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The value of blameless culture - from IC to C-Suite

At CircleCI, CI has a second meaning: Continuous Improvement. We continuously seek out feedback not only to improve our code but to improve our processes and get better at our jobs along the way. This Continuous Improvement starts with one important company value: a blameless culture. Our blameless culture extends into every part of how we operate.

How to Automatically Suspend Inactive Accounts Using Torq

Contractors, freelancers, and other temporary workers have become essential parts of the modern enterprise. For IT and security teams, these individuals present unique challenges compared to full-time workers—and potential risks. The ‘offboarding’ process for these contractors is often less formal than bringing them on. Meaning, many just stop using their entitlements and accounts without actually closing them. These dormant accounts can pose serious risks to the organization.

Learn Effective Policy Compliance Management with Restorepoint

In the two previous blogs from this series, we showed you how Restorepoint enables you to minimize MTTR to mitigate the impact of change management and remediate after a network breach. The third and final blog of the series walks you through policy compliance management—demonstrating the value of creating a single pane of glass where you can see all relevant information from a single location.

Proactively Deliver a Better Microsoft Teams Experience

Legendary wine and spirit merchants Berry Brothers & Rudd arm their IT team with deep Microsoft Teams visibility to speed issue resolution and deliver an exceptional user experience. Berry Bros. & Rudd (BBR) is a family-run British wine and spirits merchant founded in London in 1698. Over the years, the company has grown to include six offices worldwide, including Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Monitoring your Windows performance metrics with hosted Graphite

Windows is the most popular operating system in the world. It powers not only personal computers and laptops at home but also enterprise servers and systems. Due to the vast use of the software, many solutions to monitor Windows have been developed. In this article, we will discuss an efficient way to monitor Windows and the reason why we want to track the metrics of the operating system. But before we start, check MetricFire.

Jira GitHub Integration

You can create a Jira GitHub integration through Git Integration for Jira. This tool will allow you to use smart commits, create branches and pull requests on your GitHub repositories directly from Jira, index repositories with webhooks, and more! Developed by Atlassian in 2002, Jira is a project management tool that aims to help software development teams effectively track their projects.

5 Simple Steps to Create Preview Environments on AWS with Qovery

The process of software development has changed radically. Development is fast-paced and needs testing and staging environments to reflect production accurately. Still, achieving this can be a significant operational hassle. Most engineering teams use a single staging environment, making it hard for developers to test their changes in isolation.

Take control of your telemetry data with Datadog Observability Pipelines

Many organizations manage applications that are supported by a large number of services in multiple environments, ranging from the cloud to their own data centers across the globe. As these organizations scale and accelerate service adoption, the volume of telemetry data in their environments multiplies every year.