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Understanding Progress: How Technology Shapes Package Leak Detection

Businesses that deliver packages and mail rely on reliable technology to ensure their products are delivered quickly and effectively. But just as essential is ensuring the safety of those packages from start to finish. Package leak detection technology has come a long way, helping businesses improve product protection accuracy and minimize loss due to tampering or leakage. In this blog post, we will explore how progress in technology over the years has revolutionized package leak detection.

Reduce Tech Debt + Prevent New Tech Debt with These DevOps Tips

Tech debt affects just about every software organization. For better or worse, speed is one of the core tenets of the software development industry – the rush to build more, add new features, and find solutions fast can drive short-term growth for small organizations and add value for large companies. But haste, as it usually does, makes waste: The mass of suboptimal code, redundant services, and bottlenecked processes that we call tech debt.

Day 0, Day 1, Day 2 Operations: Putting it All Together on Day 2

Following good practices in the Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 software development lifecycle can help you create a consistent environment that is easier to maintain. In this blog, we will deepen your understanding of how to make Day 2 operations succeed, and how high performing teams put Puppet to work on Day 2 to make a stronger, less manual, software development lifecycle.

'Tis the Season for Automation as Retail Sales Pump Problems in IT Systems

December: The month that breaks the internet Every. Single. Year. An exponential increase in sales likely tops any retailer’s holiday gift wish list. And while more revenue is never a bad thing, chances are, your IT team could use some extra cheer to keep their spirits bright. Shoppers are going to shop 24/7, and the gift-giving boom can easily overwhelm your IT systems and processes.

Pay As You Grow Automation

The IT landscape is evolving faster than ever before, and the move to cloud-based solutions has emerged as a game-changer for businesses looking to future-proof their infrastructure. However, the move to cloud solutions is not all plain sailing and comes with its own challenges due to the change in management access. For example, Microsoft 365 / Office 365 saves companies the headache of operating Exchange, SharePoint and Teams infrastructure.

Episode 1 | Tushar Srivastava on BPM, Process Mining and AI Automation

In this inaugural episode of the Tech Decisions Podcast, the hosts introduce the show and its purpose of making enterprise technology research accessible and insightful. The guest, Tushar Shrivastava, a BPM enthusiast and former Gartner analyst, provides an overview of BPM (Business Process Management) and the technologies it encompasses, including business process automation, process mining, and task mining. The importance of investing in BPM technologies is discussed, along with successful outcomes of BPM implementations.

Getting started with IT operations automation

Tech companies face a daunting challenge: a staggering 90% of their IT teams are stuck doing mundane, repetitive tasks, leaving only 10% to focus on strategic innovation. Companies know that automation is the solution to these repetitive, low-level incident response actions; however, many need support to begin automating.

How to Run Puppet in Docker

In early 2023 Betadots together with Vox Pupuli adopted the Puppet containers and so this article has been updated to contain the new locations. Details of their adoption can be found here. If you’ve ever wanted to get started with Puppet or Docker — or both — you’ve probably faced a bit of a conundrum. Should I use Puppet to deploy Docker on my nodes, and then use Puppet to define container images?