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5 Tips to Avoid Deadlocks in Amazon RDS Part 1

Last week, I wrote A Beginner’s Guide to Deadlocks in Amazon RDS. This week, I’d like to lay out my 10 years of experience about how to avoid deadlocks altogether. Often times, this will be out of the hands of operations people, but you can still move for dev changes based on issues in production. The more knowledgeable you are about deadlocks in general, the more they will lean on you as a resource with wisdom, not a totalitarian barking rules.

5 Steps to Prepare Your Web Infrastructure for 2019

At least 10 major data breaches occurred in 2018 including Facebook, Google Plus, WordPress, and healthcare sectors. The surge in breaches proves we need to do a better job detecting foul play. User data and our own IP are crucial assets to safeguard in this environment. We also observed major downtime incidents from companies like Facebook and Microsoft.

Dear admins: this one's for you

The end of the year is typically a time to reflect on what we’ve accomplished in the past twelve months and set goals for the new year. If you’re part of an IT team, you’ve probably accomplished a lot, from managing software upgrades to dealing with major incidents and service outages. But how many times this year have people in your company stopped to say thank you?

Running LogicMonitor API Scripts in AWS Lambda

Sometimes it's necessary to run a maintenance API script in your LogicMonitor portal. For example, I move decommissioned devices into a specific folder because I no longer want to receive any alerts on these devices. An API script helps automate the process by running once a day to disable alerts on any new devices added to this folder.

Monitoring errors in Xamarin apps

Xamarin is based on Mono, the open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Standard. It allows us to create apps that easily run in multiple devices like phones and smart watches. It solves the difficulties many developers face when they’re developing cross-platform apps like different coding languages and UI paradigms. With Xamarin, you can use C# as a single language for iOS, Android, and Universal Windows apps.