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Serverless in 2019: From 'Hello World' to 'Hello Production'

As the CEO of Stackery, I have had a unique, inside view of serverless since we launched in 2016. I get to work alongside the world’s leading serverless experts, our customers, and our partners and learn from their discoveries. It’s a new year: the perfect time to take stock of professional progress, accomplishments, and goals.

EUC Predictions for 2019: Will It Be the Year of Digital Workspaces?

2018 was a promising year for enterprise IT in general, and specifically for End User Computing (EUC). We saw many interesting developments with the Citrix stack. 2018 marked the end of life (EOL) of the widely popular XenApp 6.5 and consequently, a majority of organizations migrated to the new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops version 7.

The Cost of Operational Immaturity

Digital operational maturity is defined as an organization’s effectiveness at real-time work and ability to focus on performance metrics that improve as the organization becomes more adept at responding to incidents. Based on extensive research and nine years of industry data, in conjunction with a survey of 600+ respondents from across industries, PagerDuty developed a model that identified the four following levels of operational maturity.

Comparison: Ruby vs. Python

Around 1996, when I attended my first programming classes, C++ was the language of choice if you wanted to have a job in this industry. The Internet was young and not as widely available as it is now. Ruby and Python were still in their infancy. Now, in 2018, both have evolved and matured well enough to be in the top 10 most in-demand programming languages. In this article, I’m going to highlight features and contrasts between Python and Ruby.

How is Progressive Web App different from Regular Web App?

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) vs Native Apps is a hot topic of debate in the market. Everyone is sharing their thoughts on what is similar in both the app types, what makes them apart, and who will rule the market in future. I’m sure you will also have your own points noted in a notebook to speak on this topic.

An Introduction to Executing Synthetic Transactions with LogicMonitor

Synthetic transactions facilitate proactive monitoring of online business services such as e-banking and e-commerce. They not only monitor existing services but can be used to simulate and test the quality of future user interactions with services. LogicMonitor includes Website Checks out-of-the-box but did you know that Scripted DataSources can be used to extend website monitoring into synthetic transactions?