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Moving Ahead: $85 Million in Funding and the Next Chapter in Our Journey

Patrick, Vincent and myself founded Nexthink because we believed in a future in which IT departments and employees work together to have a great digital experience. At that time, we observed that IT departments were traditionally focused on server, network and applications and often neglected the employee experience as a key driver for success and productivity. At best, organizations were reactive to support users, instead of proactively fixing issues before employees were impacted.

8 Features your e-commerce website must have to make it big

If you are running an online business, your sales will greatly depend on the quality and availability of your e-commerce website. While the quality of the product is equally important, it is your website that tempts potential consumers to buy your product. In an age when the majority of customers search and buy products or services online before visiting a store, the quality of your e-commerce website becomes more important in shaping public perception about your product.

The Next Great Thing in Rubber Duck Debugging

There's a line in the second Harry Potter film where a wizard named Mr. Weasley asks “Tell me, what exactly is the function of a rubber duck?” It’s a good question. Some acceptable answers: rubber ducks are for singing to in the bath, floating down a river as part of a creative fundraiser raise money, or to entertain your dog. Developers, however, have a completely different answer to Mr. Weasley's question.

9 Gifts for Your Stressed-Out MSP Colleagues

The sprint to the end of the year can be crazy for MSPs—new maintenance templates have to be made, calendars and expenses need to be updated in the PSA, and everyone has to mentally prepare for the in-laws to visit. Don’t let the Most Hectic Time of the Year affect your bottom line or the health of your team. These nine gadgets will help boost personal productivity, reduce stress, and eliminate distractions so you can help everyone stay focused and productive.

Understanding the Impact of the Kubernetes Security Flaw and Why DevSecOps is the Answer

It finally happened. At the start of DockerCon Europe and a week before KubeCon was set to take place in the U.S., researchers discovered the first major vulnerability within Kubernetes, the popular cloud container orchestration system.

Log Analysis and the Challenge of Processing Big Data

To stay competitive, companies who want to run an agile business need log analysis to navigate the complex world of Big Data in search of actionable insight. However, scouring through the apparently boundless data lakes to find meaningful info means treading troubled waters when appropriate tools are not employed. Best case scenario, data amounts to terabytes (hence the name “Big Data”), if not petabytes.

Tracking VueJS SPA user behaviour with Google Analytics

In the past I used to use the right tool for the right purpose. This led me to employ a lot of tools, and with most turning out to use subscription-based billing, increasing our costs much more that I would have hoped for. So, I adopted a new strategy: Use as few tools as possible, but use them as much as possible.

LogDNA Announces $25 Million Series B Investment Led By Emergence Capital

Stan Lee believed in the power of strength in numbers, that a group working together can create a force so powerful it’s unstoppable; from “X-Men” to “Avengers”, these teams had a pioneering spirit, heroic work ethics, and group thinking that surpasses individual brainpower almost every time. Today marks that day when the LogDNA superhero team becomes even stronger. I’m excited to announce that we have closed our Series B round of financing.

7 Cyber Security Tips for Small Businesses

Protecting your data, and that of your clients, should be central to all of your business practices. Customers entrust companies with often very sensitive data, and it should be used and stored safely. Cyber security should be a priority in companies of any size, but when you’re a small business without a big security budget, how do you keep yourself protected?

Handling Sensu Plugin handlers in Sensu Go

In case you missed it, Sensu Go is here! And, as I wrote about previously, one of the hurdles with migrating workloads from the original version of Sensu to Sensu Go are the changes in the internal event data structure. The existing handlers and mutators in the community maintained Sensu Plugins collection might not work as expected in Sensu Go because of these event data model changes. But friends, I’m here to tell you that we’ve got this problem licked.