. Unless they have in-house data scientists to develop and tune threat models and skilled threat hunters to investigate alerts and manually follow up on interpreting anomalous behaviors, teams may find themselves struggling to gain useful insights and operational value out of ML tools.

Elastic: Infrastructure monitoring with the Elastic Stack

Ready to get started on your observability journey? We'll go over the basics of using the Elastic Stack for your infrastructure and system metrics. We'll also show how combining your infrastructure metrics with your logs and application traces can benefit you and your business. Join us to see how Elastic Observability can help you get to the bottom of issues faster and reduce your MTTD/R.

Automate your IT routine with OpManager's Workflow feature

Performing day-to-day IT tasks can be demanding—not because all tasks are challenging to carryout, but because of the repetitive nature of many tasks. A high number of mundane, repetitive tasks impacts productivity. Over time, these repetitive, no-brainer tasks can even eat away so much valuable time that it effectively halts your organization’s growth.

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Geek Pride Day: SolarWinds Head Geeks reflect on what it means to be a geek

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a geek as a person who is boring, wears clothes that are not fashionable, doesn't know how to behave in social situations. Talk about negative stereotyping! Being a geek is about so much more than (a lack of) fashion, being dull, and an alleged social ineptitude. Being a geek is something inherent, and as some of our Head Geeks will let you know, is saved for those who are truly passionate about the nichest of hobbies and interests.