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Professional service management software is not a luxury for modern service businesses; it's a necessity that ensures greater profitability and growth potential. Professional service management tools are crucial for growing service businesses. As a service business owner, it's never been more important to consider investing in automation solutions to maximize the efficiency of your workforce.

Welcome to SigNal 08, and the last SigNal issue of 2021! 🥳 This month, we made numerous PRs improving our product experience, added new awesome contributors, and launched a new initiative to discover better UX for our users. We also crossed 500+ members on our Slack community! 🥳 Wrapping up 2021, let’s see what Humans at SigNoz were up to in the month of December!

This blog is a write up on one of the best webinars hosted by Serverless360, “Building a frictionless Azure Support Workflow”, presented by Michael Stephenson. In this session, Michael Stephenson, Microsoft Azure MVP, who has extensive experience coaching organizations to adopt Microsoft Azure successfully, will walk us through the Serverless360, highlighting the product capabilities to address the business challenges from an operational and support perspective.

AIOps myths and how to avoid them Gartner coined the term AIOps in 2016 to refer to the combining of “big data and machine learning to automate IT operations processes, including event correlation, anomaly detection and causality determination.” In the five years since, AIOps has grown leaps and bounds — last year, AIOps was at the peak of the Gartner hype cycle.

For many federal employees, the workplace has shifted from a traditional office setting to being at home—in a kitchen, bedroom, basement, or any spare desk in the house. With a physical workplace transformation of this nature, cybersecurity concerns come to the forefront. While most agencies have been diligent in addressing these concerns, how has your agency planned to secure its physical inventory?

There are many benefits to working with JFrog Artifactory as your private Docker registry, allowing you to store, share and deploy your binary artifacts in a single source of truth. This blog post will focus on using Artifactory in Kubernetes. Specifically, we’ll walk through the steps for configuring Kubernetes to pull images from Artifactory and most importantly – scale up! It will also describe how you can enable cluster-wide authenticated access to Artifactory behind the scenes.

When you work in tech, there are certain truths about the holiday season you can always count on. For example, you’ll be holding your breath up until New Years waiting to see if deals will come across the line. The end-of-year planning you intended to have done by December 31, will inevitably bleed into January. And, without a doubt, you’ll spend your holidays trying to explain to your relatives what exactly it is that you do.

It’s harder to understand and operate production systems in 2021 than it was in 2001. Why is that? Shouldn’t we have gotten better at this in the past two decades? There are valid reasons why it’s harder: The architecture of our systems has gotten a lot more sophisticated and complex over the past 20 years. We’re not running monoliths on a few beefy servers these days.

As we kick off the new year and our release of Shipa 1.5.0, dabbling in the art of the possible, what if it was possible to provide your developers with a single line of configuration to get their ideas into production. Shipa is an application and policy abstraction layer which easily integrates with your DevOps toolchains.

The success of your enterprise’s digital transformation relies in no small part on your hybrid cloud infrastructure, which SearchCloud Computing defines as “a cloud computing environment that uses a mix of on-premises, private cloud and third-party, public cloud services with orchestration between these platforms.” Because this infrastructure is not a homogeneous environment, migration, management, and optimization can be an ongoing challenge.