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Better CI/CD with GitHub Actions and deployment tracking

Understanding the impact of each of your deployments is crucial, especially as they become increasingly frequent. Chances are, your team is either aiming to increase shipping velocity or has already started deploying "continuously" (which is to say, multiple times a day). The biggest tech teams at the likes of Amazon and Google deploy thousands of times daily, and Atlassian has found that 75% of enterprise DevOps teams call deployment frequency their most important success criteria. And while CD comes with a host of well-established benefits, it also introduces a heightened risk of introducing new errors and issues.

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meshIQ - Seeking Partners to Deliver Observability Across Integration MESH

In today's rapidly evolving technological and business landscapes, staying competitive requires more than just a great product or service. It demands a technological edge that can drive efficiency, innovation, and overall growth. This is where partnering comes into play - it's like turbocharging your business engine. Today, meshIQ is looking to turbocharge our sales teams, processes, and reach by adding power via partnerships.

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EXperience Level Agreements (XLA), the Next Step with SLAs

The importance of the network to businesses has increased over the years (obviously). Nowadays, they are the main way that work gets done - they're the main way anything gets done. Consequently, how organizations measure their performance needs to change as well. Rather than just focus on network availability or simple uptime, they need to dig deeper and monitor User Experience. EXperience Level Agreements (XLA) as opposed to the traditional Service-Level Agreements help them reach that goal.

10 Essential Office Security Upgrades for the Digital Age

In today's modern office environment, businesses are continually evolving their security measures, recognizing the importance of safeguarding sensitive data and assets. With the advent of technology, traditional security methods like locked file cabinets are being complemented and, in some cases, replaced by innovative solutions such as the smart lock for a file cabinet. Here, we will explore ten crucial office security upgrades that are essential in the digital age, each contributing to the protection of the company's data.

Improving Your Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is a newer addition to the Core Web Vital metrics intended to measure how real users perceive the responsiveness of modern web applications. Web Vitals Measurements like INP are becoming increasingly important as web applications and SPA’s run more JavaScript on the client side.

Utilizing Synthetic Testing in Networking (Synthetic Network Testing)

Network performance is the lifeblood of modern enterprises, underpinning everything from communication to data transfer, and even the smooth functioning of mission-critical applications. A single glitch can lead to downtime, productivity losses, and dissatisfied users. This is where synthetic testing steps into the spotlight as an invaluable tool for ensuring your network's reliability and resilience.

In engineering, DON'T BUILD FAST: Bill Kennedy - The Reliability Podcast

The Reliability podcast aims to speak with engineers who have worked on large, complex systems and glean through their learnings. What best practices should one imbibe? What are non-negotiable learnings to become better at a craft? What’s ‘engineering’ going to be like with the advent of AI? We answer these and more tracing personal journeys of engineers who have built stellar careers around decoding the innumerable intricacies of software engineering.

Planning and Baselining a Migration to Azure SQL

A migration from on-premises SQL Server to Azure SQL offers many customers a number of advantages. It can enable scalability, reduce costs, enhance security, ensure high availability, and simplifies maintenance. Many organizations are looking to equivalent cloud services to move on-prem workloads such as SQL databases to the cloud, freeing themselves from the overheads of purchasing, configuring and maintaining physical hardware and infrastructure.