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An Inside Look at the Life of a Technical Writer at Grafana Labs

People think technical writing is boring, but sometimes documenting software is an adventure. It’s not an adventure like “whee, got my sword and shield, adventure time!” No, it’s more like taking a nice stroll down a path to an unfamiliar-but-known destination when the ground suddenly opens up under your feet. As you’re falling down into the depths, that’s when you realize you are about to have an adventure. I’m a technical writer at Grafana Labs.

Effective Profiling in Google Chrome

This blog post will explain how to effectively profile your website so that you can deal with performance pain points. We’ll go through the two most used tools in Google Chrome for profiling: Imagine that you optimized your backend and everything is running smoothly. However, for some reason, the load time of your pages is still unreasonably high. Your users might be experiencing sluggish UI and long load times. This post will help you sort these issues out.

Motivational Posters Are So '90s, Our Values Are Not

In typical San Francisco startup fashion, we have our own set of “these are the things we stand by” company values. While we don’t aspire to churning out motivational poster-style blurbs, we do want to accurately reflect what’s important to our mission and vision — the principles that drive these forward. And, ok… Yes, these will likely end up on a poster of sorts. Just not the motivational type. And with way better design work.

Release Webinar: SquaredUp 4.5

Join Chief Product Officer John Shaw for an in-depth tour of SquaredUp version 4.5. This release is jam packed with awesome product enhancements including our most requested SCOM feature to date: Dark Theme! John will showcase new features that span both the SCOM & Azure versions, including new log visualisations, and the ability to publish and share perspectives. The latest Azure specific updates include some cool new cost tile visualisations, alert donut and drilldown. As always, we've included lots of quality improvements too!

Goliath Technologies Makes Troubleshooting the End-User Experience Faster and Easier with Latest Release

Goliath Technologies announces the latest release of its industry-leading technology with enhanced embedded intelligence and automation, raising the bar for end-user performance monitoring and troubleshooting for environments built on Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop or VMware Horizon platforms, whether on-premises or in the cloud (e.g. AWS, Azure).

What is Continuous Application Improvement?

CAI stands for Continuous Application Improvement. It is a software improvement process that is implemented at each step of the SDLC, ensuring immediate feedback at each step rather than waiting till risk levels and impact has gone up. When you implement CAI you shift your improvement process as far left as possible and you catch software bugs and performance problems where they are introduced, eliminating countless hours of time spent chasing issues.

The Ultimate List of Digital Employee Experience Job Titles

Job titles are in constant flux these days, especially in the world of IT. While some can border on the bizarre and ambiguous (thinking of you, Mr. “Digital Sherpa” and “Software Ninja”) most titles reveal very specific clues about the nature of modern work and the changing demands of business. In the last few years, large enterprise companies have realized their digital employee experience is just as important as their digital customer experience.

Improving Kubernetes Clusters' Efficiency with Log Management

Log management plays an important role in helping to debug Kubernetes clusters, improve their efficiency, and monitor them for any suspicious activity. Kubernetes is an open-source cluster management software designed for the deployment, scaling, and operations of containerized applications.