The cloud native stack, also referred to as the new stack, is composed of the new cloud-independent counterparts of cloud managed services. As enterprises moved to the cloud, they started leveraging cloud managed services such as AWS’ DynamoDB or GCP’s BigQuery. Very convenient, these on-demand services significantly increased developer productivity. Being proprietary, they only work on that specific cloud, however — a significant drawback.
Tuesday isn’t exactly the most exciting day of the week—unless you’re a taco devotee—but we Customer Success Managers (CSM) at PagerDuty always have something exciting going on, whether it’s helping our customers get the most out of their PD instance or preparing behind the scenes to help them achieve their desired results. But that’s just skimming the surface of what CSMs do. Jump aboard and I’ll share some tips on how to work best with our CSM team!
I post openly about MRR, churn and other SaaS stuff on Twitter. I do this mostly for marketing purposes. Not going to lie. It's also kinda fun. At least when things are growing...
Following the fully featured public beta of the Elasticsearch Service on Microsoft Azure earlier this year, we are pleased to declare it is now generally available! Existing Elasticsearch Service customers can log in and launch deployments on Azure in their existing accounts, and new users can get started with a free 14-day trial of the Elasticsearch Service.
At OnPage, we communicate and interact with legal practices, understanding how their needs are changing, while helping them transform their operations. Through these conversations, we learned that an increasing number of practices look to transition to 24×7 after-hour communications, allowing potential and existing clients to reach legal practitioners (i.e., lawyers) at any time.
So much goes into making a workplace suitable for employees—flexibility, salary perks, team dynamics, etc.—but sometimes we forget that technology is paramount to allowing people to be productive and engaged. I experienced this first hand years ago during an internship. I worked for an intelligence organization and assumed I’d be surrounded by the latest and greatest in digital devices and tools. I was wrong.
When starting an online business, people are usually not aware of what their targeted audience needs to see and how they will see it. For instance, businesses don’t realize why website visitors don’t convert into paying customers. Well, there could be several issues triggering such an occurrence like unattractive UI, complicated webpage view, or long response time. Tackling such issues and tracking website visitor behavior thus became an area of interest for most organizations.
Nagios is a well-known monitoring framework; it’s also known for its plugins, the software components that are actually providing monitoring capabilities. IPHost allows using Nagios plugins directly; we have detailed instructions on setting up and using Nagios plugins; below is the essence of these instructions. Plugins can be anything executable – native application, a script file (including Unix shell files or Windows PowerShell scripts) and so on.
We are super excited today to introduce our latest Zenduty integration with Slack, which we are calling the Zenduty Slack Incident Command System(Slack-ICS). This was many months in the making and went through multiple iterations and it is something we believe will redefine proactive incident management and response.
Transitioning from a Monolith to a Microservices architecture can take years to complete. The internet is full of stories of companies famously making this transformation. But how do you know if it’s right for your organization? Is your organization ready? In this article, we will look at five questions you can ask to see if you’ll benefit from a Microservices architecture. We’ll also discuss five challenges you will face during this transformation.
