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Event in Review: MIT Sloan CIO Digital Learning Series - The Post-Pandemic Workplace and Customer Experience

Since the annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium had to be canceled this year, MIT made the decision to launch a CIO Digital Learning Series. Episode 3 was broken into two parts, beginning with a fireside chat on the post-pandemic workplace, moderated by Irving Wladawsky-Berger with Catchpoint’s CEO Mehdi Daoudi and Eash Sundaram, Executive Vice President, Chief Digital and Technology at JetBlue, which was followed by a panel led by Paul Michelman on customer experience strategies.

Kubernetes and Helm: monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Helm was born during the Pycon conference in 2013. Well, it wasn’t exactly Helm, it was Docker. It took Mr. Solomon Hykes a little over five minutes to completely change computing history. Ok, I admit that not everyone knows about -and uses- Docker and/or Kubernetes, but there is one fact that is undeniable: Helm in November 2019 had a million downloads and that is something important. We will see why.

Headless browser automation guide - Writing theheadless.dev

After weeks of writing, researching and hopefully enough proofreading, we just launched a living collection of practical guides on leveraging headless browser tools (starting with Puppeteer and Playwright) for testing, monitoring, scraping, performance measuring and more. We called it theheadless.dev. This article is about the different approaches we tried in contributing ideas to the Puppeteer community, as well as the principles that guide our latest contribution.

Elastic 7.9 released, with free distribution tier of features of Workplace Search and endpoint security

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Elastic 7.9. This release brings a broad set of new capabilities to our Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions, which are built on the Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.

What is a Network Operations Center (NOC)?

A network operations center (“NOC”) provides a central location for enterprise IT. Here, NOC team members supervise, monitor, and maintain an enterprise’s services, databases, external services, firewalls, and networks. With a full understanding of how a NOC works, your enterprise is well-equipped to maximize its performance.

Moogsoft Joins Inc. Magazine's List of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies

Inc. Magazine has named Moogsoft to its annual Inc. 5000 list — an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies across all industries. The pioneer and leading provider of AIOps solutions made its debut on the prestigious list — ranked at # 884 — based on its 528 percent revenue growth over the past three years.

Cloud Costs: Money Saver or Money Pit?

This is the second in my series on the cloud. I started writing about cloud visibility and in this article, we take a look at cloud costs. If we look at the evolution of computing over the past 30 or so years, it has always been about monumental shifts in technology, which drive further and further innovation, efficiencies and – seemingly – cost reduction.

What is GitLab CI/CD

GitLab CI/CD is a tool that is built into GitLab. It allows you to create automated tasks that you can use to form a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery / Deployment process. You configure GitLab CI/CD by adding a yaml file (called `.gitlab-ci.yml`) to your source repository. This file creates a pipeline, which will then run when a code change is pushed to the repository. Pipelines are made up of a series of stages, and each stage can each contain a number of jobs or scripts.

Tools Which can help You Manage and Market Your Website

Nowadays, having no strong internet presence means people not knowing about your brand. Fortunately, there are numerous online business tools available, which could help you set up and manage your website. From the design, website development to social media and everything in between managing your online presence is paramount. Having an internet presence means reinforcing your brand, boosting your marketing endeavor, and most of all help connect with customers.

Ransomware: 11 Steps You Should Take to Protect Against Disaster

The frequency and volume of ransomware attacks have increased dramatically in the past few years. Few people in the tech industry will forget the 2017 WannaCry attack, which infected over 200,000 computers in 150 countries worldwide and brought down part of the U.K.’s National Health Service, or the 2019 RobbinHood attack, which brought the Baltimore government to a standstill for nearly two weeks.