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How to Solve Network Cases Like a Super Sleuth With Auvik TrafficInsights

Today, 94% of enterprises use a cloud service in some capacity, and by 2020, 83% of entire enterprise workloads will be stored in the cloud. For MSPs, this presents a huge challenge: The network—and a strong internet connection—is now your clients’ lifeline to everything their employees use and need to get things done. 100% uptime is now more than an expectation—it’s mandatory.

A look back at Dash 2019: Two days of talks, workshops, and community

Thanks to all who attended our second annual Dash conference! We hope that you enjoyed your time with us at New York City’s Chelsea Piers, and that you were able to learn about building and scaling systems and teams in our breakout sessions and workshops. For those of you who were unable to attend, we hope to see you next year. Check out some of the highlights from our two-day conference below.

What if I called FLUSHALL on your Redis instance?

At Honeybadger, we use Redis a lot. It's our Swiss Army Knife; it's a cache, a single source of truth, it stores background jobs, and more. Basically, Redis is one of those services that should never fail. I was pondering the DevOps apocalypse recently, as one does (could Redis be one of the four horsemen?), which led me to jump into our #ops channel to ask Ben a simple question: what are the risks if someone executed flushall on our redis instances?

Operational Controls at the BBC

The BBC is the world's largest broadcaster, and is home to a wide range of popular services. Ensuring service availability is a key concern of the BBCs product teams, and they’ve invested in operational controls to help them achieve this. Their portfolio is comprised of thousands of services that communicate together to deliver live TV and radio, on-demand content, and a vast high-traffic website.