PALO ALTO, CA, Feb. 5, 2019 (GlobeNewsWire) — Mattermost, the fastest growing messaging platform for engineering teams at large organizations, today announced that it has closed a $20 million series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures with participation by S28 Capital and Y Combinator. In just a few years, Mattermost has exploded in popularity as an open source messaging platform, with over 10,000 server downloads every month and a vibrant community of contributors.

Hi everyone, I am excited to announce that Mattermost has raised a $20 million Series A round led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from S28 Capital and Y Combinator. Mattermost’s mission is to make the world safer and more productive through open source software.

From buzz phrase to billion-dollar industry, the Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved products, business practices, and the way that companies and consumers interact with technology. Are you ready?

Cisco and AppDynamics are thrilled to participate in IBM Think 2019 in San Francisco, where technologists and thought leaders will share insights and discuss the latest IBM innovations. You won’t want to miss it.

Among my multiple occupations is also contributing to edit Wikipedia, and there is a wonderful article about Pandora FMS where it is stated that we can do a Web Page Monitoring to extract, for example, the value of Google actions and alert if they fall below a certain figure. That is still true today, although many things have changed!

Imagine if your MSP business had an elite group of advisors—made up of some of the brightest minds in the business—standing by to give you advice. Decades of insight and expertise on tap, there to safely guide you around pitfalls and share success strategies that have worked for them. Imagine the kind of boost that might give you.

Unless end users (EUs) are directly prevented from using applications, they are unlikely to report IT anomalies or malfunctions; it’s much easier to restart a program or click “x” to make the error message disappear than submitting a ticket. Every day, employees settle for small IT glitches which never go reported, giving IT departments the perception of smooth service delivery while, in reality, EUs are experiencing constant obstacles and frustration.

There should be no doubt anymore that containers are revolutionizing the world of application development and leading the charge for purpose-built cross-cloud and hybrid-cloud topologies. There are other virtualization platforms that solved problems in server consolidation and data center optimization, but in the new world of cloud and mobility, proprietary monolithic middleware may have had its day.

One of the key pieces of wisdom regarding any kind of development project is that all software problems are inherently hardwaret problems. This is one among many reasons why devices like the iPhone and the Xbox have been so popular over the years. When software and hardware integrate properly, and code is written to specs that take full advantage of the platform, great things become possible.

In a previous post, we explained the concept of configuration management and presented three of the most popular tools: Chef, Puppet, and Ansible. We also briefly explored the impact that containerization is having on configuration management, and how the two can be used in combination. This article takes a more in-depth look at this relationship by presenting different techniques for using Chef, Puppet, and Ansible to deploy and manage a Kubernetes cluster.