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Canonical's managed services achieve MSP Cloud Verify Certification

London, UK – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced the completion of the MSP Cloud Verify Certification (MSPCV) for its support and managed services. The MSPCV certification, further strengthens Canonical’s industry-leading open source offering, reassuring customers in all industries that they can securely consume open source in a regulated fashion that complies with all the industry standards and best practices.

How to Retain Customers on your SaaS Platform: Four Key Techniques

New customer logos may be the lifeblood of top-line revenue growth and the focus of sales and marketing teams. But renewals have emerged in the last few years as a key growth driver for SaaS companies. A recent McKinsey study indicated that existing customers can drive between a third and a half of new revenue growth, even at startups. And we’ve all seen the data that says new customer acquisition costs 5X as much as customer retention.

How to Debug Cloudflare Workers with AppSignal

In this article, you’ll learn how to capture error logs in your Cloudflare Workers application using AppSignal. We’ll build a simple workers project and integrate AppSignal’s code to collect the necessary metrics. We’ll also learn how to utilize AppSignal’s dashboard to analyze and track errors. Let’s get stuck in!

What is Power Apps and It's Business Value?

Microsoft’s Power Apps is a platform that combines innovation, automation and intelligence. Power Apps not only helps businesses to pick up performance improvements and productivity but also enable them to be innovative by developing custom business solutions. In this video, we will explore how #powerapps drive business value.

Overprovisioned and Overspent: Optimize Before You Lift and Shift

Do you know what’s wrong with “lift and shift?” Everything. But why? In this video, SolarWinds Head Geek Leon Adato and Technical Content Manager for Community Kevin M. Sparenberg dig into what goes wrong during on-prem to cloud migration of applications and systems in many organizations and how monitoring can help not only avoid those problems but improve the overall outcome as well.

AWS X-Ray vs Jaeger - key features, differences and alternatives

Both AWS X-Ray and Jaeger are distributed tracing tools used for performance monitoring in a microservices architecture. Jaeger was originally built by teams at Uber and then open-sourced in 2015. On the other hand, AWS X-Ray is a distributed tracing tool provided by AWS specifically focused on distributed tracing for applications using Amazon Cloud Services. Jaeger is a popular open-source tool that graduated as a project from Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

AWS Lambda vs Azure Functions vs Google Cloud Functions

Serverless computing is on the rise, having already earned the mantle of “The Next Big Thing”. For developers, serverless computing means less concern regarding infrastructure when deploying code, as all computing resources are dynamically provisioned by the cloud provider. Pricing is generally on a pay-as-you-use model and is based on resources consumed – which is in line with modern business principles of “on-demand”, flexibility and rapid scaling.