History has a tendency to repeat itself. This is because bad habits and anti-patterns are hard to break. And this remains the case with the latest sought-after engineering unicorn––the “Kubernetes expert”. These days, there is a veritable gold rush to hire the best and brightest Kubernetes wizards. Like all forms of expertise––this gold is rare, and as a result––is also costly. But this isn’t a new phenomenon in the technology world.

With the digital world changing faster than ever, businesses are rushing to keep up, especially when it comes to supporting remote work. Interestingly, a report from 2023 highlighted that over 82% of businesses now support some form of remote work, underscoring the critical role of effective RMM solutions today. This makes choosing the right remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools more important than ever.

Keeping an eye on memory usage is a must-do for system admins who want their Linux systems running at peak performance. When you're managing one server or a whole fleet, watching memory use can help you spot issues before they cause trouble for your apps or services. Linux has command-line tools and graphical ways to check memory usage, each giving you a different level of info and output style.

On December 31, 2008, all the Microsoft Zunes around the world stopped working. The development team hadn’t properly accounted for the Leap Year, and when the year changed over, everything broke. On February 29, 2024, card payments in a Swedish grocery chain went down, payment terminals in New Zealand gas stations crashed, and an EA Sports racing game was rendered unplayable for the day.

You’re probably familiar with the phrase, “software is eating the world.” In the last couple of decades, the importance and pervasiveness of technology in our society and our lives reached levels past generations would consider the realm of science-fiction. You probably have in your pocket, right now, a computer way more powerful than the one in Apollo 11.

As Coralogix is a full-stack observability platform with log analytics, RUM, APM, SIEM and more, it’s hard to really compare it to Sentry’s very limited offering of error tracking and some other real user monitoring functionality. Sentry is also insanely expensive in comparison to Coralogix. Nonetheless, we shall attempt to assess how Sentry’s RUM offering stacks up.

Since containers revolutionized resources utilization and their cost by significantly increasing VM densities, understanding Azure Container Instance Pricing is key for making informed decisions about your containerized apps. ACI is the serverless option within Azure, to provision additional compute for demanding and highly scalable workloads. Knowing the ACI pricing, you can optimize costs while efficiently deploying your containers in a managed service that will optimize your operations.

This blog post explores Cribl.Cloud‘s approach to Identity Governance (IG), a crucial strategy for securing access to critical systems and data. Learn how Cribl.Cloud leverages IG to ensure security, compliance, efficiency, and customer trust, while also tackling the challenges of managing custom SaaS APIs within an IG framework.

Marketing plays a pivotal role in helping to drive MSP growth and success. Yet, this is something that many MSPs can struggle with and too often find themselves grappling with common marketing mistakes that can hinder their ability to attract and retain clients. From overlooking the importance of a cohesive brand identity to neglecting the power of data-driven decision-making, these are just some of the things that can prove detrimental to an MSP’s bottom line.

Not that long ago, in a galaxy that isn’t remotely far away, a disturbance in the open source world was felt with wide-ranging reverberations. Imagine waking up one morning to find out that your beloved open source tool, which lies at the heart of your system, is being relicensed. What does it mean? Can you still use it as before? Could the new license be infectious and require you to open source your own business logic? This doom’s day nightmare scenario isn’t hypothetical.