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Get going with Azure SQL Managed Instance MP in SCOM

Earlier this year Microsoft released a new Management Pack for Azure SQL Managed Instance - their new PaaS offering of SQL giving you all the benefits of traditional SQL without the hosting. We take a look at the new Management Pack: what it is, how it compares to the SQL version agnostic pack and how to set it up.

Configuration management database (CMDB) in ServiceDesk Plus

Learn how the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) works in ServiceDesk Plus, how to set up your own CMDB, and how it helps IT teams manage their IT infrastructure better. ServiceDesk Plus is an IT service management (#ITSM) software that helps organizations streamline their ticketing, and manage their IT efficiently, ensuring there's minimal downtime and top notch IT service delivery.  

Breaking Serverless Things on Purpose: Chaos Engineering in Stateless Environments - Emrah Samdan

Serverless enabled us to build highly distributed applications that led to more granular functions and ultimate scalability. However, it also brought the risk of failure from a single microservice to many serverless functions and resources. You might be able to predict and design for certain troublesome issues but there are many, many more that you probably will not be able to easily plan for. How do you build a resilient system under these highly distributed circumstances? The answer is Chaos Engineering: Breaking things on purpose just to experience how the whole system will react.