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10 Essential Monitoring Interview Questions to Prep for in 2020

You might be on the move. You might be breaking into the field. You might be trying to level up with your next gig. You might be ready for a manager’s role. Regardless of the reason, you are wondering what you need to re-study for your job interviews and “homework” assignments. Even with years of experience, every new gig expects you to answer different kinds of DevOps interview questions.

How to Identify Poor Drive Mapping to GPOs is Root Cause of Slow Logons

End users are complaining of slow logons and IT cannot quickly identify root cause. When trying to identify the root cause of a Citrix end-user experience issue, the main display to view all of the Citrix user sessions is the Goliath’s Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops session display.

Go: Idiomatic error handling

Go is an extremely opinionated programming language. import something in a file that’s not used? It won’t compile, and there’s no flag to override. While there are workarounds, the end result remains the same: Go files are never cluttered by unused imports. This is true for all Go code everywhere, making every Go project more accessible. Not all Go opinions are enforced by the compiler.

Patient Record Retention: Tips for Compliance and Protection

With the implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) into practices, patient experience has improved, among other advancements at the point of care. These include better access to patient records and highly efficient care delivery. While these are some significant benefits, some practices experience certain drawbacks too, such as temporary slowdown of processes during EHR transition and high ongoing maintenance costs. One of the most pressing issues include patient record retention.

What Vending-Machines Have to Do With Your Microservices Architecture

Orchestrating and composing multiple services in a distributed architecture is not easy. Before we move along with the great solution offered by vending-machines to our distributed architectures, we need to understand what solutions and values we’re looking for. In a serverless environment, there are at least three desired properties of any distributed services implementation.

Data analytics with Jaeger aka traces tell us more!

I will get straight to the point, Jaeger at the moment only visualizes collected data from instrumented applications. It does not perform any post-processing (except service dependency diagram) or any calculations to derive other interesting metrics or features from traces it collects. This is a pity because traces contain the richest information from all telemetry signals combined!

Cloudsmith Launches World's First Private Dart Repository Service

The promise of Cloudsmith is simple. We ensure development teams have access to the packages they need, when they need them. And we do that through a private, cloud-based repository that can help shield the business from malware, security and licensing concerns related to the use of third party software packages, whilst giving you total control over access to your own packages.

9 Powerful Quotes That Perfectly Capture The Future of Digital Work

It’s impossible to know exactly what lies ahead in the future of digital work but there are a few technology leaders and analysts out there that always seem to stay ahead of the game. These people can often articulate complex changes in enterprise technology and digital work with simple, sharp language. Luckily, we’ve compiled some of the most telling quotes from top digital workplace experts to help companies and leaders better understand what matters most in the future of work.

Top 6 Website Builders for Beginners

In 2020, a website is essential for just about everyone. Whether you run a small business, are a blogger, a professional like a graphic designer or a freelance writer, or an entrepreneur, a website is critical for being able to do what you do. Luckily, these days it is also extremely easy to create a website. Thanks to the large number of website builders now available, you no longer need to hire a web developer, and instead can build your own website from scratch.

How to forward alerts to Microsoft Teams

One of our customers came to us asking for a way to easily log tickets created during the night shifts in order to allow team members to be up to date on any nightly occurrences even when the On-Call staff hadn’t been at the office yet. Our initial suggestion was to just send a broadcast message to the team members inboxes but due to concerns that such a setup would just add clutter we investigated alternate ways of providing this functionality.