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Mattermost wins 2024 DEVIES Award for Best Innovation in ITOps

We’re thrilled to announce that Mattermost has earned the 12th annual DEVIES Award for Best Innovation in ITOps! The award — given to a platform “responsible for acquiring, designing, deploying, configuring, and maintaining the physical and virtual components that comprise IT infrastructure” — was presented on Feb. 21 during DeveloperWeek 2024 to our very own Director of Product Marketing Amanda Cheong and Developer Advocate Andrew Zigler at the Oakland Marriott City Center.

How to find and test critical dependencies with Gremlin

Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Pop quiz—what are all of the dependencies your services rely on? If you’re like most engineers, you probably struggled to come up with the answer. Modern applications are complex and rely on dozens (if not hundreds) of dependencies. Many teams rely on spreadsheets, but manual processes like these break down over time. What if you had a tool that found and tracked dependencies for you?

How to use host redundancy to improve service reliability and availability

Cloud computing has made provisioning new servers easy, fast, and relatively cheap. Almost anyone can log into a cloud console, spin up a new server, and deploy an application. And if they need greater uptime, major cloud providers include all kinds of settings, services, and configurations to add fault tolerance and failover. So why is it that many services fail when a single server instance fails?

ArgoCD vs FluxCD vs Jenkins X - Battle of Declarative GitOps Tools

The need for automation is becoming more important day by day. The process of integrating written code with already working code and publishing new code to live environments is a very error-prone process. Performing static analysis, running tests, packaging, and versioning are tasks that require a lot of manual effort. It’s also a complex task to solve the problem of deploying the projects we develop to more than one environment, on more than one machine, without automation.

Migrate from SolarWinds to Tidal's Modern IPAM Solution

Here at Tidal, we have helped many organizations make the switch from SolarWinds to LightMesh. We developed our LightMesh IPAM (IP Address Management) solution to provide advanced automation and ease-of-use for network engineers. If you’ve considered migrating away from SolarWinds IP Address Manager, this post will walk through how to make the switch.

The Transformative Benefits Of AWS Well-Architected Reviews For Organizations In 2024

IDC predicted that over half of Asia Pacific's digital-first businesses plan to pump up their tech spend by 20% in the next year. They're betting on cutting-edge tech like AI and cloud platforms to stay ahead, innovate, and maintain their financial viability. As AWS is the leading cloud provider across the globe, most businesses rely on it for highly reliable quality cloud services.

How to Set Up an Email Server for Your Business

Setting up a secure email server for your business ensures efficient communication and data security. Having your own email server gives you control over your email infrastructure and the ability to customize it to meet your specific needs. In this guide, we will go over each step when it comes to how to set up an email server for your business.

Making incidents less painful with Kerim Satirli of HashiCorp & Lawrence Jones of incident.io

For a lot of teams, incident management can be a bit of a headache. It's stressful. It's not optimized. The whole process can feel like it's being held together with tape. Worst of all? Responders are the ones feeling the brunt of it. But in reality, your customers are, too. Think about it: But honestly, the situation doesn't even have to be so dire. Things can be, generally speaking, totally fine. But you recognize that there are some things that you can do to make incident response really shine at your organization.