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Are you writing a social media marketing paper? Maybe you are a marketer wondering how to leverage hashtags to grow your brand? Is so, social media is now integral in digital marketing. If you want to grow your brand online, you have to build a presence where your target market is. There are about 3.4 billion people on social media, making this a top catchment area for your customers.

Serverless can bring opportunities by making DevOps more accessible to folks new to the industry. It can also bring opportunities to folks already in the industry that want to spend more time focusing on adding business value. But many technologists, seasoned or otherwise, hear a lot about serverless but don’t always know how to get started.

In the first article in our new series, Yan Cui highlights the key insights from the Amazon Builders’ Library article, Timeouts, retries and backoff with jitter, by AWS Senior Principal Engineer Marc Brooker.

In a world where the applications we run are constantly changing, the number of monitored metrics and events is skyrocketing, and responsibility for system components is fragmented across teams, it becomes increasingly difficult to pinpoint possible root causes of an issue in a timely manner. To address this challenge, we’re introducing Metric Correlations, which automatically finds candidates for the causes of an issue by searching your system for correlated metrics.

Data protection is an essential part of the Uptrends process. When it comes time to remove your data from our retired hard drives and servers, we do it right. We go to great lengths to make sure your data is never accessible to hackers or anyone else for that matter by turning it into a pile of confetti. We stand closely by and watch while our old hardware gets ground into little bitty bits.

Earlier this month, security researchers at Promon, a Norwegian firm that specializes in in-app security, uncovered a unique vulnerability in Android devices that allows malicious apps to masquerade as legitimate apps and prompt for intrusive permissions that allow them to: Listen to the user through the microphone, Take photos using the camera, and a lot more.

Forrester has recognized ManageEngine as a contender in the Enterprise Service Management (ESM) space in its latest Forrester Wave: Enterprise Service Management, Q4 2019 report. The report covered twenty-three criteria and recognized fifteen providers in the ESM space.

It sucks to be on-call when processes are not well defined and streamlined. Especially around the holidays. You really don't want to hear your phone repeatedly going off right when you're sitting for Christmas dinner with your loved ones or getting to unwrapping the good presents (the ones with the sparkly wrapping paper :P). Your on-call team’s stress levels reflects the health of your system, the cleanliness of your code and the culture of your organization.