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5 Tips to Avoid Deadlocks in Amazon RDS Part 1

Last week, I wrote A Beginner’s Guide to Deadlocks in Amazon RDS. This week, I’d like to lay out my 10 years of experience about how to avoid deadlocks altogether. Often times, this will be out of the hands of operations people, but you can still move for dev changes based on issues in production. The more knowledgeable you are about deadlocks in general, the more they will lean on you as a resource with wisdom, not a totalitarian barking rules.

5 Steps to Prepare Your Web Infrastructure for 2019

At least 10 major data breaches occurred in 2018 including Facebook, Google Plus, WordPress, and healthcare sectors. The surge in breaches proves we need to do a better job detecting foul play. User data and our own IP are crucial assets to safeguard in this environment. We also observed major downtime incidents from companies like Facebook and Microsoft.

Channel 4 Uses Sumo Logic to Bring Seamless On-Demand TV Experiences to Europe

Learn how Channel 4, one of the U.K.'s largest broadcasters uses Sumo Logic to support DevOps modernization initiatives across their full app stack and cloud infrastructure to give European consumers the best on-demand viewing experiences.

Get to Know Jira Ops and QA Combined

Jira Ops is a unified incident command center to give IT Ops and DevOps teams a single place for incident response coordination. This video walks you through a full Jira Ops demo, including how to use Jira Ops with your team. And how to manage a full incident workflow, from first alert to resolution and postmortem.

Dear admins: this one's for you

The end of the year is typically a time to reflect on what we’ve accomplished in the past twelve months and set goals for the new year. If you’re part of an IT team, you’ve probably accomplished a lot, from managing software upgrades to dealing with major incidents and service outages. But how many times this year have people in your company stopped to say thank you?

Running LogicMonitor API Scripts in AWS Lambda

Sometimes it's necessary to run a maintenance API script in your LogicMonitor portal. For example, I move decommissioned devices into a specific folder because I no longer want to receive any alerts on these devices. An API script helps automate the process by running once a day to disable alerts on any new devices added to this folder.