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12 Keyword Research Tools to Help You Find the Best Search Terms for Your Business

Lots of businesses struggle with keyword research and finding the best search terms for their business regardless of the ever-present and readily available advice on keyword research. It’s no secret that there’s a lot involved in getting the best search terms that fit your business niche. For starters, it’s essential to understand that a solid keyword research strategy is necessary to guide the overall marketing strategy.

Modernise Windows 2008 Apps, Automatically!

With support for Windows 2008 shrinking, most enterprises are looking for options to move their apps onto newer versions of Windows (2016 or 2019). Some enterprises are okay paying through their nose for extended support, the majority cannot afford it! Some enterprises started migrating these apps ahead of time, however, some are stuck on which option to choose (re-write or re-platform).

Enable SSO and MFA by adding SIGNL4 as an enterprise app in Azure Active Directory

This article describes how SIGNL4 can be generally authorized as an enterprise app for Azure AD users (Marketplace Link). This is important if you want to implement the use of SIGNL4 in your company with existing user accounts from the Azure AD.

Aggregating, Managing and Centralizing Docker Container Logs With Graylog

Docker containers are an amazing invention that simplified the lives of many IT departments. Container images are lightweight, easily standardizable, and highly secure. Docker is the technology of choice when you need to run several different (and possibly newer) applications on the same servers.

Beyond the standard monitoring

In most cases, monitoring is often viewed as pretty dumb alarm system – built to notify if something goes wrong. However, there could be cases when monitoring software can be used not so straightforward, or apply non-obvious settings or means to handle the task. Some of them are listed below. If you can think of any other case, please let us know in the comments form in the bottom.

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Stop using NPS to measure software quality

Using NPS as an engineering metric gets product owners into hot water. A good NPS score is seen in software communities as the benchmark for a product-first company and regularly features on executive and IPO reports. It's so common that over two-thirds of the Fortune 1000 claim to use it. But imagine if every software tool you used sent you regular NPS surveys? Response rates will suffer and the metric will slowly become less and less valuable over time.

Build faster, error-free Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps with Raygun

With 900 billion devices running on Windows 10, the future is bright for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). UWP’s strength lies in its ability to adapt itself completely to the native user interface - whether that’s a computer, tablet, Xbox or IoT device. It’s a win-win; users get a consistent experience as they consume across devices, while developers get easier deployments.

Drive continuous improvement with shareable postmortems in Opsgenie

It’s a given that customers expect software and IT services to be high-performing and always on. And, because incidents and downtime will always be a thing, we believe that how you respond can make or break the customer experience. We’ve learned this lesson first hand while refining our own incident management process over the last decade.

Lifting the Index Size Limit of Prometheus with Postings Compression

Prometheus’s TSDB (TimeSeries DataBase) stores the recent data in the memory and the old data on persistent storage in the form of blocks. Each block has its own index to map the series to the actual chunks that contain the data samples. During Google Summer of Code 2019, I mentored Alec Wang throughout this work on lifting the size limitations of the index mentioned above. The work described below is up for review and should be merged soon.