Oh Dear! is a new SaaS application for website monitoring with multi-location uptime monitoring, mixed content detection, and SSL certificate and transparency reporting, by Freek Van der Herten and Mattias Geniar. The application is built on top of Laravel Spark.

Over the past couple of weeks we've been optimising the Downtime Monkey website to reduce page load time. We've had some excellent results: in the best case scenario we cut page load time by 58% and even in the worst case, the page load was still 9% faster. All of the changes that were made are straightforward and we've provided in-depth details of the optimisations so that you can apply them to your own website.

We published small update, where you can now enable detailed certificate validation which checks for name mismatch, chain validation errors and other common issues.

On January 3, 2018, the Meltdown and Spectre CPU architecture flaws were announced to the world. Due to early leaks, the announcement was made roughly a week earlier than planned. These bugs are easily the largest vulnerabilities announced in the last decade and require a complete reassessment of microprocessor architectures, and how software and hardware interact.

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Back in August we released source map upload via a new API for minified JavaScript. Now we are happy to announce the release of our Honeybadger Weback Plugin that uploads the source map produced when minifying JavaScript to our API.

When a critical security flaw affecting hardware is identified -- such as the recently publicized chip vulnerabilities (Meltdown, Spectre) -- your cloud provider takes steps to implement the necessary patch(es) to protect its infrastructure. Updates performed by your cloud provider may require scheduled reboots for your cloud resources. For example, the security patch for Intel processors requires a machine reboot since the patch includes an update to the hypervisor kernel.

GroundWork Open Source founder, Thomas Stocking, recently lended his expertise to APMdigest’s 2018 Application Performance Management Predictions, an insightful article about how APM and related technologies will impact business in 2018, specifically in the areas of ITOA and data.

At StatusCake we’ve got a great range of integrations for alerting, today we want to take you through some of the advantages of using OpsGenie which differs from some of our other integrations in that it has several extra layers of setup beyond what can be configured in the StatusCake app.