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Introducing Opportunities & Experiments on WebPageTest: Take the Guesswork out of Performance

As many of you will know, Catchpoint and WebPageTest joined forces 18 months ago with the goal of building stronger alignment across the IT org to ensure performance issues can be caught in QA, staging and development, not just once new features are released to production.

N-central Custom Properties, if you're not using them, you should be

Over the years, I’ve spoken with many of our partners that use N-central, and it always amazes me how few leverage custom properties. Often when I explain one or two uses for them, their minds are immediately racing with other potential uses as well, so today we are going to look at some of the many uses for custom properties and how they can benefit the support and service you provide to your clients.

How We Create API Tokens Using Spring Boot

Have you ever wondered how much effort goes into providing a seamless authentication process on a platform such as the Qovery console? Needless to say, we do not take security or user experience lightly. That’s why we decided to combine SSO through our users’ Git provider accounts (GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket) with an external authentication service called Auth0.

KubeCon EU 2022 - Trends & Highlights

Kubecon EU returned to Spain. This time to Valencia, city of paella and horchata and, of course, a great place for big events. We had a great time meeting you all in person, and attending the talks. Here are our hot takes from the event. The main event started on Wednesday, but before that different co-located events took place: Ebpf Day, Cloud Native SecurityCon, and PrometheusDay among others. These events gathered a large number of attendees.

Will Microsoft's Latest Tool Transform Workflows for Developers?

At Microsoft’s 2022 Build Conference, which took place on May 24 through May 26, the tech juggernaut revealed a number of new technologies and iterations that are poised to impact the workplace and the world at large. One announcement in particular has already sparked major conversation among the developer community: the new Microsoft Dev Box.

What Are the Challenges Faced While Implementing Condition-Based Maintenance?

Condition-based maintenance is helpful to organizations as it helps in decreasing downtime. It is not easy to implement but once implemented successfully then this maintenance will provide several benefits. What are the challenges that occur while implementing condition-based maintenance and how can you overcome those challenges? That we will discuss in this blog, but first let us know what condition-based maintenance software is!

How To Build an Escalation Policy for Effective Incident Management

Regardless of your organization’s size, industry, or security measures, you will inevitably face IT incidents. But what do you do if an incident affects a critical system and your on-call responders can’t resolve it? Does your team have a set of clearly outlined next steps they should take to handle the issue? Answering these questions can be complicated, even more so for large organizations that rely on cloud-based services to fuel their IT environment.

Engineering Levels at Honeycomb: Avoiding the Scope Trap

It has been seven years since Rent the Runway posted their engineering ladder, kicking off a veritable trend of engineering teams open sourcing their ladders. Interestingly, nearly all of them seem to have coalesced around “area of scope” as a useful proxy for level. At first glance, “area of scope” does seem to make sense. Senior engineers should be able to work across larger areas of the organization. In addition, your area of influence should expand as you gain experience.

DX UIM Team Practices DevSecOps for Secure Development, Delivery, and Deployment

DevOps is a composition of enhanced engineering practices that reduce lead time and increase the frequency of delivery. The primary goal of DevOps is to ensure operations team members are engaged and collaborating with development from the very beginning of a project or product development. Within many enterprises, teams are being compelled to reassess the security of their DevOps implementations. Recent news on vulnerabilities like Sun Burst and Log4j underscore why this is so critical.

Security Teams Are Struggling, and Cribl Is Here to Help

Many cybersecurity teams are drinking from multiple firehoses without solutions in place to deal with the onslaught of data. And with 70 percent of companies experiencing over one hundred attacks each day, it’s not slowing down. Teams are overwhelmed with data from multiple sources and formats with continuous requests to pull in more and more.