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RapidSpike Offers Free Ecommerce Performance & Cybersecurity

Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, an increasing number of people are currently using online resources for their daily lives to work from home, shop online, and for entertainment. Many companies are now turning to ecommerce to fulfill their customers’ orders and those who already have ecommerce stores may be seeing an increase in traffic, causing reliability or performance issues.

Leverage JIRA with Squadcast throughout the incident lifecycle

Atlassian’s Jira is an issue and project tracking software that helps plan, track and manage projects. Jira is also used by customers and internal teams to log issue tickets for the product and engineering teams to look into and resolve. This forms a feedback loop between the customer-facing and product teams to help drive and deliver the best possible software. Jira is widely adopted by Agile development teams to customize workflows and embrace collaborative resolutions to ship good software fast.

Deploying Your Applications Using Codefresh, Google Cloud Platform, and Google Kubernetes Engine

Kubernetes offers scalability and reliability for your container-based applications. Combine this with GKE, and you now eliminate the need to install or operate clusters on your own. A huge plus to using GKE is that you now will be running Kubernetes in a GCP environment, therefore you can utilize all the handy integrations Google has to offer. Codefresh simplifies the process even more, by automating the process of getting your code built, tested, and deployed.

WFH tips: a technical guide to video conference calls

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many companies to require employees to work from home. It’s a new normal for many, but at Grafana Labs our team has always recruited and operated with a remote-first culture in mind. To help everyone transition to a home office environment, we launched a new WFH series in which Grafana team members share their best advice for staying productive at home – yes, even if you have kids around.

Why remote workers need a dashboard

Over the last few days, most of us have been getting to grips with this new, albeit temporary, norm of remote working. At SquaredUp, we’ve always been able to work like this as all of the tools we use day-to-day are SaaS products or hosted in Azure, but while we’ve always had the right tools, we’ve never actually had to experience everyone being out of the office at the same time.

Shipping AWS S3 CloudWatch Metrics to Logz.io

AWS S3 buckets are an indisputably powerful—and extremely well-organized—DevOps tool. Standing for “simple storage service,” the S3 is the lowest tier offered for AWS storage, but it is also the most indispensable. S3 buckets store data for immediate recall, the most active components in Amazon’s arsenal of storage options. They can store a variety of developer applications and up to five terabytes of data each.

Running effective meetings in a remote company

As a remote-first company, we’ve spent a lot of time optimizing how we work together as a team. In these challenging times, teams around the world are working to flatten the curve by trying their hand at remote working for the first time. To help these teams succeed, we thought it was the perfect time to share some of the practices and culture we’ve developed to run meetings effectively on Mattermost. Here are seven tips for successful remote meetings.

Now on Now: A new line of defense

Some would liken the ServiceNow Security team to a silent, but highly skilled group of warriors working continuously to protect our customers and our services. To deliver that we have to ensure our company, people, and assets are secure. The fact is that our Security team is much more than that. They work tirelessly behind the scenes to constantly enrich ServiceNow’s security posture.

How Road Traffic Insights Derived from Sensor Data Improve Public Safety and Reduce Emergency Services Response Times

It’s easy to see the value of sensor data that enables acting in time. Just picture driving as the scene of a massive traffic accident unfolds and ambulances race to the rescue…what a difference a few seconds can make. What if past traffic patterns could help city operators predict and manage traffic flow at critical times?

Top 5 Cybersecurity Threats to Watch in 2020

These days, cybercriminals are ambitious and innovative, with no shortage of tools and resources at their disposal to go after high-stakes targets and execute malicious code — all while flying completely under the radar. To prepare you for what’s ahead, below are five of the top cybersecurity threats you might encounter in 2020.