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Website Load Time in 2020: How Fast Is Fast Enough?

Today, in the fast-paced digital world, it’s crucial for organizations to develop websites that provide a seamless web experience to the users. Companies are investing in tools and infrastructure to ensure their site’s performance is monitored constantly and optimized in real time. Loading time is one of the critical components with an impact on the user experience.

Event in Review: MIT Sloan CIO Digital Learning Series - The Post-Pandemic Enterprise

Last month, Catchpoint’s CEO, Mehdi Daoudi, took part in episode 3 of the MIT Sloan CIO Digital Learning Series focused on the post-pandemic workplace and customer experience. Episode 4, which took place over Zoom on Wednesday, September 9th, picked up where last month left off with a candid discussion between business leaders, consultants and MIT academics about the ongoing challenges enterprise is experiencing due to COVID-19 and how business leaders and others are handling them.

Monitoring infrastructure and microservices with Elastic Observability

Trends in the infrastructure and software space have changed the way we build and run software. As a result, we have started treating our infrastructure as code, which has helped us lower costs and get our products to market more quickly. These new architectures also give us the ability to test our software faster in production-like deployments, and generally deliver more stable and reproducible deployments.

The Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners (Part 2)

In Part 1 of our Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners, we gave a refresher on the fundamentals of AWS Lambda and what is AWS Lambda. In this post, we’ll look at AWS Lambda pricing, some interesting Lambda facts and examples of great AWS Lambda use cases in your serverless application.

Special IP Address Ranges and When to Use Them

By even casual observation, you’ll likely have noticed that there are several IP address ranges that are special, including: Anybody can use these “private” ranges for anything they like. But there are actually several other special ranges that have other special purposes. In this article, I’ll explain what they are and the purpose they serve. This is the “loopback” range. These are addresses that are assumed to be on the same device that’s sending the packet.

Stop the Crashes! Pharma Company Wisely Repairs IT Issues

A Gartner poll released earlier this year predicted that roughly half of all enterprise employees will likely work remotely (at least part of the time) post-COVID. That’s probably a welcomed sign for those that have settled into remote or hybrid work models, but surprisingly, businesses and institutions are still struggling to avoid major IT blunders that impact these digital workers.

How we use the Grafana GitHub plugin to track outstanding pull requests

First of all, we’re pleased to announce the first release of the GitHub data source. The source code is available at github.com/grafana/github-datasource. Contributions, feature requests, and bug reports are welcome. Using the GitHub data source, Grafana users can visualize data from GitHub’s API. In this blog, we’ll go over some use cases for this handy plugin.

The Diagnose: How Support Works at AppSignal

Setting up AppSignal isn’t as complex as rocket science. Developer experience is really important to us, as AppSignal started as a way to scratch our itch. We also put a lot of effort in providing you with a first-class developer support. In fact, our developers are the ones answering all of your your technical questions. This is why we’ve added a diagnose tool to our Node.js integration.

Introducing Multiple Shipping Tokens for Logz.io Accounts

We’re excited to share that we’ve revamped our Shipping Tokens feature! If you’re a Logz.io user, you’re familiar with the key role tokens play in shipping and protecting your data. As a form of virtual identification, tokens help us properly attribute data to the right account. They are required in a variety use cases such as log shipping, API access, and read access. And in addition, they are also mandatory for compliance.

Experience Everywhere: IWC and Engage

IWC is a Swiss luxury watchmaker that has been creating masterpieces since 1868. Of course, in recent months, and like so many businesses, IWC has had to adapt to the demands of a much more flexible and dispersed workforce. In this environment, IT’s capacity to communicate directly with employees is more important than ever. Fortunately, IWC was already using Nexthink Engage to reach out to its user base. Here, Ramon Hartmann explains how Engage makes a difference at the company, and why it’s superior to all standard modes of internal communication.