One thing we’ve always known: there’s no such thing as 100% uptime for any website. Too many variables are at play to keep a site from staying up all the time. From traffic surges to hardware failures and everything in between, keeping sites up and running is a full-time job for SREs and IT pros. Here at Uptime.com, we track major downtime all year long to provide websites of all sizes with lessons in how to catch downtime and resolve incidents quickly.

As Chief Data Scientist here at StackState I’ve got a big interest in less likely to happen occurrences in data. These events are called anomalies. Every company with a considerable IT environment should be able to detect, solve and also prevent anomalies. Because anomalies can have a big effect on your day to day business.

How critical are open source applications for modern application and infrastructure modernization? Red Hat’s The State of Enterprise Open Source report found that more than two-thirds of IT leaders believe that open source software has a very important role to play in the enterprise and 59% of respondents expect to increase their use of open source in the next 12 months.

Are you writing a social media marketing paper? Maybe you are a marketer wondering how to leverage hashtags to grow your brand? Is so, social media is now integral in digital marketing. If you want to grow your brand online, you have to build a presence where your target market is. There are about 3.4 billion people on social media, making this a top catchment area for your customers.

In the first article in our new series, Yan Cui highlights the key insights from the Amazon Builders’ Library article, Timeouts, retries and backoff with jitter, by AWS Senior Principal Engineer Marc Brooker.

In a world where the applications we run are constantly changing, the number of monitored metrics and events is skyrocketing, and responsibility for system components is fragmented across teams, it becomes increasingly difficult to pinpoint possible root causes of an issue in a timely manner. To address this challenge, we’re introducing Metric Correlations, which automatically finds candidates for the causes of an issue by searching your system for correlated metrics.

Data protection is an essential part of the Uptrends process. When it comes time to remove your data from our retired hard drives and servers, we do it right. We go to great lengths to make sure your data is never accessible to hackers or anyone else for that matter by turning it into a pile of confetti. We stand closely by and watch while our old hardware gets ground into little bitty bits.

GroundWork Monitor 8 is a new version of a mature product, GroundWork Monitor Enterprise. As such, a lot of what is inside of this version will be familiar to users of prior versions. For example, we are still using the same bundled GPL Nagios™ and GroundWork Distributed Monitoring Agent (GDMA), and we are still including NeDi and Cloud Hub as data feeds. Then again, much is very new. We have completely re-worked the status screens and made them much more responsive.

The digital workplace of the future is right around the corner and many enterprise tech leaders are probably wondering: How can I be prepared for the changes that lie ahead? Luckily, we’ve gathered together some of the brightest minds in the game to deliver their predictions. These experts range from technology leaders and analysts that have devoted their careers to pushing the limits of the digital workplace.