One of the most impressive books on DevOps, “The DevOps Handbook”, emphasis three fundamental principles underpinning DevOps: systems thinking, amplify feedback loops, and continual experimentation & learning. Amplifying feedback loops is described as creating the right to left feedback loops, which helps corrections to be made continually, by Gene Kim in his blog post. But, let’s start with why we should do this in the first place.

Automate Backups and Stay Insured Against Any Disaster, Security Mishap on Windows Servers.

When New Relic launched ten years ago, web applications had a tendency to fail hard and in more obvious ways. Today, it's easier to build resilient apps, but they fail in more complex, unique, and subtle ways. These issues are time-consuming to track down. While several niche New Relic alternatives have appeared, they've focused on a lighter feature set versus solving these increasingly hard performance problems.

Bitbucket Cloud’s new chatbot features a wide range of notification types, plenty of interactivity, and some smart configuration features that will supercharge your team’s development workflow. The bot is available today for Slack and is coming soon to Atlassian Stride and other leading chat platforms.

SAP MaxDB is robust and reliable technology that is an immanent component of various mySAP technologies including APO (live cache) and KM. Since databases like MaxDB store huge amounts of data, in-depth monitoring is vital for optimal operation of these systems.

The ability to visualize your IT infrastructure from end to end is critical in fostering successful operations and delivery of service. Being a network admin, you need to keep a close eye on all your network devices, whether they're across the globe or inside your data centers. However, this is difficult to do without an actual location-based topology map of your network infrastructure.

Hi there! this is the first post on Statuspal’s young life :) we’ll be using this publication to communicate about new and upcoming features on our beloved platform and of course all things related to status pages & monitoring. First, an introduction is in order, Statuspal aims to solve a subtle but important problem, status communication & monitoring, sometimes sites go down, no matter how perfectly engineered they are, they will go down.

First of all, what is SSL? It is short for Secure Sockets Layer. In simple words and without getting into too much technical details, adding a SSL certificate makes the connection more secure and much safer when you browse, buy and communicate online.

Icinga Camp Berlin and New York were a blast – thank you everyone for joining! The archive for both is now online including slides and recordings.