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Kubernetes work queues are a great way to manage the prioritization and execution of long-running or expensive menial tasks. DigitalOcean managed Kubernetes services makes deploying a work queue straightforward. But what happens when your work queues don’t operate the way you expect? SolarWinds® Papertrail™ advanced log management complements the monitoring tools provided by DigitalOcean and simplifies both the debugging and root cause analysis process.

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS, formerly known as Internet Information Server) is an extensible web server software created by Microsoft for use with the Windows family. IIS supports various protocols, including HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP, and NNTP. According to the most recent ranking by W3Techs, Microsoft IIS is the second most popular web server technology behind Apache.

Although AWS Lambda is a blessing from the infrastructure perspective, while using it, we still have to face perhaps the least-wanted part of software development: debugging. In order to fix issues, we need to know what is causing them. In AWS Lambda that can be a curse. But we have a solution that could save you dozens of hours of time. TL;DR: Dashbird offers a shortcut to everything presented in this article.

One of our most exciting new projects at Splunk is coming to life. Over the past year, we have been hard at work putting together our vision: a place where Splunk admins, NOC/SOC teams, data analysts, and data scientists can collaborate, experiment, and operationalize their work, all in a single environment inside the Splunk ecosystem. We call it Splunk Machine Learning Environment (SMLE).

What is the usual criteria in choosing an online store? It should have reasonable prices, sell quality products, and most of all, it should have a fast loading time. A website’s performance is essential. A two-second delay can make a big difference to your website and revenue as well. In fact, Neil Patel reported that a mere second delay may cost an e-commerce site up to $2.5 million in sales annually.

“What’s that? You want me to send you a large video file or something? No, that’s not a problem, it’s actually easy, I’ll just stick it on Box. Or DropBox, or stick it on WeTransfer and then we’ll do a quick Zoom to go through it – what?

Three years ago, when we released Embedded Views into beta, we were excited to enable customers to share log lines in a customized way outside of our web application. However, it's become clear that the vast majority of our users prefer having the full functionality of our web application when exploring their logs rather than using an Embedded View.

Azure IoT Edge is a Microsoft Azure service that allows you to run containerized workloads on IoT devices. With IoT Edge and Azure IoT Hub, Azure’s device-management platform, organizations across science, manufacturing, energy production, and other industries can provision their IoT devices and workloads at the edge of their cloud networks for immediate in-unit computing, a necessity when running AI algorithms or parsing large datasets directly on IoT devices.

All IT support teams know that problem management is used to identify the root causes which help to permanently resolve recurring incidents and follows specific steps like: However, problem management still remains an underrated, underutilized process which is mostly used together with incident or change management process. Problem management, out of all the ITSM processes has one of the lowest adoption rates.