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Observability Across the Development Lifecycle: A Convo with Andre Boutet of OneSpan

At OpenObservability, we had the pleasure to sit down with Andre Boutet, the Senior Director of Cloud Operations and Services for OneSpan. Andre had a conversation with our CTO, Jonah Kowall, around what observability means to his team and his organization. Teaser: It’s not just about ensuring uptime and availability for external systems. It’s a philosophy with a foundation on supporting the entire development lifecycle.

How to Monitor Azure Web App EndPoint via Microsoft and 3rd Party Technologies

The Azure portal has the capability for endpoint monitoring by continuously pinging the website and checking its status from different parts of the world. This helps to ensure the high availability of the applications that are resilient to endpoint failure and Azure regions failures. Endpoint monitoring facilitates to keep the Web App become up in all the time and notify in case of any failures. Azure Web is the most widely used Azure service that helps to host your web applications in Azure.

The 2020 SaaS Startup <$100 Essential Toolkit

I’ve recently co-founded a startup, and after working so long in more mature enterprises with diverse toolchains, it was actually massively educational to return to first steps and figure out what our critical needs were, balanced with essentially zero budget. As we’ve grown and raised money, we’ve graduated in some areas to other tools, but I wanted to share what we felt were the absolute can’t-live-without-tools for a team building SaaS software.

The Mattermost codebase is preserved on ice for the next 1,000 years

A lot will happen over the next 1,000 years, and the codebase for the Mattermost open source project will be along for the entire ride. On July 8, GitHub successfully deposited 21 terabytes of open source repository data in the Arctic World Archive, a (very) long-term storage facility located on the Svalbard archipelago in Norway near the North Pole.

Securing Your Kubernetes Journey with ChartCenter

Adopting cloud native technologies like Kubernetes and Helm means your company’s operations can sail swiftly across the globe’s oceans to reach teams and customers. But there are dangers in the deep. With many components in Kubernetes, securing every dimension can be quite challenging and require a bit of learning curve. Let’s identify some important best practices that can help you to steer straight.

Ivanti Neurons: Beyond Self Service, Beyond Omnichannel to Self-Servicing

I’m thrilled that we’ve finally announced the availability of the new Ivanti Neurons platform! It’s been a long journey involving huge efforts by all parts of the Ivanti organization over recent years to get to this point. There is a powerful and close relationship between the Ivanti Neurons platform and Ivanti’s Enterprise Service Management and IT Service Manager capabilities.

Revealing the Secrets of Kubernetes Costs: You Can Now Perform a Kubernetes Cost Analysis with CloudZero

I was speaking with a VP of Engineering friend at last year’s KubeCon about how to pitch Kubernetes to the C-Suite. The benefits for innovation were clear - containerized microservices empowered her small teams to deliver more value, more rapidly. As is often the case with Boardroom discussions, though, the question of cost was always next. Sure, they want you to innovate - as long as it’s within the constraints of a budget! But cost discussions around Kubernetes can be difficult.

Stabilizing Marathon: Part III

So far we covered team culture which amplifies our code culture and design. It was kind of abstract so far and you’ll be forgiven if you skipped right a way to this part. I will cover our test and release pipeline, the thing that probably has had the biggest impact on Marathon’s stability. The pipeline enabled us to discover issues before our users did. I will first give an overview of the pipeline stages and dive deep into the Loop. You will soon see what I meant by that.

Simple trap monitoring thanks to Pandora FMS SNMP alerts

The SNMP world is becoming more and more important within the monitoring environment, as companies need to find software that has specialized tools for trap monitoring. If you are not familiar with the term SNMP, take a look here. In this article, we will focus on Pandora FMS SNMP alerts, on how they work and how you can benefit from them.

Building a Python web application with Elastic App Search

This post is a brief summary of a presentation I gave recently where I deploy Elastic App Search, show off the ease of setup, data indexing, and relevance tuning, and take look at a few of the many refined APIs. It’s also written up in a codelab with step-by-step instructions for building a movies search engine app using Python Flask. The app will work on desktop or mobile and is a fast, simple, and reliable way to query the information.