As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of companies (52%) say application development is a high priority initiative at their organization. But teams focused on building or improving apps face a number of bottlenecks — the three biggest of which are people, processes, and technology. Puppet and Pulse surveyed 200 IT executives to discover how modern technologies and processes are helping app development teams overcome common roadblocks and adapt quickly to the changing economy.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring has evolved beyond imagination over the last decade and continues to, courtesy of new technology. It’s not focused on IT elements anymore, as Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) is becoming more business-centric. That also gives rise to challenges for IT leaders who need to adapt at a quick pace. It’s not news that infrastructure monitoring is extremely important for the health of any enterprise.

Optimizing SQL queries is always fun—except when it isn’t. If you’re a MySQL veteran and have read the title, you already know where this is heading 😉. In that case, allow me to regale the uninitiated reader. This is the story of an (apparently) smart optimization to a SQL query that backfired spectacularly—and how we finally fixed it. It started off with a customer noticing that a SQL query was running slowly in their environment.

If you’re using the JFrog DevOps Platform to manage your software artifacts, then there’s a good chance that one of the clients you’re already using is JFrog CLI. JFrog CLI is a robust tool, which enhances and extends the capabilities of the JFrog Platform, by connecting it to your build and automation agents.

With the development of Icinga DB we not only rebuilt the core of how Icinga stores and reads monitoring data. With a complete rebuild of the monitoring module we took the chance and refined most aspects of the user interface as well. One aspect that got attention is the display of downtimes, using their time based nature and putting the resulting data into context and visualizing it. Here are some of the details. Icinga DB Web Downtime List.

The financial services sector in Australia has undergone seismic change recently with the rise of neo disruptors and a cashless society driven by the pandemic. Australia is quickly becoming one of the more mature markets to embrace digital transformation, with the federal government announcing it has committed $800 million to a digital infrastructure upgrade. As we move closer to 2021, the financial services sector will continue to see accelerated change and a greater reliance on digital technology.

What are logs? In computing, when generally speaking of “log”, we refer to information belonging to a more or less low level reported by the operating system or a specific application that helps identify what is being done, including errors, problems or minor warnings, and when that happens, it indicates the date and time. In some cases, the source, the user, the IP address and other interesting fields from the point of view of what has happened can be identified.

The global pandemic has fueled a rapid digital transformation — and led to permanent shifts in cybersecurity. In a recent joint webinar with Bryan McAninch, senior solutions engineer at Splunk, and guest speaker Chris Kissel from IDC, "Sp(e)lunking Security with MITRE ATT&CK® featuring IDC Research," they shared seven overarching trends in cybersecurity for 2021. One notable, but foundational, trend mentioned was the need to understand risk.

If your e-commerce website is down< due to a Black Friday major outage/b>, are you prepared to handle it? Customers demand exceptional digital retail experiences on Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and throughout the holidays. If your company can manage issues that can cause an e-commerce outage, it can limit their impact now and in the future. Ultimately, we want to help your team handle major incidents.