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Keys to Curing Your Employees' Digital Workplace Woes

Unless end users (EUs) are directly prevented from using applications, they are unlikely to report IT anomalies or malfunctions; it’s much easier to restart a program or click “x” to make the error message disappear than submitting a ticket. Every day, employees settle for small IT glitches which never go reported, giving IT departments the perception of smooth service delivery while, in reality, EUs are experiencing constant obstacles and frustration.

Mattermost Raises $20 Million Series A Funding to Bring High-Trust Messaging to Security-Conscious Enterprises

PALO ALTO, CA, Feb. 5, 2019 (GlobeNewsWire) — Mattermost, the fastest growing messaging platform for engineering teams at large organizations, today announced that it has closed a $20 million series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures with participation by S28 Capital and Y Combinator. In just a few years, Mattermost has exploded in popularity as an open source messaging platform, with over 10,000 server downloads every month and a vibrant community of contributors.

We raised $20M to help make the world safer and more productive

Hi everyone, I am excited to announce that Mattermost has raised a $20 million Series A round led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from S28 Capital and Y Combinator. Mattermost’s mission is to make the world safer and more productive through open source software.

Stackdriver Profiler adds more languages and new analysis features

Historically, cloud developers have had limited visibility into the impact of their code changes. Profiling non-production deployments doesn’t yield useful results, and profiling tools used in production are typically expensive, with a performance impact that means that they can only be used briefly and on a small portion of the overall code base.

How to Configure Windows Network Printers and Email in Office 365

Enterprise users of Office 365 often need to configure a multi-function printer to use the platform’s SMTP email capabilities on their network. There are several ways of doing this, each with their own benefits and disadvantages. In this guide we’ll be looking at the steps required in setting up Office 365 network printing and email under various conditions.

Web Page Monitoring with Pandora FMS, Python and BeautifulSoup

Among my multiple occupations is also contributing to edit Wikipedia, and there is a wonderful article about Pandora FMS where it is stated that we can do a Web Page Monitoring to extract, for example, the value of Google actions and alert if they fall below a certain figure. That is still true today, although many things have changed!

Prioritize Errors that Matter with Sentry + Jira Server

Bugs are dumb. They’re also inevitable. However annoying that may be, it’s more productive to accept the existence of bugs in our workflows than to panic-spiral every single time they pop up. Part of the acceptance process is keeping bugs (or at least the ones you care to fix) top of mind by paralleling your error monitoring and your sprint planning.

5 Reasons Why Your Web Application is Slow

One of the key pieces of wisdom regarding any kind of development project is that all software problems are inherently hardwaret problems. This is one among many reasons why devices like the iPhone and the Xbox have been so popular over the years. When software and hardware integrate properly, and code is written to specs that take full advantage of the platform, great things become possible.

5 Best Practices for Getting the Most out of RUM

More than likely you’re here because you’ve made the leap or are thinking of making the leap in investing in a Real Monitoring Solution. Congrats. You’re one step closer to having the power of user metrics working in your favor. Real User Monitoring is a way for your users to communicate with you how satisfied they were when they interacted with your website or webapp, so how can you be sure you’re listening correctly?

Containerizing Legacy Windows Applications

There should be no doubt anymore that containers are revolutionizing the world of application development and leading the charge for purpose-built cross-cloud and hybrid-cloud topologies. There are other virtualization platforms that solved problems in server consolidation and data center optimization, but in the new world of cloud and mobility, proprietary monolithic middleware may have had its day.