The Oxford English Dictionary defines a geek as a person who is boring, wears clothes that are not fashionable, doesn't know how to behave in social situations. Talk about negative stereotyping! Being a geek is about so much more than (a lack of) fashion, being dull, and an alleged social ineptitude. Being a geek is something inherent, and as some of our Head Geeks will let you know, is saved for those who are truly passionate about the nichest of hobbies and interests.

Single-page applications (SPAs) present a unique approach to building web applications. They help to increase development velocity and can present big performance wins when it comes to delivering a fast and seamless user experience. Monitoring SPAs for performance still comes with a unique set of challenges, like choosing the most impactful metrics, gaining visibility into app performance over time, and knowing what metrics you can get from the browser. The main benefit of using SPAs is that a page does not need to reload when the content on the page changes. However, this feature, and the fact the page does not reload, is what makes it hard to monitor SPA performance.

Working from home is no longer an option but a necessity. Millions of Americans are now part of this "work from home" experiment triggered by Covid-19. There may be no turning back as employees and businesses choose this new emerging model. Remote workers are likely here to stay. According to a Gartner 2020 survey, 82% of business leaders surveyed plan to allow their employees to work remotely for part of the time and half of them intend to allow their employees to work remotely in the future.

Even before the emergence of a global pandemic that disrupted and catalysed modern workplace IT, IT professionals were under pressure. In a few years, many have learned to deliver more new technologies and advanced services than perhaps in the previous decade. Today's hybrid, distributed tech environments already pressured even senior admins to equip themselves with new skills to adapt to these changes and manage systems confidently.

There is a game of 'speed dating' going on between technology businesses and the software engineering talent that bring amazing solutions to market. In recent years big tech companies, expanding aggressively in Europe, have competed ferociously with locally headquartered tech startups for the best software engineers. These engineers are in short supply. A government-supported Tech Nation report disclosed that 10 per cent of all UK job vacancies were in tech. The report suggested that at current growth there could be 100,000 job openings per month before the end of June this year.

How organizations of any size can create a customer-centric application performance monitoring strategy.

Exoprise CloudReady provides early detection of mission-critical mail outages. On March 15, Microsoft had a service outage worldwide that impacted its services such as Teams AV, Yammer, OneDrive, and Azure Active Directory. Users reported not being able to login into either of these services and were getting timeout messages. Exoprise detected the issue earlier at 3 pm EST (40 mins before Microsoft reported it) and was able to immediately relay the news to its customer base.