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3 Ways Educational Institutions Can Avoid IT Tool Sprawl

As more and more money enters the state and local government budgets from pandemic relief funds like The Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) program, the prospect of IT tool sprawl is becoming more prevalent than ever before. While the SLFRF program has presented enormous opportunities for state and local agencies, waste and fraud are almost a given, considering the amount of money being distributed to bolster agency systems.

Deploying web applications on Kubernetes with continuous integration

Containers and microservices have revolutionized the way applications are deployed on the cloud. Since its launch in 2014, Kubernetes has become a de-facto standard as a container orchestration tool. In this tutorial, you will learn how to deploy a Node.js application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).

Store and manage Datadog configurations as code with Performetriks' offering in the Datadog Marketplace

Performetriks is a service provider that specializes in assessing and improving application performance and security for enterprise clients. To streamline these processes, Performetriks offers frameworks for automation, benchmarking, and security testing, as well as tools that evaluate and improve application performance. This includes their Composer tool, an on-prem piece of software that allows teams to more efficiently manage monitoring settings by storing, tracking, and managing them as code.

USU intensifies cooperation with automotive group on software license management

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is expanding its cooperation with USU to optimize its group-wide software asset management (SAM). The current contract covers the migration of the existing solution for USU software asset management as SAM solution-as-a-service.

3 Pros and Cons of Amazon CloudWatch

Is your organization currently relying on Amazon CloudWatch for log management and log analytics in the cloud? While CloudWatch delivers on many promises for AWS infrastructure monitoring, it isn’t the only log analytics solution – and may not even be your best option. Fast-growing organizations should consider supplementing CloudWatch with innovative alternatives offering better performance at scale, superior cost economics, reduced complexity and enhanced data access in the cloud.

How intelligent Automation helps in simplifying the customer service experience?

When running a business, the most crucial aspect for any entrepreneur or organization is to provide an exceptional customer experience (CX) and grow the business efficiently. Not only designing the best product or services but also a lot of things that an organization needs to take care of for delivering quality CX. In today’s digital world, customer retention is as necessary as customer acquisition, and organizations are working towards this path.

How Grafana Mimir helped Pipedrive overcome Prometheus scalability limits

Karl-Martin Karlson has been working on Pipedrive’s observability team for more than four years, implementing and supporting several observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, Graylog, and New Relic. In sales, as in life, you can’t control your results — but you can control your actions. With that in mind, a team of sales professionals set out in 2010 to build a customer relationship management (CRM) tool that helps users visualize their sales processes and get more done.

Sleep through the night with self-healing infrastructure

What is self-healing infrastructure and why do you need it? The first part is easy; it’s exactly what the name implies. It’s a methodology for creating automation that allows systems to identify and repair errors and misconfigurations without any human action. The “why” is a little more complex, but, like self-healing infrastructure, is well worth the effort.