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Monitor Azure DevOps workflows and pipelines with Datadog

Microsoft Azure DevOps is a leading platform for planning, building, and deploying code. We are excited to announce a new integration with Azure DevOps, which helps organizations see the full picture as they build and deploy dynamic applications. Teams can get new insights into their builds, releases, work items, and code events; understand how deployments impact application performance; and even halt bad updates automatically.

5 Application Development Trends for 2020

Over the past decade, there have been many innovations in the software development industry with new technologies like the cloud, microservices, and virtualization and new methods with DevOps and agile practices. With these advancements, we’ve seen a seismic shift in application development, from many apps being built for business users and desktops to the rise of consumer apps on mobile devices.

How One Insurer Enabled a Seamless End User Computing Experience for a Growing Remote Workforce

Learn more about how Goliath Technologies and IGEL enabled Penn National to gain end-to-end visibility into their virtual workspace environment, while providing anywhere, anytime access and availability to cloud-enabled digital workspaces.

Looking back at SCOM-Day 2019

This year was the first time that we, together with the team from Approved in Sweden, hosted the yearly SCOM-Day event in Gothenburg. This year's event was a great success for which we thank our sponsors and attendee's. As always, the day was packed with exciting sessions and numerous networking opportunities. We have gathered pictures and presentations from the event that you can find in the link below.

How to Use Broadway in Your Elixir Application

In today’s post, we will be covering the Elixir library named Broadway. This library is maintained by the kind folks at Plataformatec and allows us to create highly concurrent data processing pipelines with relative ease. After an overview of how Broadway works and when to use it, we’ll dive into a sample project where we’ll leverage Broadway to fetch temperature data from https://openweathermap.org/ in order to find the coldest city on earth.

Lynis security: monitoring a specialized computer suite

But does this mean that Pandora FMS is also into Lynis security? Well, its specialty is different… but yes, of course, it reaches everything covered by monitoring. In fact, flexibility is inherent to its name: FMS means Flexible Monitoring System and it is a tool with which you can save yourself many headaches, as well as tailor it to your needs!

From "Secondary Storage" To Just "Storage": A Tale of Lambdas, LZ4, and Garbage Collection

When we introduced Secondary Storage two years ago, it was a deliberate compromise between economy and performance. Compared to Honeycomb’s primary NVMe storage attached to dedicated servers, secondary storage let customers keep more data for less money. They could query over longer time ranges, but with a substantial performance penalty; queries which used secondary storage took many times longer to run than those which didn’t.

AWS Offers Deployment Flexibility, Machine Learning Scale, and Cloud Native Innovation at 2019 re:Invent

The 2019 AWS annual user conference, re:Invent, didn’t disappoint, with several intriguing announcements from the cloud giant. There was ample focus on Compute, with AWS Outposts and the new Graviton computing instances incorporating the ARM processing framework. There was also a renewed focus on AI and machine learning, as one would expect. Here’s my take on what this year’s show means for people working in IT operations and DevOps:

Why AIOps Has Become the Missing Link to Taming Network Infrastructures

December 12, 2019 It’s a perfect storm: infrastructure silos, increasing volumes of data, growing hybrid infrastructures, and mounting anomalies can bring down enterprise applications, or at least compromise availability or performance. These forces in combination have already outstripped the human capacity and intuition to solve infrastructure issues – which may occur routinely or unpredictably.