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Monitor Password Protected Websites for Changes

Many of our users come to ChangeTower in search of a website monitoring solution for their password-protected websites. While your browser inherently recognizes you when browsing your sites, website monitoring services are essentially going to be monitoring your webpages in ‘incognito’ mode and often times need to get past a login screen in order to get to the content you’d like to check for changes.

Shipping Clean Code at Sentry with Linters, Travis CI, Percy, & More

Shipping clean, safe, and correct code is a high priority for engineering at Sentry. Bugs are best discovered before they hit production because afterward they have real user impact and can drain even a high-performing team’s resources quickly. The later in the development cycle a bug is found, the longer it will take to fix.

Four Ways to Adapt ITSM to an Agile World

The transition to Agile development and continuous deployment has resulted in the DevOps movement to break down organizational walls. While there are many benefits to this approach, some best practices of traditional IT Service Management (ITSM) have been lost in the transition. Which ITSM processes and controls are still relevant and how can you adapt them to the new agile world?

Icinga 2.10 released: Namespaces, Notifications, TLS Performance

Our friends from the Max-Planck-Institut for Marine Mikrobiologie kindly sponsored that acknowledgement notifications are now sent only to users which have been notified about a problem before – thanks a lot. Another sponsor asked for more child options for the ScheduledDowntime which are now released in 2.10.

Building a more reliable infrastructure with new Stackdriver tools and partners

Every software organization faces challenges in keeping applications available and running reliably. At Google, we’ve developed and practiced a discipline known as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Following SRE practices lets us build and operate services reliably for our billions of users. Google has about 2,500 Site Reliability Engineers who support both internal and external services.