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Rails Logger and Rails Logging Best Practices

Logging provides critical value to applications with insight to usage, stats, and metrics, and saves us when debugging a problem. But we often leave logging to poorly implemented afterthoughts. So what should we know to get the most out of our logging? We will look at the Rails logger and some logging best practices.

NiCE VMware MP 5.00 Released

Get the complete picture of the health and performance of your business critical VMware environments. The NiCE VMware Management Pack delivers first-rate monitoring for your business critical, highly dynamical virtualized environments. Even overcoming the specter of global VMware service outages is now viable. Leverage your existing investment, reduce costs, save time and build efficiencies that will last beyond your expectations.

Lambda@Edge: Why Less is More

Lambda@Edge is a compute service that allows you to write JavaScript code that executes in any of the 150+ AWS edge locations making up the Amazon CloudFront content delivery network (CDN) service. In this post, I’ll provide some background on CDN technologies. I will also build out an application stack that serves country-specific content depending on where the user request originates from.

Dashbird product update - February 2019

Mikk and the rest of the dev team at Dashbird have been working overtime this past month, in an effort to rehaul the user experience in the app based on the feedback we are constantly getting. We believe in having an honest and open, two-way street when it comes to communication so I advise each and every one of you to either write us an email via support@dashbird.io or to join our slack channel.

IBM Think 2019 (San Francisco) - Event Recap

With sessions on cloud, big data, and A.I., to training courses, certifications, and hands-on labs, IBM Think 2019 in San Francisco was full of innovation and learning. From talks on emerging technologies and industry trends, the overall theme of the event was clear – IBM is betting on the next chapter of cloud: multi-cloud, Kubernetes, containers, microservices and open-source.

How Workday is using BigPanda to increase availability SLA

It’s always great to get a shout-out from a customer, so I was thrilled to read a post on “Medium” written by our friends at Workday that talks about BigPanda! In the post, Owen Sullivan, Software Development Manager at Workday, discusses how Workday raised their availability SLA from an already industry-leading 99.5% to 99.7%, and how one of the key drivers they see for delivering on this promise is efficient monitoring.

451 Research: OpsRamp Expands The Breadth and Depth Of Its Service-Centric AIOps Platform

OpsRamp was recently featured in the 451 Research Impact report, OpsRamp Keeps Up With The Competition, Investing in ML, Kubernetes Monitoring. This report, written by Nancy Gohring, 451 Research’s senior analyst for Application and Infrastructure Performance, demonstrates how OpsRamp is one of the few vendors that has organically built and delivered a transformational SaaS solution for modern IT operations, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering teams.