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How GoCenter Connects Go Modules Authors With Consumers

There’s no longer any doubt, Go modules are an accepted part of Golang. The over 300,000 versioned Go modules in JFrog GoCenter shows how they have been embraced for package management by the Go community. With Go modules now enabled by default in Golang 1.13, the number of publicly available modules will grow even more rapidly — and some of them may be contributed by you. But once you share a Go module project with the community, what happens to it? Does it get used?

What is File Transfer Protocol (FTP)?

Our day to day is a constant investigation. When you were little, very small, you discovered the different names of the colors or the taste of the fruits; then, the pain of acne and your favorite rock bands; and later on, I don’t know, more complex things like the Inland Revenue and the File Transfer Protocol.

PagerDuty Summit Rocked

We had an excellent time at PagerDuty Summit 2019. The folks we met at the booth and in the hallway track felt particularly kindred to Team Honeybee: we’ve all been on-call, and we all want it to be better. The main themes of the conference revolved around best practices and learnings for finding issues faster, knowing exactly what to do in an incident, enabling on-call to know how to prioritize an alert, and what our community can do to improve on-call life.

OnPage Mentioned in Two 2019 Gartner Hype Cycle Reports

Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Business Continuity and IT Performance Analysis are trusted reports, identifying solutions that enhance and solidify an organization’s business continuity. The OnPage team is pleased to announce that we’ve been included in two of Gartner’s Hype Cycle reports, listing OnPage’s incident alert management solution as a trusted tool for today’s support teams.

Continuum Navigate East 2019: 4 Cybersecurity Takeaways

At the beginning of October, conveniently dubbed National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the Auvik team descended on the city of Pittsburgh to attend Continuum Navigate East 2019. With recent MSP-targeted ransomware attacks fresh in the minds of all attendees, cybersecurity took the event by storm—from keynotes to casual conversations, there was no escaping it. What was everyone saying? We put together a list of four key takeaways from the event to fill you in.

5 Tips for Preventing Ransomware Attacks

You don't need to be a cybersecurity expert to know that ransomware attacks have become one of today's greatest IT security threats. From WannaCry to the attack against the city of Atlanta, major ransomware exploits have become so commonplace in the last few years that they may seem impossible to avoid. Fortunately, preventing ransomware is far from impossible. Let's take a look at a few strategies you can put in place to mitigate your risk of becoming part of the next ransomware statistic.

How To Guarantee Your Windows 10 Updates Are Actually Working

Skip ahead to see how we solve a typical Windows 10 update problem (Windows Defender) It hasn’t been the easiest of weeks for Windows 10 users and support staff. And if we’re being honest, the previous months haven’t been all sunshine and rainbows either. For many, Patch Tuesday is starting to look less like a welcomed milestone for Windows 10 updates and fixes, and more like a doomsday for new malware and computing defects.

Affiliate Websites and Merchants, Are You Ready for Black Friday 2019?

What is Black Friday? The name originated in the US and it was given to the shopping day after Thanksgiving Day, which is the fourth Thursday in November with many Americans on holiday the following day. As most people are off work on the Friday following Thanksgiving, shops started cutting prices to entice customers just for one day and get the Christmas shopping season underway.

Stackery Welcomes Tim Wagner, Inventor of AWS Lambda, to Board of Directors

In new and quickly-expanding fields like serverless, long-standing experts are few and far between. I am excited to welcome Tim Wagner, the original leader of the serverless movement, to the Stackery Board of Directors. Tim spent six years at Amazon Web Services as the General Manager of AWS Lambda, where he oversaw the team that built the success of serverless as a platform. In many ways, we have them to thank for creating the environment that supports Stackery and the serverless ecosystem.

Monitor Vertica analytics platform with Datadog

Vertica is a platform that uses machine learning capabilities to help you analyze large amounts of data. Vertica provides high availability and parallel processing by replicating data onto multiple nodes in a cluster, and uses a column-based data store for efficient querying. You can deploy Vertica in the cloud, on premise, or as a hybrid of the two.