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Event Ticket Sales: Receive Alerts the Moment Tickets Go on Sale

Being among the first to be notified when tickets go on sale online for events with high demand is paramount if you hope to secure tickets. Given the lucrative Secondary Market that’s emerged for event tickets (especially for concerts and sporting events), it’s become increasing difficult to acquire tickets for these popular events.

Pull, don't push: architectures for monitoring and configuration in a microservices era

This year at Sensu Summit, Fletcher Nichol and I gave a talk on systems architecture entitled Pull, don’t push: Architectures for monitoring and configuration in a microservices era. In this post, I’d like to reiterate and expand on some of the concepts in that presentation and make some more concrete recommendations for systems design in an era of complex distributed systems.

Eating dog food can help you be a better leader

Eating your own dog food is a concept also referred to as dogfooding. This is when a company uses its own product which was made famous by Google and Microsoft who employ the tactic to test their products in real-world usage. Dogfooding can act as quality control, and can also be a kind of testimonial advertising. For leaders, it’s a way to truly understand what you have, help you set your future direction and understand the challenges your team face on a day to day basis.

Communicate During Events with Opsgenie's New Email Templates

Emails are one of the most popular notification methods of Opsgenie when reaching out to your users. Now, you can create Email Templates which represent your company’s style and streamline communication processes! Email Templates are available for the emails sent out for Mass Notifications and Stakeholder Notifications, and you can customize of the content of the emails depending on your needs.

How Customers Save Time and Money with Mattermost

First, an introduction. My name is Matt Yonkovit. In September, I joined Mattermost as the head of Customer Success. For the last 13 years, I’ve helped customers succeed using open source software. My goal at Mattermost is to build out a world-class support and success program that enables our customers and community to use Mattermost to revolutionize their business processes and workflow.

EKS vs. KOPS

In the past, applications would be deployed by installation on a host, using the operating system package manager. This was a heavy solution with tremendous reliance on the operating system package manager and increased complexity with libraries, configuration, executables and so on all interconnected. Then came containers. Containers are small and fast, and are isolated from each other and from the host.