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War rooms? Finger-pointing? We can help you.

Apr 23, 2025 By Catchpoint In Catchpoint
Say goodbye to late-night firefighting and endless finger-pointing. Explore how Catchpoint helps eliminate the need for “war rooms” by giving teams the visibility and insight they need to detect, diagnose, and resolve internet performance issues—before they impact users. Learn how Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) empowers IT, SRE, and DevOps teams to: Pinpoint root causes across the entire internet stack Collaborate effectively across teams and vendors Proactively prevent outages and performance degradation Replace reactive chaos with data-driven confidence.
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Running our test suite in parallel on GitHub actions

Apr 23, 2025 By Freek Van der Herten In Oh Dear
A couple of years ago, Laravel introduced a great feature which allows to run PHPUnit / Pest tests in parallel. This results in a big boost in performance. By default, it determines the concurrency level by taking a look at the number of CPU cores your machine has. So, if you're using a modern Mac that has 10 CPU cores, it will run 10 tests at the same time, greatly cutting down on the time your testsuite needs to run completely.
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Lifespan of TLS certificates is getting reduced to 47 days

Apr 23, 2025 By Mattias Geniar In Oh Dear
In a pretty significant shift for internet security and subsequently certificate management, the CA/Browser Forum has officially voted to reduce the maximum validity period of TLS certificates to just 47 days by March 15, 2029. This move aims to enhance digital security and trust across the web. But as these changes approach, it'll become increasingly crucial for organizations to understand their implications and prepare accordingly. Automation will likely become mandatory.
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Metrics Monitoring: The Only Guide You'll Need

Apr 23, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
When major tech companies maintain high availability while others struggle with frequent outages, the difference often comes down to one thing: effective metrics monitoring. This guide will walk you through everything you need to know about metrics monitoring, from fundamental concepts to advanced strategies.
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Traces & Spans: Observability Basics You Should Know

Apr 23, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
In modern software architecture, applications aren't just getting bigger—they're getting more distributed. With microservices, serverless functions, and containers running across multiple environments, understanding what's happening inside your systems can feel like trying to track a single raindrop in a storm. That's where traces and spans come in. These observability tools aren't just buzzwords—they're your secret weapon for making sense of complex distributed systems.
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Is hybrid collaboration causing you headaches?

Apr 23, 2025 By Mia Martello In Martello Technologies
Real-time collaboration and virtual meetings have become part of the basic fabric of how work gets done. Because different collaboration platforms do different things really well, most organizations tend to mix and match them to fit their requirements. Teams and Zoom are two of the most common pairings. A study commissioned by Zoom and conducted by the research firm, Metrigy found that 62% of companies use both.
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Need a better tool for managing hybrid collaboration environments?

Apr 23, 2025 By Mia Martello In Martello Technologies
If your clients are like most, they use multiple collaboration platforms to drive business and get work done. A common combo is Microsoft Teams and Zoom: over 60% of organizations use both, and together the two have a more than 80% share of the videoconferencing market. More platforms mean more complexity for you to manage — more parameters to watch, more tools to bounce between to keep an eye on things.
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How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability?

Apr 23, 2025 By Charity Majors In Honeycomb
I recently wrote an update to my old piece on the cost of observability, on how much you should spend on observability tooling. The answer, of course, is “it’s complicated.” Really, really complicated. Some observability platforms are approaching AWS levels of pricing complexity these days.
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Monitor Microservices Effectively: A Practical Guide

Apr 23, 2025 By Simona Omidkar In Icinga
Modern applications are often built using microservices: Small, independent components that work together. This makes systems more flexible and scalable, but also harder to monitor. In this guide, we’ll explain what microservice monitoring is, why it’s different from traditional approaches, and how to do it effectively. Whether you’re starting from scratch or improving an existing setup, this article will help you monitor microservices with confidence.
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How to Get Started with Grafana Infinity Data Source Plugin | Grafana Labs

Apr 23, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
In this Grafana Learning Journey supplementary video, Developer Advocate Marie Cruz shows how to start with the Grafana Infinity Data Source plugin, from installation to building a dashboard using CSV and JSON data. CHAPTERS Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.
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