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Wait, Is Anyone QA'ing Your Software After You Release It? If Not, You Might Need a Service Owner.

Every software organization has long balanced the interlock between software developers and software quality assurance testers. While developers aim to build software to business requirements, it’s the QA team’s job to verify that they actually did.

The Business of Cybersecurity: How Security Programs Drive Business Results

Surprisingly, many organizations have yet to move beyond the traditional compliance-driven approach to cybersecurity. However, to address today’s risk of a cyber breach — which can lead to an organization’s data being compromised or a disruption to business operations — cybersecurity organizations need to focus on delivering the level of security required to protect corporate assets and align with the strategic goals and objectives of the business.

Transform the way you manage IT operations with the right network monitoring solution

Business-critical operations rely heavily on network performance. This means there’s a ton of pressure on IT teams to monitor the network effectively. There are numerous aspects to network monitoring, including virtual server monitoring, automation, baseline violation alerting, event logging, availability monitoring, and health monitoring.

A Gentle Introduction to Web Services With Go

When you're deciding on a technology to use for your project, it helps to have a broad understanding of your options. You may be tempted to build a web service in Go for performance reasons - but what would that code actually look like? How would it compare to languages like Ruby or JS? In this article, Ayooluwa Isaiah gives us a guided tour through the building blocks of go web services so you'll be well-informed.

Going from Consulting to SaaS

For many freelancers and small business owners, moving from consulting or freelance development work to operating a SaaS product is the Holy Grail. That makes sense: running a SaaS scales better and makes for a stable income. While there’s no guaranteed path to success, here’s what we learned taking AppSignal from a “20% time side-project” to a business serving thousands of developers around the globe. This article isn’t a blueprint.

From beta tester, to building the next-gen Civo platform

There are times in life that feel like they are detached from reality. Some call it divine intervention, others use more modern, hippie-ish ways to explain these moments. Call it what you will, nearly everyone has experienced some form of this occurrence. Some people have been short on cash and found a $50 note on the ground. Others have lost jobs only to find their dream job on the way to their car after getting walked out by security.

How To 'Translate' Grafana Dashboards from Graphite to Elasticsearch

Grafana is the de facto open source tool for visualizing metrics. Grafana supports many different backends for data sources and handles each one slightly differently. This blog post is geared towards helping convert Grafana dashboards from using the Graphite backend to using Elasticsearch as a metrics datasource. There are many similarities between how to use both as datasources and how to plot graphs around them, but there are also many differences that need to be accounted for.