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Puppet on Windows: Top questions (and answers!)

Whether you’re a current customer looking to expand across your Windows estate, or thinking of deploying Puppet across your infrastructure for the first time, we hope this blog post — based on real-world customer questions and problems — can help answer some of the questions you may have about Puppet.

Announcing our latest attacks to deal with meeting fatigue

Gremlin empowers you to proactively root out failure before it causes downtime. See how you can harness chaos to build resilient systems by requesting a demo of Gremlin. With everyone working remotely, video conference tools like Zoom have been a critical part of maintaining business continuity. It’s truly amazing that we can continue to work and connect with one another, even during a time where getting together in an office hasn’t been possible…

Collect Amazon CloudWatch metrics faster with Datadog using CloudWatch Metric Streams

Having quick access to metrics and health signals from your AWS environment is paramount to identifying issues expediently and monitoring the effects of any deployed fixes. Datadog is proud to partner with AWS for the launch of CloudWatch Metric Streams, a new feature that allows AWS users to forward metrics from key AWS services to different endpoints, including Datadog, via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose with low latency.

How to configure services in Squadcast: Best practices to reduce MTTR

With a rise in digital platforms, IT infrastructure has grown exponentially complex to a level where multiple application interdependencies coexist with varied architecture & oncall team types. This blog looks at how you can model your infrastructure in Squadcast to reduce your time to respond & resolve incidents.

Navigating the 5G Edge - Xhaul, Slicing and MEC

5G architectures are groundbreaking on several fronts.  Disaggregated RAN, virtualized core, edge cloud capabilities, and network slicing can all be combined to address an entirely new generation of use cases that create opportunities for disruptive operators to gain revenue and market share.      Most of these new technologies must be deployed very close to the customer network edge and require a nimble toolkit of fronthaul transport solutions, MEC solutions, and network slicing orchestration across all components.  This session will discuss these new ‘edge-related’ capabilities and how they can work together to maximize mobile operator differentiation.

Cloud 66 Feature Highlight: Application Update Lockdown

Application Update Lockdown allows you to control your deployments. Ask a team member or your client to sign-off your project before deploying to the production environment. By default, AUL is not active, and anyone with the proper permissions can deploy the application. However, you can change the default setting to one of the other two options: Approval from Anyone, or Approval from specific Team Member(s).