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Relationships between Operation and Devlopment Teams

Modern businesses are evolving rapidly with the advent of cloud, CI/CD and microservices. However, there still exists an extensive and obvious divide between principle business stakeholders and developmental teams. Development teams are often unaware of the challenges faced by operations teams and vice-versa. This is where a need for adoption of DevOps principles comes into the picture. DevOps which came into existence as the natural successor to Agile practices in software development.

The why, when and how of API Gateway service proxies

Serverless Hero Yan Cui explains when and why you should use API Gateway service proxies, and introduces an open source tool to make it easy to implement. One of the very powerful and yet often under-utilized features of API Gateway is its ability to integrate directly with other AWS services. For example, you can connect API Gateway directly to an SNS topic without needing a Lambda function in the middle. Or to S3, or any number of AWS services.

New Partnership with Ergo Group, Ireland

A new partnership between NiCE IT Management Solutions and Ergo will enable Microsoft Dynamics 365 customers to get more out of their investment through advanced performance and health monitoring. Microsoft Dynamics 365 is one of the fastest growing CRM solutions with more large-scale enterprises using it as their core business solution.

Real-User Monitoring for Single-Page Apps

Exoprise Service Watch, our real-user monitoring (RUM) product, recently improved support for monitoring Single-Page Apps (SPAs) which have become the foundation for many Software-as-a-Service applications like GSuite, Salesforce Lightening, or Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access. SPAs have unique requirements when it comes to capturing and monitoring end-user experience especially through different network configurations, proxies, firewalls and branch office users.

Quick Guide to Redshift

Redshift is a fast, managed, data warehouse solution that's part of AWS. Although it is traditional SQL and meant for BI (Business Intelligence), it is designed for scalability and can support many workloads typically reserved for Big Data tools. It is protocol-compatible with PostgreSQL and is available through JDBC/ODBC, opening it up to a huge range of existing SQL tools.

Showcasing End-to-End Visibility across Cerner RHO and Health IT Infrastructure at 2019 Cerner Health Conference

“Healthcare is too important to stay the same,” said Cerner’s CEO Brent Shafer as he closed his keynote for the 2019 Cerner Conference. “To drive positive change,” Brent said, “everyone must work together.” It made sense. His audience was a mix of clinicians, staff, health IT, and vendors. He was talking about taking healthcare and patient care to a new level.

What It's Like Working Remotely as a Junior Dev

I am a junior software engineer in Slovakia. I feel incredibly lucky that I’ve had this amazing opportunity to join Grafana Labs, as it was among the top companies that I’ve ever dreamed about working for. The only thing that I was slightly scared of was the fact that Grafana Labs is remote-first, and I would be working full-time from home.

Business use of Workplace Communications: Four Key Trends

Over the years, online communications have evolved, increasingly making it easier for businesses to connect. Thanks to the internet, companies of all sizes can now benefit from real-time, high-quality voice chat technology, screen sharing, video conferencing, and more. And these apps have changed the way we work, allowing coworkers to collaborate whether they're in the same building or half a world away.

How to detect CVE-2019-14287 using Falco

A recent flaw, CVE-2019-14287, has been found in sudo. In this blogpost, we are going to show you how to use Falco or Sysdig Secure, to detect any exploit attempts against this vulnerability. sudo allows users to run commands with other user privileges. It is typically used to allow unprivileged users to execute commands as root. The issue exists in the way sudo has implemented running commands with an arbitrary user ID in versions earlier than 1.8.28.

GitKraken vs SmartGit

The GitKraken Git Client was one of the first software products of its kind to hit the market in August 2014, built by Axosoft developers who were on a mission to find a Git GUI that didn’t suck. One that could quickly show who was doing what, to which file, on any project; one that could help expedite individual workflows and improve team collaboration; one that visually blew the minds of everyone who interacted with it.