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Applying Design Thinking to the Employee Experience

It’s highly likely that you’ve heard the term “design thinking” used in a business or product context this year. Telling your developers, your engineers, your company to apply “design thinking” to their projects is in vogue. But what exactly is “design thinking”? And how does it apply to today’s workforce and the modern business world?

Helpful Advice About Colocation Hosting

Host choice and the process of identifying the right data center for your company’s web hosting needs is one of the most challenging but essential decisions that you’ll have to make. It will depend a bit on how important the web component of your company is, but, in the modern era, it is highly likely that web will play a huge part of your company’s operations.

Monitor CoreDNS with Datadog

CoreDNS is a DNS server that can also provide service discovery for microservice-based applications. It’s the default DNS server in Kubernetes, providing name resolution and service discovery for the services operating in the cluster. CoreDNS is easily customizable, so you can define how it should act on each request beyond simply executing a DNS lookup.

Grafana Labs at KubeCon: Awesome Query Performance with Cortex

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Barcelona last week, Weaveworks’ Bryan Boreham and I did a deep-dive session on Cortex, an OSS Apache-licensed CNCF Sandbox project. A horizontally scalable, highly available, long term storage for Prometheus, Cortex powers Grafana Cloud’s hosted Prometheus. During our talk, we focused on the steps that we’ve taken to make Cortex’s query performance awesome.

THE NETWORK IS EVERYTHING: Bmore IT uses Auvik to ensure their clients are always connected.

Bmore IT is a managed service provider based in Gothenburg, Sweden. We're at a LAN party. In essence, everything is all about technology. It's about connecting people together, not only by our interests, but also by technology and by computers. So in essence network is everything.

OpsQ Observed Mode: Building a Culture of Trust for Modern Operational Intelligence

By 2021, IDC’s Worldwide CIO Agenda 2019 Predictions expects that 70% of CIOs will invest in machine learning and data science techniques for greater agility and innovation in IT operations management. In an AI-enabled future, enterprises will increasingly rely on advanced analytics to address a variety of IT operations use cases, including problem recognition, impact analysis, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and incident resolution.