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Deploying a MkDocs documentation site with GitHub Actions

In the previous post in this series about building documentation sites with MkDocs, I showed you how to host a site on GitHub Pages. We briefly touched upon GitHub Actions, the integrated build and deployment server available on GitHub. In this post, I'll continue the example and get a real deployment pipeline set up.

5 websites that have experienced website downtime in the first half of 2022

There’s a common myth that you may have heard – “only small companies’ websites go down”. This is a classic, especially since it couldn’t be more wrong. Thousands of websites go down, regardless of their size (or the size of their IT team for that), and even Google can, and has, suddenly experienced the dreaded monster that is “the outage”. So far, we are 6 months into 2022 and we’ve already seen a ton of websites go down.

Test Driving Machine Learning (ML) Anomaly Advisor

Netdata’s new Anomaly Advisor feature lets you quickly identify potentially anomalous metrics during a particular timeline of interest. This results in considerably speeding up your troubleshooting workflow and saving valuable time when faced with an outage or issue you are trying to root cause.

A Guide To Understanding The Different Types Of POS Systems

As a business owner, you know that a POS system is vital for your operations. But what you may not know is that there are different types of POS systems available on the market, each with its own unique set of features and benefits. Here, we'll break down the different types of POS systems so that you can choose the right one for your business.

Choose The Right Lighting For Your Business With These Tips

When it comes to running a business, there are many different factors that you need to take into account. One of the most important is the lighting in your space. The wrong type of lighting can make your employees and customers uncomfortable and can even be dangerous. This blog post will discuss some tips for choosing the right lighting for your business.
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4 Database Access-Control Methods to Automate

Regardless of which role a person has in an organization, they will always need access to one or more databases to be able to perform the functions of their job. Whether that person is a cashier at McDonald's or a technical account manager supporting a Fortune 500 company, data entry and retrieval is core to the services they provide.

Build or Buy? Developer Productivity vs. Flexibility

A common debate in software development focuses on whether to use already-available tools or services, which offer better developer productivity, or stick with lower-level tools or custom-built solutions, which offer more control and potentially better performance and flexibility. This can be boiled down to the decision of whether to build or buy. These two approaches are at the root of many current tech industry ideological conflicts.

Building Efficient Pipelines in Cribl Stream

An old colleague of mine once said to me, “It doesn’t matter how inefficiently something DOESN’T work.” This was a joke used to make a point, so it stuck with me. It also made me consider that it does matter how efficiently something DOES work. Sometimes, when we have tools like Cribl Stream making things like routing, reducing, and transforming data so easy, we can forget that there might be a more efficient way to do it.

5 Ways An SDI Platform Can Improve The Performance Of Your Applications

Improving the performance of applications and workloads that employees and customers engage with can have direct benefits to an organisation’s productivity and profit. In this blog we look at 5 ways that an SDI platform which offers private connectivity can help IT teams streamline networking activities and navigate performance challenges very quickly.

What Is the Major Difference Between Preventive and Corrective Maintenance?

Lots of organizations are in a dilemma about which type of maintenance they should use in their business. In this blog, we will know what preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance are and what are the differences between them! So, without wasting any time, let us begin!