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Keeping afloat during the flood of worker turnover

Almost four million U.S. workers a month are quitting their jobs. More than half of North American employees plan to look for a new position this year. And an alarming percentage of the workforce describe themselves as “burnt out.” Statistics like these are the shadow cast by the looming “talent turnover tsunami.” The pandemic has unmoored millions of people from their familiar patterns both at home and at work.

Is your CDN provider delivering the best value?

In case you haven’t noticed, video marketing is on fire right now with compelling statistics around this trend hard to ignore. And for good reason — everyone from large enterprises and educational institutions to community groups and entrepreneurs are incorporating richer content into their websites, such as images and videos. Hence, the importance of choosing a high-quality content delivery network (CDN) provider.

Install HAProxy on Ubuntu

Learn how to Install HAProxy on Ubuntu 20.04. Ubuntu 20.04 is a great choice for installing your HAProxy software load balancer. It’s a free Linux operating system that’s fast, secure, and best of all, it’s easy to use. One of the features that makes Ubuntu so accessible to even the newest of users is its package manager, apt , the Advanced Packaging Tool.

Projects Enhancements

Back in 2019, I introduced you to Skeddly Projects . Projects is a feature in Skeddly that allows you to separate actions, credentials, managed backup plans, and managed start/stop plans. Almost like a mini Skeddly account within an account. Over the last few months, Skeddly’s Projects feature has been significantly enhanced. And I’m going to tell you all about the wonderful new features within Skeddly Projects.

Freedom without Order is a Sure Path to Chaos

Maximizing spectrum efficiency is a challenge that operators have wrestled with for decades. And the challenge of optimizing spectrum planning and management is only magnified as networks become faster and more complex. Operators with a well thought-out plan can avoid significant waste and inefficiency in the network. Wavelength division multiplexing was originally constrained to a fixed grid, first at channel widths of 100GHz, and then, as lasers improved, at 50GHz.

DevOps & SRE Words Matter: How Our Language has Evolved

As the tech world changes, language changes with it. New technologies will always introduce new terms and descriptions to provide clear understanding. For example, the emergence of the cloud introduced language to describe the changing relationship between servers and clients. Then, of course, product providers will also dictate how their products are to be described, i.e. describing services as “cloud-native”.

Functional browser testing with Puppeteer

Most interactions with a web application occur at the browser. Users search items, fill forms, create shopping carts, log into their profiles, and perform many other tasks. Unit tests are great, but nothing beats testing an application by interacting with the user-facing frontend. In this tutorial, you will learn and demonstrate how to write tests for the browser using Puppeteer . You will then take this a step further by automating the testing process in a continuous integration flow.

VCs are Betting Big on Kubernetes: Here are 5 Reasons Why

I worked at Google for six years. Internally, you have no choice — you must use Kubernetes if you are deploying microservices and containers (it’s actually not called Kubernetes inside of Google, it’s called Borg). But what was once solely an internal project at Google has since been open-sourced, and has become one of the most talked-about technologies in software development and operations.

What Is Cloud Management? The Ultimate Guide

According to AWS, “Creating a software system is a lot like constructing a building. If the foundation is not solid, structural problems can undermine the integrity and function of the building.” This is especially true when it comes to the cloud. If an organization doesn’t effectively oversee key areas of its foundation, it’s likely the result is not going to be successful. When it comes to cloud management, we look at it through the lens of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.