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Flight to Success: Birdie's DevOps Evolution Fueled by Observability Insights

Birdie wanted to uplevel observability to a platform that would provide meaningful insights for application performance and debugging. Ensuring customers can provide seamless and timely care to in-home patients stands as a top priority for Birdie, and the development team takes pride in building and maintaining a high-quality platform distinguished by its reliability and responsiveness.

How Do You Handle Third-Party Dependencies in Your Reliability Planning?

External dependencies and third-party services play a crucial role in powering modern applications. These components bring a wealth of benefits, ranging from access to specialized tools and resources to the ability to offload non-core tasks, allowing development teams to focus on delivering value-added features.

Top 10 Managed Services Providers in the UK - Best MSPs of 2024

Managing cloud migration, cybersecurity, and your IT stack – all of which somehow always needs to be updated – while juggling turning a profit is more than a full-time job. It’s downright impossible without the right team, the right expertise. That’s where managed service providers come in. Managed service providers (MSPs) are third-party companies who are the experts you need.

The Leading Reporting Dashboard Examples

Dashboards provide an enhanced view of your most critical business metrics. With the majority utilizing both real-time and historical data, they enable you to promptly respond to current trends as well as accurately forecast for the future. Also, reporting dashboards excel when compared to static reports, in regards to presenting data and objectives to stakeholders.

Easily monitor your Rocky Linux server using the Linux integration for Grafana Cloud

Rocky Linux is a community-driven, open source operating system that is backed by CIQ, the primary sponsor and support provider. This OS is a powerful alternative for those seeking a downstream, binary-compatible option to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). CIQ supports Rocky Linux as a response to changes in the CentOS project, which is no longer maintained as a stable downstream clone of RHEL.

Balancing Speed to Delivery time in App Development

As devs, we know the age-old question of, “How long do you think it will take?” oh too well. Regardless of experience and position within the development cycle, this inquiry always comes loaded with expectations and complexities, a concept I refer to as Speed to Delivery Time (SDT). To be clear, SDT isn’t just about marking days on a calendar.

What is the Cost of SSO Software? SSO Pricing

Single sign-on (SSO) is an important security function for many business enterprises, especially with the rise of more cloud apps and services. Essentially, an SSO allows a user to log into a device only once with a single set of credentials to gain access to a variety of corporate apps, websites, and data.

Capturing Security and Observability Data From Oracle Cloud

A couple of years ago, I wrote another blog on how Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage can be used as a data lake since it has an Amazon S3-compliant API. Since then, I’ve also fielded several requests to capture logs from OCI Services and send them through Cribl Stream for optimization and routing to multiple destinations. There are two primary methods to achieve this.