The Covid-19 pandemic had a huge impact on employment. Perhaps one of the most important was the rise in remote working. Some workers chose to work remotely to protect themselves - others were asked to as a part of a plan from their company to help limit the spread of the virus among members of staff.

Business consulting software is the missing piece of the puzzle for many consulting businesses that are struggling to facilitate growth. With the right tools and systems at your disposal, it's possible to build a scalable consulting business that fires on all cylinders. Many underestimate the importance of picking the right software solutions to power a consulting business operation.

In March 2019, Facebook experienced a 14-hour outage that cost the company $90 million. In July 2018, Amazon lost up to $99 million on Prime Day after experiencing downtime. While these critical financial crises greatly impacted these industry leaders, both companies were able to recover from them eventually; however, many smaller organizations may not have the means to overcome a similar incident. As per Gartner, downtime costs on average $ 5,600 per minute; since IT operations vary from business to business, downtime could cost $140,000 per hour on the lower end or $540,000 per hour on the higher end.

Picture yourself trying to resolve a code error when you notice an additional issue outside your realm of expertise that's making matters worse. Your instinct is to get in touch with the right contact as quickly as possible to resolve the issue so that there's no further impact on the system's uptime. But what if you can't get in touch with them immediately, or don't know who to contact? Instead of trying to solve the problem without support, a DevOps toolchain could have mitigated this chain reaction from the start.

It's not for nothing that Kubernetes is a popular choice for running a cloud workload. It can be a powerful tool for orchestrating your applications. However, one thing that can often be a last thought in a production workflow, or maybe forgotten altogether, is load testing. It might be tempting to think that Kubernetes can handle it all. In many cases it can, but it's always smart to know how much your application can take. After reading this article, you'll be equipped to determine which tools would best serve you for load testing your application.

When downtime strikes any distributed software deployment or platform, it's all hands on deck until the lights are green and service is restored. This process, from the recognition of a problem to a deployed solution, has most commonly been defined as MTTR - mean time to resolution. In just the last few years, DevOps and site reliability (SRE) professionals have developed sophisticated new models for how they work and audit their successes. In 2022, MTTR is one of the most widely-used software performance success metrics.

Most companies take their integration infrastructure for granted. I'm talking about middleware such as IBM MQ, Kafka, Solace, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ. These form the basis of most enterprise-level businesses. One of our electronic manufacturing customers was building products worth $40K per minute. A failure in one of the factory floor's automated systems brought manufacturing operations to a complete halt.