Organizations around the world are starting to grasp the often harsh reality that their employees’ digital experiences have a direct impact on their bottom line. Indeed, with employees increasingly dealing with ever-changing digital devices, tools and processes, they are also inevitably exposed to new IT problems and frustrations.

By Des Nnochiri In essence, the nature of business comes down to different companies exchanging value with supplier, partners, and customers. By “value”, we mean goods, services, money, and data. This is the fundamental basis of any business and it has to do this effectively in order to make a profit and survive.

Apache Ambari is an open source management tool that helps organizations operate Hadoop clusters at scale. Ambari provides a web UI and REST API to help users configure, spin up, and monitor Hadoop clusters with one centralized platform. As your Hadoop deployment grows in size and complexity, you need deep visibility into your clusters as well as the Ambari servers that manage them. If issues arise in Ambari, it can lead to problems in your data pipelines and cripple your ability to manage clusters.

Log management solutions can make it easy to filter, aggregate, and analyze your log data. Whether you leverage JSON format or process your logs in order to extract attributes, you can slice and dice your logs using the information they provide such as timestamp, HTTP status code, or database user. But different technologies and data sources often label similar information differently, making it difficult to aggregate data across multiple sources.

Monitoring is an essential aspect of any IT system. System metrics such as CPU, RAM, disk usage, and network throughput are the basic building blocks of a monitoring setup. Nowadays, they are often supplemented by higher-level metrics that measure the performance of the application (or microservice) itself as seen by its users (human beings on the internet or other microservices in the same or different clusters).

We are delighted to announce the availability of Squared Up version 4.3, continuing our approach of bringing you frequent updates to the product. Version 4.2 was released just two months ago, and 4.1 two months before that. Each new release brings bug fixes, quality improvements and in this case some cool new features too. For a demo of these new features take a look at the webinar 'Squared Up – v4.3 Release'.

The recently discovered BlueKeep RDP vulnerability reminds us yet again (as if needed to be reminded) that monitoring RDP is not a luxury but an absolute necessity. Many organizations still expose RDP ports to the Internet, making it a prime target for attacks. But even when RDP is only available internally it can still pose a threat – especially for large networks.

In production, the most important advantage of using a build tool like webpack is a smaller size and thus improved overall application performance. Although beneficial for our users, the bundled and minified code is harder to debug for developers as the code they have written doesn't map 1:1 to error stack traces. Multiple tools for minifying, bundling and transpiring JavaScript modules can generate source maps along with the resulting code.

If You Build It, They Won’t Come: 5 Big, Scary and Costly e-Commerce Site Mistakes In the 1989 flick Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner turns his Iowa cornfield into a baseball field because a voice tells him: if you build it, he will come. The “he” in question is his late father, and the movie has a magical, uplifting ending that makes us want to dream again (and possibly, play baseball or eat some corn).