The first product to let you build live, interactive 360° dashboards that give you complete visibility of your cloud-hosted applications. Today is the start of an exciting new chapter at SquaredUp. The biggest release in the history of our company – SquaredUp for Azure – is now live!
IT spends millions of dollars and years of worker-time so their workforces can work anywhere, anytime, on any device, securely. And a huge chunk of that investment is in VDI from Citrix or VMware Horizon, both on-prem and in the cloud. As a result, IT, you’ve delighted your end-users with a super high-performing, super reliable end-user experience, right?
Released in 2009, MariaDB is a popular open-source fork of the MySQL relational database management system. MariaDB is intended as a drop-in replacement for MySQL, so data and table definitions, protocols, structures, and connectors require little to no modification in order to migrate. MariaDB also contains several enhancements, including faster indexes and cache, increased connection thread pools, and support for more storage engines.
We often get questions about optimizing or monitoring Sidekiq. Monitoring is kind of our game, but optimizing Sidekiq’s performance is a different ball game altogether. In reality, optimizing is complex, but let’s start by looking at the seemingly simple answers…
Reinvention is the key to modern IT operations in a DevOps world. Headline after headline after headline tells the same story: Modern IT operations is an exercise in managing complexity. As the IT ecosystem increases in flexibility, scalability, agility, and possibility, the IT operations management workload is becoming increasingly unruly.
Good IT Support is harder to pin down than you’d think but deciding which technology is better than the next is pretty straightforward for most of us. Who wouldn’t pick the latest iPhone or Android device over a flip-phone? Actually, most senior citizens—but to their credit flip-phones never really die, they just regenerate into larger flip-phones. Bad example. Point is we can rate, compare, trial, and study just about every digital technology on the market.
Monitoring systems is critical to any IT operation. For many companies, these systems are a critical business component that can have serious business impact (including expensive downtime) if these systems fail. For this reason, it is essential that you have a good monitoring system in place that you can rely on, one that notifies you early if unforeseen problems occur.
You probably don’t know who Claude Shannon is but you have much to thank him for. He was by all accounts a bona fide genius that dreamed up the underlying concept of digital computing back in 1948—decades before Wozniak, Jobs, and Gates sprung onto the scene.
More frequent releases! We continue to march Loki towards the first GA release, and to help that process we are going to target bi-weekly to weekly releases, depending on changes. - Ed Welch 08/12/2019 My mistake, there was clearly a typo in my previous post, and when I said bi-weekly I clearly meant bi-monthly. ;) The good news, however, is that the project has been very busy and there are some very exciting new features in Loki v0.4.0!
