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Building and utilizing modern applications now essentially requires APIs. They are a crucial component of every company's automated workflow, and as more customers depend on your APIs to power their applications, the demand for them to be trustworthy is growing. Your business will suffer if its performance, availability, or health degrades, thus proactive API monitoring is essential to ensure its dependability. We'll go through the most important API metrics in this article.

By the end of 2020, the IT Support team of Smartmatic - the world's leading company dedicated to the management and modernization of electoral processes - undertook a major transformation of its management of internal processes. It faced a well-known challenge: multiple internal tools dedicated to IT service management (ITSM) that carried high costs and inefficient workflows.

When people hear ‘microservices’ they often think about Kubernetes, which is a declarative container orchestrator. Because of its declarative nature, Kubernetes treats microservices as entities, which presents some challenges when it comes to troubleshooting. Let’s take a look at why troubleshooting microservices in a Kubernetes environment can be challenging, and some best practices for getting it right.

Sustainable technology has become a hot topic in the tech world over the past few years. From the escalating environmental impact of heat and water-intensive activities like crypto mining and chip production to carbon taxes to sustainability becoming a pillar in the AWS Well-Architected Framework, there’s plenty of issues to talk about, but conversations become marked quieter when you shift to discussing solutions.

Github’s, “Github Actions” CI/CD tooling is becoming an increasingly popular option for developers. I've personally worked with several Cycle users who are adopting Github Actions as part of their deployment solution and we've found that when pairing GH actions with Cycle it makes for a simple, yet powerful combination. Today we’ll stroll through a basic example of using Github Actions alongside the Cycle platform.

Kubernetes 1.25 is about to be released, and it comes packed with novelties! Where do we begin? This release brings 40 enhancements, on par with the 46 in Kubernetes 1.24 and 45 in Kubernetes 1.23. Of those 46 enhancements, 13 are graduating to Stable, 10 are existing features that keep improving, 15 are completely new, and two are deprecated features.

The latest 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Endpoint Management Tools report has been published! Here at Ivanti, we’re excited Gartner recognized us in the Leader quadrant for completeness of vision and ability to execute. 2022 marks the first time we’ve been recognized as a Leader, after Gartner named us their only Visionary in the UEM Magic Quadrant for 2021. But what does being named a “Leader” or a “Visionary” by Gartner really mean?

In the last 2 parts of this series around improving performance in your Django applications, we focused on database and code optimizations. In part 3, we will focus on ways to improve the frontend speed of our Django applications by using the following.

Debugging is a frequently performed task not just for general software developers but also for game developers. During a debugging process of a game, most issues can be identified by simulating a code walkthrough.

As companies evolve and grow, so do the number of applications, databases, devices, cloud locations, and users. Often, this comes from teams adding tools instead of replacing them. As security teams solve individual problems, this tool adoption leads to disorganization, digital chaos, data silos, and information overload. Even worse, it means organizations have no way to correlate data confidently. By centralizing log data, you can overcome the data silos that tool proliferation creates.