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Step by Step guide on how to update to SCCM 1906

Hi all, Microsoft has just recently released their latest iteration to SCCM, version 1906. With this update of SCCM comes quite a few welcome features and to find out more go to this link on the Microsoft site. But you are here to see how easy it is to upgrade your SCCM to the current branche 1906. So let’s get started on the upgrade process for SCCM 1906.

NGINX LOGS - Full Guide 2020: Monitoring, Analyzing and Troubleshooting Your NGINX Logs

Life is about making choices: Coke or Pepsi? Beatles or Stones? Mac or PC? In the world of web servers, the choice used to be between open-source Apache and Microsoft’s IIS. Back in 2004, when everybody had lost interest in the World Wide Web, an upstart web server appeared out of nowhere. Now, just over fifteen years later, NGINX has been rapidly rising in popularity and currently has a 30.8% of the webserver market compared to Apache’s 44.1%.

Serverless Summer School (SSS) Week 1: Local Debugging Workshop

Stackery's CTO, Chase Douglas, AWS Startup Partner Solutions Architect AM Grobelny, and AWS Senior Developer Advocate Eric Johnson kick off the Serverless Summer School series with a local debugging workshop. The gang will address the frustrations of developers attempting to locally debug Lambda functions and reviewing tools like the AWS SAM CLI and the Stackery CLI to proposing a language-independent workflow that doesn't require hours of research to set up. Follow along through the example of setting up a simple serverless application.

Serverless Summer School (SSS) Week 2: Implementing the Wild Rydes Front-End

The first part of the comprehensive Wild Rydes simple serverless application workshop. This session also covers common topics for building serverless applications like secrets management and user authentication, authorization, and management. Hosts: Chase Douglas (CTO @ Stackery), AM Grobelny (Startup Partner Solutions Architect @ AWS), and Eric Johnson (Sr. Developer Advocate @ AWS).

Serverless Summer School (SSS) Week Three: Building the Wild Rydes Back-End

The second part of the comprehensive Wild Rydes simple serverless application workshop. This session covers common topics for building serverless applications like secrets management and user authentication, authorization, and management. Hosts: Chase Douglas (CTO @ Stackery), AM Grobelny (Startup Partner Solutions Architect @ AWS), & Eric Johnson (Sr. Developer Advocate @ AWS).

Software Engineers: Confidence Matters Just as Much as Ability

Software engineering is a skilled task; those who obtain the experience and credentials necessary to become engineers know this, as do their employers. Engineers have an overarching goal of using these skills to construct experiences that enable end-users to complete a task successfully and they hope to provide enjoyment and comfort along the way. Anyone who has written software used by a decent number of people knows how daunting this task is.

Watching the Chaos: Monitoring and Chaos Engineering

The online world is full of contrasts. On the one hand, you have site reliability engineers whose job is to keep the business running by ensuring an app’s smooth operations. On the other hand, you have the DevOps staff, whose goal is to minimize cycle time—the time from business idea to feature in production. These two teams can have conflicting objectives.

Stackery Professional Serverless Tooling Now Available on the AWS Marketplace

Stackery is now available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace! This is great news for development teams excited by the prospect of building and modernizing applications using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, API Gateway, Fargate, and the rest of the growing menu of serverless capabilities. AWS teams can start their serverless journeys with prescriptive and flexible tooling that extends AWS tools and services with less friction in the purchasing process.