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Catchpoint Detects 50% More End User Problems Than Dynatrace!

Consider this scenario, your internal application and system health is in green, but your end users are reporting accessibility/availability issues. Does such a monitoring strategy serve an actual purpose? A well-built APM and infrastructure monitoring solution like Dynatrace is great for internal system health.

Network traffic analysis tools for 2020

Galaxy: Milky Way. Planet: Earth, Solar System. Date: Year of the Rat, number 4718 from Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor. Spaceship: Pandora FMS Enterprise. Voyager 2 spaceship reports that its older twin sister is 20 hours, 46 minutes, and 19 seconds away from the blue planet at light speed. Radio waves travel almost at that speed, and although its plutonium reserve is depleted and the electronic components are almost frozen, despite all that, we receive signals from them.

Create your first website with serverless in 15 minutes

Alright, we talked the “serverless is awesome” talk but now it’s about time to walk the walk. In the light of us launching our brand new website, we thought it would be fun to show you how to create a serverless website from scratch. In the next 15 minutes, we’ll take you through the entire process of creating your first website running on serverless and you better believe it’s going to be awesome.

Proactive IT & The Future of Higher Education

Higher education is one of the many sectors facing the prospect of profound reorientation in the post-COVID-19 world. Following the government’s re-evaluation of approach, which saw students awarded predicted grades at A-level, many university leaders are concerned that taking on the extra, successful students would mean a stretch to resources – especially with social distancing and remote learning requirements needed to manage the spread of the virus.

Diagnosing Remote Desktop Application Performance Problems

With so much Work From Home (WFM) going on these days, system administrators likely have many people using Remote Desktop, hopefully through Remote Desktop Gateway, to access their work computers to accomplish their work. Usually Remote Desktop works great – it’s been tuned well and offers good performance. Sometimes it doesn’t and that’s when you need to investigate to figure out why. If several users are sharing a host, it’s possible the host is overloaded.

The Future of 5G and Website Monitoring

5G. You've likely heard a lot about it passing, but what kind of impact will the fifth generation of mobile technology have on your ability to provide a sturdy, fast website? What does this new tech mean for you? As businesses look for ways to integrate this new technology cost-effectively, a primary concern is website monitoring. Without an efficient website that holds up to 5G demands, you could potentially lose business and customer trust.

Capabilities of Elixir's Logger

Logs are an important part of your application and logging shouldn’t be one of the last things you think of. You should configure your log system, formatter, and style as soon as you start the development of your app. Also, do your best to document the process and share how it works with the rest of your team. In this article, we’re going to demonstrate how logs work in Elixir. We’ll jump into Elixir’s Logger module, which brings a lot of power to logging features.

How To Do Bulk Firmware Updates With NCM

As a network engineer, you're responsible for the uptime and stability of network infrastructure. One of the keys to keeping a happy and healthy network is making sure the devices are running firmware free of bugs and known issues. It may be tedious, but it's still relatively easy to do firmware upgrades if you only have one or two devices. But now, most environments have dozens of devices deployed at remote sites and branch offices. If you need to do a firmware upgrade on all of those, it's a whole different matter. This is where Network Configuration Manager can help by automating the normally manual process of firmware upgrades.