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Introducing GitKraken.dev: Everything GitKraken, Now In Your Browser

For almost a decade, GitKraken has been building developer-first Git productivity tools and services, with one clear goal: to make devs and their teams more effective and efficient. Our journey began with desktop-centric and IDE-based tools like GitKraken Client and GitLens for VS Code, which have both become integral to the workflow for tens of millions of developers. Our tools and capabilities are robust.

What is Open Access Research and Why It's a Good Thing

The birth of the internet gave way to infinite possibilities for researchers and students alike. By cutting costs to help employed people carry on learning, researchers also have an immense amount of data to manage. Enabling writers to publish and share their findings with the world while providing graduates with crucial information to support their chosen field of study, using the internet for research can be a huge benefit. However, you have to show caution with how websites handle your information.

The Advent of Monitoring, Day 5: Dealing With Third-Party Dependencies Causing False Positives for Synthetics

When we’re testing our apps, it's a big headache to simulate what the user goes through while steering clear of the more problematic parts of those processes. These parts, often external and beyond our control and responsibility, are usually not the focus of our testing. Think external services, third-party modules, or APIs. Relying on these unpredictable elements for our tests is a no-go. Nor do we want to rework our tests to check internal implementations just to dodge these issues.

How to Analyze Subscriber Behavior with Kentik

Learn how to analyze subscriber behavior using Kentik. In this post, we focus on the challenges and solutions of identifying and tracking the customers in an IP network while complying with regulations such as GDPR, show how Kentik Custom Dimensions and Data Explorer provide the analysis, and finally touch on how the associated APIs help automate and ease the entire process.

What is Mean Time to Resolution - and why does it matter?

Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) is a key performance indicator (KPI) that measures the average duration needed to restore normal operation for an application, service or piece of infrastructure component. Your MTTR directly impacts customer satisfaction, so you must have a keen understanding how it influences the reliability and availability of your services and applications to make informed decisions, enable operational efficiency, and ensure a seamless customer experience.

Top 10 Ephemeral Environments Solutions in 2024

Demand for robust and user-friendly Ephemeral Environment solutions has surged in 2023. Organizations, in pursuit of efficient software delivery are recognizing the pivotal role these solutions play in accelerating their development pipelines. This comprehensive guide aims to delve into the top ephemeral environment solutions worth considering in 2023, offering a detailed overview of their features, functionalities, and the benefits they bring to the table.

'The Story of Grafana' documentary: The community behind the code

How do you know that your open source project has been enthusiastically adopted by the community? A) Engineers give you a raucous standing ovation when a feature is revealed. B) People form a long line to meet you at an industry event. C) Every time there is a release, social media notifications blow up your phone. If you’re Grafana founder Torkel Ödegaard, the answer is D) all of the above.

The Debrief: Incident management for data teams

If you're on a data team, have you ever considered using an incident management tool to respond to pipeline issues? If the answer is no, then you might want to check out this episode. Here, we chat with Jack, Data Analyst at incident.io, to better understand why data teams can—and should—look to incident management tools like incident.io to manage issues. We chat about: Read Jack's blog post about incident management for data teams.

Adobe Experience Cloud Outage: The Impact of Relying on Third-party Services

On December 8, 2023, Adobe's extensive customer base was impacted by a series of outages in the Adobe Experience Cloud, starting from 8:00 AM EST and continuing until 1:45 AM EST on December 9. We haven't seen a third-party outage of this magnitude since the DoubleClick outage of 2018.