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Cross-functional collaboration: Why marketing is perfectly placed to set the example in a distributed, hybrid world

Running successful cross-functional projects, when teams are no longer co-located in the same physical space, requires a different approach. Read on to find out how we used this as an opportunity to improve how the Marketing Division at Redgate collaborates with other parts of the business and how you can apply some of our learnings in your own organization.

Adding Super Fast Frontend Search in Rails with Lunr

This is the first part of a multi-part post focusing (mostly) on front end search and Command Palettes. If you are not familiar with Command Palettes, they are a power-user's dream: a universal overlay on your webpage that's triggered with a key shortcut (usually Command + K) and allows your users not only to search the content but also perform actions on your website. The goal here is to "keep the user's hands on the keyboard" (and away from the mouse), when using your application.

Alert Fatigue in SRE: What It Is & How To Avoid It

Wondering about alert fatigue? We describe what it is, how it affects software development teams, and how to avoid it. What is alert fatigue? Alert fatigue is the phenomenon of employees becoming desensitized to alert messages because of the overwhelming volume they receive, and the number of false positives they receive. The risk with alert fatigue is that important information will be overlooked or ignored.

JFrog Discloses 5 Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities in PJSIP - A Popular Multimedia Library

JFrog’s Security Research team is constantly looking for new and previously unknown security vulnerabilities in popular open-source projects to help improve their security posture. As part of this effort, we recently discovered 5 security vulnerabilities in PJSIP, a widely used open-source multimedia communication library developed by Teluu. By triggering these newly discovered vulnerabilities, an attacker can cause arbitrary code execution in the application that uses the PJSIP library.

4 Tips To Improve Your Company's Cloud Visibility

The struggle for better cloud visibility is common amongst software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies. SaaS applications are more complex than on-premise solutions by nature — there is a lot more surface area to consider. Distributed and multi-tenant systems are inherently more complex. Distributed systems, as often found in cloud architectures, are generally scaled out horizontally much more so than traditional single instance applications.

How Your Cloud Application Monitoring Data Can Help You Make Clearer Business Decisions

Companies are increasingly adopting cloud services. They’re cost-efficient, scalable, and give you time to market by getting your ideas out there as quickly as possible. However, cloud services don’t have extensive, in-built cloud application monitoring. This is where Netreo steps in. Let’s take a look at what cloud computing is. After that, we’ll dive into cloud application monitoring and how it affects business decisions.

5 questions about Ansible that Elastic Observability can answer

While automating systems is seen as an imperative in boardrooms around the globe, automation teams — the teams on the ground — often lack the data to help them to industrialize their automation efforts and move from ad-hoc automation to strategic automation. In this automation-focused blog post, we will show how to instrument infrastructure automation with Elastic Observability.

Cloud Governance: What It Is and Why You Need It

Every company exerts some level of effort to manage costs, performance, and risk in their hybrid cloud environment. But to ensure that those activities are performed consistently and efficiently across the board, you need a framework of policies, processes, controls, and tracking. In other words, you need cloud governance.

Enabling simple, cost-effective Kubernetes on IBM Z with MicroK8s

Containerisation has transformed the enterprise IT landscape, driving faster, more secure, and more predictable software delivery than ever before. Thanks to technologies like Docker, building containerised applications is easy, and many businesses are working with hundreds or even thousands of containers. To effectively deploy and manage all of these microservices, a container orchestration tool is essential, and Kubernetes is the leading solution.