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FlashDrive and Chia cryptocurrency

Chia cryptocurrency is based on Proof Of Space, and distribute tokens according to a mechanism called plotting. In the last weeks, we've seen a lot of new accounts trying to launch and operate Chia miners from FlashDrive's infrastructure. Most of those accounts where created with fake/stolen credit cards for the sole purpose of getting Chia coins for free.

Use the improved infrastructure list to track your hosts' health

Datadog’s infrastructure list provides a central, high-level view of every host in your environment and pulls together metadata and relevant metrics from across Datadog to help you get the full picture of each one. You can easily filter and sort the list using any host tags, letting you quickly view the status of the parts of your infrastructure you need.

15 Ways to Use the Uptime.com HTTP(S) Check Effectively

Uptime.com checks can test anytime, from anywhere, to catch the downtime incidents you need caught. With worldwide probes, or through private locations that monitor your internal network, we reliably detect outages and monitor performance across your websites, applications, servers and infrastructure. Read on to explore 15 use cases for the HTTP(S) check type. HTTP(S) checks validate if a server is up or down, while reducing the possibility of false positives.

Continuous deployment for Android libraries to Maven Central with Gradle

This article will take you through setting up CI/CD integration for building, testing, and publishing libraries to Maven Central using Gradle. With jCenter shutting down, Maven Central is once again the primary destination for all Android and Java libraries. Library publishers will need to port their libraries over to Maven Central to keep their libraries available after jCenter shuts down. This article focuses on CI/CD integration.

How Website Monitoring Can Help Improve the End-User Experience

Making your customers happy is essential in any industry, but it’s imperative for online businesses because the competition is only a few clicks away. If you want your customers to be satisfied, providing them a great user experience is essential. This is easier said than done, however. There are many approaches for organizations wanting to improve their user experience, and picking the right one can become overwhelming. We’re here to help.

What Does Modern Infrastructure Include and How Do You Monitor It?

Understanding modern software applications isn’t just a question of what; it’s also a question of why. Why do we choose to use a particular technology? How does that technology serve the overall business needs? And when you have a problem, how do you figure out what’s wrong? If you’re in the position of trying to understand a modern software application for the first time, these questions can seem unanswerable.