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UK Companies to Test Four-Day Work Week

Beginning in June, at least 30 companies in the United Kingdom will take part in a pilot of a four-day work week. Employees at these companies will work 32 hours per week rather than the standard 40, with no changes to their compensation or benefits. As the program progresses over a six-month trial period, researchers will analyze its effects on employee productivity, along with other variables including employee wellbeing and the environmental impact.

Getting Started with the InfluxDB API

This article was written by Nicolas Bohorquez. Scroll below for the author’s picture and bio. Time series databases, like InfluxDB, index data by time. They are very efficient at recording constant streams of data, like server metrics, application monitoring data, sensor reports, and any data containing a timestamp. Data in a time series database is always written with the most recent data values but with the previous values not updated.

Website Change Monitoring - What is it & why your business needs it?

Website change detection is a technique that alerts relevant people when a website is modified or updated. A web crawler can review a website on a regular basis to see whether there have been any changes since the previous time it was checked. Monitoring a web page is considered an important step in marketing, sales and advertising, and product support initiatives.

Upsun implements new EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs)

On June 4, 2021, the EU Commission released two new contract templates, both labeled Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs). The first template is for standard contractual clauses between controllers and processors under Article 28 of the GDPR, and its adoption is optional. The second template is for module-based standard contractual clauses for personal data transfers to non-adequate countries, and its adoption is required. With GDPR compliance as our top priority, Upsun has adopted both.

Tracing on the Race Track

Today is test day at Curborough Sprint Track, and the University of Nottingham’s Race Team is taking its creation out for a spin. Frankie is their fully electric 2WD vehicle, able to achieve speeds of up to 80mph (129 km/h). The Team uses Tracealyzer to test the functionality of their embedded software; while writing the code, to record the trace while Frankie is running, and to review the data afterwards. And with great results.

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What is MTTR? Resolve incidents faster through ops, alerting and documentation

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.

Monitor mainframe performance with mainstorconcept's offering in the Datadog Marketplace

mainstorconcept’s z/IRIS software provides performance monitoring solutions for IBM mainframe z/OS systems, so you can assess your mainframes’ health and their impact on mission-critical services. With support for OpenTelemetry, z/IRIS creates integrable observability data from your mainframe systems.

The startup guide to sensible incident management

If you’re working at an early stage startup and looking to get some good incident management foundations in place without investing excessive time and effort, this guide is quite literally for you. There’s an enormous amount of content available for organisations looking to import ‘gold standard’ incident management best practices – things like the PagerDuty Response site, the Atlassian incident management best practices, and the Google SRE book.

Support Database Technology Migration with Apache Kafka and Apache Kafka Connect

Aiven for Apache Kafka® Migrating from one database technology (such as PostgreSQL®) to another (such as MySQL) using batch has a variety of problems. Find out how to use Apache Kafka® to perform streaming updates, and keep the target continually in sync with the source.

How to monitor your uptime with OnlineOrNot

Jumping into monitoring software for the first time can be pretty overwhelming. If you're not in an exploring mood, it can be easy to get lost, and you're not entirely sure what all these knobs and buttons do. To help lighten this feeling for OnlineOrNot, I thought it might be useful to let folks know how I use OnlineOrNot, to monitor OnlineOrNot (as part of running OnlineOrNot day to day). Also, our friends at DebugBear wrote a similar article about how DebugBear uses DebugBear to keep their site fast.