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A Tour of 7 Popular Ruby Frameworks in 2020

Ruby may be over 25 years old, but it remains popular in the software community for its focus on programmer happiness. Building software with Ruby often involves leveraging one or more popular frameworks for the purpose of increasing productivity by relying on existing solutions to common problems. Ruby frameworks generally fall into two categories: web-facing frameworks and background job frameworks.

Integrating dynamic SaaS hosted Uptime Monitoring into your customer-served Applications

Imagine you are rolling out your application to multiple customers, they even might use it on premise. Of course you want to know if your application is running fine and the customer is not experiencing any kind of trouble or downtime - surely you would not want to ship this validation in your own system, as that might also be prone to any kind of error at some point. Which is why you decide to go for a third party uptime monitoring solution e.g. Uptime Monitoring.

Citrix Analytics for Performance - Where does it fit in relation to Citrix Performance Monitoring and Management?

I recently published an article on Citrix Performance Analytics (also called Citrix Analytics for Performance), part of the Citrix Analytics service in Citrix Cloud. In this article, i will analyze where Citrix Performance Analytics fits in relative to other Citrix performance monitoring and management tools in the market.

A time machine for your env variables

One of the great things about Lumigo is that it records a lot of context about each Lambda invocation. This includes the invocation event and its return value, as well as the environment variables that were in use at the time. I find this super helpful because it gives me all the relevant information about an invocation in one place. I don’t have to jump between different screens to find the relevant information and then piece the clues together in my head.

Between Two Alerts: Phishing Emails - Less Ocean, More Aquarium

When we discuss Splunk Phantom with customers here at Splunk, we end up talking about phishing pretty frequently. As discussed in a recent blog post, "Phishing Emails — Don’t Get Reeled In!," phishing is a super common issue that almost everyone deals with ad nauseum. It’s also a nuisance to investigate. The good news is that automation excels at dealing with repetitive, mind-numbing workflows like phishing investigations.

Tips for Modern NOCs - Correlating Incidents to the IT Changes that Caused Them

Every NOC engineer will tell you that the first thing they look for in an outage is “what changed?”. And they are right to look. While every organization is unique, Gartner reports that on average about 80% of IT incidents today are caused by changes in infrastructure and/or software.

OnPage Overrides Silent Switch on iOS and Do Not Disturb Mode

Since its inception, OnPage has been dedicated in providing a powerful critical alerting solution. This mission continues in 2020, as OnPage is pleased to introduce its ability to override the silent switch and Do Not Disturb (DND) mode on iOS. The latest advancements ensure that tasked recipients always receive high-priority, OnPage audible alerts, regardless of their current iPhone settings.

Kubernetes GitOps with Azure Arc and Charmed Kubernetes

This week, Canonical announced the integration of Charmed Kubernetes with Microsoft Azure Arc. This integration provides businesses with a centralised place to manage their Kubernetes clusters and deploy their applications at scale, from cloud to the edge. The Azure Arc dashboard enables management and governance of any Kubernetes, across any substrate.