“I can’t get this website to load.” As common help requests go, this sort of ticket can cause any tech to roll their eyes in anticipation of wasting time on a wild goose chase. If example.com isn’t working for one of your users, it could be caused by any of a dozen or more points of failure—everything from the user making a simple typo to a major Internet outage.
Looking to build your basic IT knowledge in 2022? In this post we'll cover some general network monitoring and network management best practices that MSPs and IT departments use to support their organizations. Any discussion about IT is eventually going to lead towards network monitoring and management. All told, one of the most well-understood roles of an IT department or IT provider is that of keeping a business’ essential systems up and running.
Microservice is now the architecture of choice for many developers when crafting cloud-native applications. A microservices application is a collection of loosely coupled services that communicate with each other, enhancing collaboration, maintainability, scalability, and deployment. There are several options for enabling this communication between microservices. REST is the most popular among developers, sometimes used synonymously with APIs. However, gRPC can be a better alternative to REST.
In this article, we will explore the main metrics of a GitHub repository and why it is important to monitor them. We will learn how to get GitHub data in a convenient format, process, then visualize it for further analysis. Finally, we will analyze the main advantages of using data monitoring tools such as Hosted Graphite and Grafana by MetricFire.
Welcome to the 7th edition of Open Source Matters: our regular publication about the latest happenings in open source! Let’s dive into the news.
The U.S. federal government knows it has not kept pace with technology innovation. Recent legislation and a $1 billion modernization fund aim to bring the federal government up-to-date. What does government digital transformation mean, and what are federal IT leaders doing to modernize their agency’s IT?
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One of the most well-known and commonly used open-source operating systems is Linux. It's a clone of UNIX, however unlike UNIX, it's free to download and use. Despite being an open-source operating system, it has a safe and resilient architecture, and many individuals and companies rely on it. You can, interestingly, make your own Linux version. You can accomplish so by simply downloading Linux and making the necessary adjustments. In essence, we can distinguish them as different Linux versions.
When you think of who uses feature flags, your mind most likely goes to developers. In general, feature flags are closely associated with software engineering. But Site Reliability Engineers, too, can benefit from feature flags. SREs may not be the ones to create feature flags, but they should work closely with developers to ensure that the applications their teams support include feature flags.
