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How To Protect Against Malicious Code

Malicious code, also known as malware, is any piece of software that deliberately damages your systems or causes them to malfunction (as opposed to a software bug that may unintentionally do these things). The reasons for this may be simple mischievousness, curiosity, or a proof of skill for bragging rights.

Add a New Discovery Source For Virtual Machines With InvGate Insight's VMWare Integration

Discovery sources periodically run network analyses to identify devices in your IT environment, ensuring your asset inventory is updated and reliable. It is a fundamental function of any robust IT Asset Management (ITAM) tool. For this reason, we are eager to announce that InvGate Insight now integrates with VMWare! This means that now you can automatically discover and integrate ESXis and vCenters and incorporate them into your inventory without the need to download an individual agent on each one.

How to optimize for Google's new Core Web Vital INP

Effective March 12, 2024, Google replaced the First Input Delay (FID) metric with Interaction to Next Paint (INP) as a part of its Core Web Vitals. This change marks a significant shift in how web interactivity is measured, reflecting a more comprehensive view of user experience. This blog explores INP, strategies for optimization, and asks if FID is still a valuable metric.

Lessons learned after migrating Azure Functions to Isolated Functions on .NET 8

The In-process model of running Azure Functions is being retired in favor of the Isolated model in two years. A lot of components on elmah.io are running on Azure Functions. To ensure we are running on the most modern and supported platform (also in two years), we have spent quite some time migrating from In-process to Isolated functions. In this post, I'll share both a checklist to help you do the same as well as some of the lessons learned we had during the migration.

Unlocking Smiles: HappyCo's Observability Success

With a diverse range of applications, HappyCo sought to advance their system investigations with a modern observability solution while embarking on an application refactor project. Since its start in 2011, HappyCo has experienced rapid growth through both organic expansion and strategic acquisitions. As a result, the company has a diverse range of applications for customers to smile about.

Waking Up Sleeping Cells: Ensuring Network Independence This July 4th

As we celebrate the American Independence Day, we’re reminded of the importance of freedom and efficiency in all aspects of life, including our telecommunications networks. Just as July 4th symbolizes breaking free from constraints, it’s time to liberate your network from the inefficiencies caused by sleeping cells.

Fix issues without user input with Session Replay

Dan Mindru is a Frontend Developer and Designer who is also the co-host of the Morning Maker Show. Dan is currently developing a number of applications including PageUI, Clobbr, and CrontTool. “Hey, can you give me the steps to repro?” This is the message I never want to send but end up sending way too often. And the answer?

Identify anomalies, outlier detection, forecasting: How Grafana Cloud uses AI/ML to make observability easier

At Grafana Labs, our No. 1 approach when building AI/ML tools is to enable humans (a.k.a. all of us!) to understand complex systems. In other words, we want to make observability still human, but less complicated. (Our second use case? Making social media more fun.) We believe that AI/ML tools in observability should work towards minimizing toil and the need for everyone in your organization to have the same deep domain knowledge about your increasingly complex stack.