Escalation policies are essential for making sure that incidents are quickly addressed and resolved. They provide a systematic approach to automate alerts, guaranteeing that no incident goes unnoticed. Let’s get you started, shall we? An escalation policy is a way to automate alerts and assure that incidents are never missed. The first point of contact for an incident is through an alert that is sent according to the escalation policy.

Patch Management and Vulnerability Management are two key practices that keep organizations safe. Used effectively, they can detect vulnerabilities, patch them efficiently and safely, and help organizations meet their Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) requirements. Because both practices work together to build up an organization’s IT security strategy, they are often incorrectly used interchangeably.

A few days ago a memo from logistics company Flexport leaked to the media announcing significant layoffs. Now, a tech company doing layoffs in 2023 is hardly notable. A 20% RIF here and there is almost expected. What is notable is the reason for the layoffs: Flexport is trying to achieve profitability.

A spicy article hit my inbox the other day. It came with a bold claim — “API testing is better than UI testing”. Absolutes like “A is better than B” rarely hold in the software world. “It depends” is the answer to most tech questions for a reason. Let’s compare API and UI testing and discuss why one isn’t better than the other. The frenemies are “just different”, and always will be. And that’s a good thing.

At Cribl, we have the privilege of helping our customers achieve their strategic data goals by giving them visibility and control over all of their observability data. The reality today is that data is commonly stored across many places. Whether intentional (such as using Cribl Stream to create a security data lake) or unintentional (because of silos and tool sprawl), organizations desire the ability to access and analyze all of this information at any time.

I’m delighted to announce that, for the fourth consecutive year, ServiceNow has been recognized as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms. We believe this recognition reflects our continued commitment to helping our customers eliminate the skills gap for app creation with low-code tooling.

Getting engineers to take action to optimize spending can feel like an eternal struggle for many cloud-based companies. In fact, this particular issue is consistently considered to be one of the number-one cost challenges modern companies face. Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be this way. Below are a few creative ways companies have gamified FinOps practices to make the learning process more interesting and rewarding for engineers.

Live debugging refers to debugging software while running in production without causing any downtime. It has gained popularity in modern software development practices, which drives many critical systems across businesses and industries. In the context of always-on, cloud-native applications, unearthing severe bugs and fixing them in real time is only possible through live debugging. Therefore, live debugging becomes an integral part of any developer’s skill set.

Infrastructure as Code, or IaC, is the practice of automatically provisioning and configuring infrastructure using code and scripts. IaC allows developers to automate the creation of environments to generate infrastructure components rather than setting up the necessary systems and devices manually.

WordPress is the content management system that has found its place in the hearts of innumerable web developers and users around the world. You might be shocked to learn that almost 45% of all websites on the Internet are grounded on WordPress. The question is, “How do users monitor their WordPress website and check their critical metrics?” Any site needs to be monitored these days. There are countless online services that offer tools for external website monitoring.