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Monitoring Kubernetes, part 1: the challenges + data sources

Our industry has long been relying on microservice-based architecture to deliver software faster and safer. The advent and ubiquity of microservices naturally paved the way for container technology, empowering us to rethink how we build and deploy our applications. Docker exploded onto the scene in 2013, and, for companies focusing on modernizing their infrastructure and cloud migration, a tool like Docker is critical to shipping applications quickly, at scale.

The Multi-faceted Use Cases and Benefits of Application Performance Monitoring Tools in Enterprise IT

Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions are among the most essential tools for IT today. As organizations undertake transformational initiatives such as cloud migration, container orchestration and microservices, they need to be able to manage performance of their business-critical applications and end-user experience across complex and sophisticated technology landscapes.

How Much Should My Observability Stack Cost?

What should one pay for observability? How much observability is enough? How much is too much, or is there such a thing? Is it better to pay for one product that claims (dubiously) to do everything, or twenty products that are each optimized to do a different part of the problem super well? It’s almost enough to make a busy engineer say “Screw it, I’m spinning up Nagios”. (Hey, I said almost.)

Whitelist Email Addresses: Thunderbird

TLDR; "If you expect to receive important emails from a trusted email address it is worth whitelisting the address to make sure that emails won't be accidentally blocked by an overzealous email client." In this post we show you how to do it in Mozilla Thunderbird by selecting the correct address book settings and adding the email address as a contact in your address book...

A Quick Guide to Encrypted Messaging

With it now being so easy to share information, we have a tendency to over-divulge. We check into public places online, tell the world when we’re going on holiday and where, and send and receive risqué photos. However, when it became public knowledge that the NSA, internet service providers, and trusted social media platforms were able to monitor our private messages, the choice to share or not to share was taken away from us.