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Digital transformation—and its intended benefits, including flexibility, scalability, agility, cost control, and more—is enabled by cloud computing. You need all these things because, now more than ever, businesses and markets are highly dynamic. Sometimes it’s an opportunity you want to capitalize on. Other times it’s a threat, such as a disruptive competitor, or a challenge, like new regulatory requirements. Some things you see coming, and others take you by surprise.

Teams has become more than just a handy platform to send the odd chat message or drop documents over to a colleague. In fact, it’s become fundamental to the way organizations across the world operate. But does it tick every box for modern businesses? Nearly, yes.

At one particular time, a developer would spend a few months building a new feature. Then they’d go through the tedious soul-crushing effort of “integration.” That is, merging their changes into an upstream code repository, which had inevitably changed since they started their work. This task of Integration would often introduce bugs and, in some cases, might even be impossible or irrelevant, leading to months of lost work.

Today's applications are incredibly intricate and interconnected, often relying on numerous third-party services and libraries. With this complexity comes an increased likelihood of things going wrong. However, an error doesn't usually announce itself with great fanfare and a detailed explanation. More often than not, it shows up as an unexplained crash, a suspicious slowdown, or a surprising output. Error logging shines a spotlight on these problems.

AWS users usually assume that Northern Virginia, also referred to as US East (N. Virginia) and us-east-1, is the least reliable in terms of uptime. We analyzed AWS outage history in 2022 across regions to see if N. Virginia, indeed, had the most downtime. Then we reviewed and proved some of the theories as to why N. Virginia has the most outages.

Enterprises are accumulating more and more observability and security data in isolated silos, not much different than the dust and spare change under couches and chairs in your grandparent’s rarely-used living room. There is something of value in both examples, but the nature of the value is very unclear and hard to measure without a lot of effort.

Since we launched the new SquaredUp last Fall, our focus has been making it easier than it’s ever been to connect to any data source, build beautiful dashboards, and share them with anyone. Today we’re excited to announce a fully redesigned dashboarding experience that does just that. The new dashboarding experience remains backed by data mesh technology, which means your data stays where it lives – it’s simply stitched together and available on-tap from the source.

In this guide, I will deploy a Healthchecks instance on a VPS. Here’s the plan.

You’ve probably heard plenty of horror stories of unplanned website downtime wreaking havoc on businesses and costing companies thousands or even millions in lost revenue. So if you’re worried, we can’t blame you! Website downtime is usually a nightmare for any company relying on having a steady online presence. But not all downtime is bad. Scheduled, well-timed downtime can be a game-changer in keeping your site running smoothly and ensuring customer satisfaction.

You probably have been hearing a lot about automation and artificial intelligence (AI) these days, with a vision of some kind of AI-driven world that will take all of our jobs away. The reality is that there’s always too much work to do. AI and automation are more likely to help people get their jobs done more efficiently rather than take them away. Basic automation can have large returns for the network – and improve the quality of work.