We’re excited to announce that ChangeTower users can now monitor specific sub-sections of web pages with our new partial-page monitoring tools and visual change detection engine. Our users will now be able to utilize the full power of the ChangeTower engine to monitor specific sub-sections of web pages for a user-selectable degree of change.

There is a tremendous administrative burden places on businesses that rely on responding to (and winning!) RFPs for new business. Not only do you have to go through the painful process of filling out long applications and endure long wait times, it’s also extremely hard to stay on top of if / when new business is put out to bid.

Over the past several weeks, the security of AWS S3 buckets have come under increasing scrutiny. While the S3 service itself has not suffered any known breaches, customer misconfigurations have created some big headaches for some equally big companies.

At CloudSploit, one of our biggest satisfactions is learning more about how our users actually use our product. While we can look at charts, graphs, and usage statistics, nothing beats an actual walkthrough by an enthusiastic user who has incorporated CloudSploit into his or her company’s architecture.

The concept of “the cloud” is an amazingly powerful and novel solution for many providers and users. The idea of shifting from physical infrastructure to the digital space is an attractive one, especially when consideration is given to the impact of such a migration in terms of economy, ease of access, and ease of use. Due to this alluring nature, many organizations have rushed to adopt cloud-based solutions in recent years, and have garnered a large amount of success.

Built specifically for Laravel, Understand.io is a very powerful tool used by hundreds of developers to stay on top of their application’s health. In addition to performing live search and analysis on your log data, you can also set up custom alerts. Alerts can be used to automatically send a variety of notifications via email, Slack or a webhook when something important takes place in your application.

We're excited to announce that Dead Man's Snitch is now easier to use with your entire team. Gone are the days of sharing a single login or using a shared mailing list for alerts. Now, everyone on your team can have their own login and personalized alert settings. Using Slack or PagerDuty and don't need emails? You can now opt out of email alerts as well.

With more and more services using SSL keeping track of the certificates in use across a global infrastructure can be challenging. The inventory reporting features in CFEngine Enterprise can be useful in identifying services using SSL as well as when their certificates will expire.

Creatives and businesses depend on programmers to fulfil their visions. The problem? Programmers are scarce. There are 230,000 unfilled jobs for programmers in the U.S. alone, and more than 90 percent of the gap is outside Silicon Valley. And, when the vast majority of the world’s great software talent resides in the halls of tech juggernauts — like Google, Amazon and Facebook — giving them an embarrassment of riches, the rest of the world is left behind.

In this article I will look at the current hosting setup of healthchecks.io, how it has evolved during the past two years, and what challenges I faced running this small but lively service.