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The Hater's Guide to Dealing with Generative AI

Generative AI is having a bit of a moment—well, maybe more than just a bit. It’s an exciting time to be alive for a lot of people. But what if you see stories detailing a six month old AI firm with no revenue seeking a $2 billion valuation and feel something other than excitement in the pit of your stomach? Phillip Carter has an answer for you in his recent talk at Monitorama 2024. As he puts it, “you can keep being a hater, but you can also be super useful, too!”

Security Best Practices for Your Node.js Application

The widespread adoption of Node.js continues to grow, making it a prime target for XSS, DoS, and brute force attacks. Therefore, protecting your Node application from possible vulnerabilities and threats is crucial. In this guide, we'll uncover common security threats and explore best practices for preventing them. You don't have to be a cybersecurity expert to implement fundamental security measures for your Node.js application. So, are you ready? Let's go!

5 Best Wi-Fi Heat Mapping Tools + Guide

Wi-Fi has become an essential component of our daily life, allowing for seamless connectivity between several devices. However, maintaining the best possible Wi-Fi performance and coverage may be difficult, particularly in complicated settings like huge stadiums, universities, and workplaces. Wi-Fi heat mapping is useful in this situation.

On-Call Life: Setting Expectations

Imagine this: You’ve just been offered a new job in tech. Maybe it’s your first job right out of college, and you’ve only heard of being on-call in passing conversations up until this point. Or, perhaps you’ve been in tech your whole life but never had to be on-call until today. Or, maybe you’re contemplating whether on-call is for you because your company is dangling some extra cash (because, who doesn’t like extra money!).

Dealing with Mountains of IoT Data: An IIoT World Webinar Reflection

We’ve made the case many times that instrumentation is critical for understanding changes in the physical and virtual worlds. During this recent webinar, panelists discussed the challenges and opportunities of integrating IoT sensors into existing infrastructure, ensuring data quality and accuracy, and leveraging sensor data for operational efficiency and productivity.

10 tips for developing an effective monitoring strategy

As a software developer in training at Icinga, I’ve learned a lot about the nuances and importance of monitoring systems. Effective monitoring is critical for maintaining the health, performance and security of any infrastructure or application. Here are ten essential tips to help you develop an effective monitoring strategy.

Ribbon Cloud-Native IMS

Your traffic is growing, Your data is slowing Your voice network is bowing, under the stress Don’t get boxed in, avoid vendor lock in, Reliable voice services that drop-in Want a swift solution that costs you less? Enter Ribbon Cloud-Native IMS Four G, five G, we cover them all It's modern, secure on every protocol Micro services, multi-tenancy, Auto scaling and security, welcome network demands and be proud, get Today's network on tomorrow's cloud.

Navigating Kubernetes Contexts and Namespaces with kubectl

We all know that managing multiple Kubernetes clusters and their resources can be challenging. However, kubectl offers several context and namespace commands to simplify this process. This comprehensive guide will walk you through using various kubectl commands to manage your Kubernetes environments more efficiently.

Protect Your Organization with the Ideal Business Continuity Strategy

Do you have a Business Continuity Strategy? A successful business always has strategies to keep it running. But even with the best strategies, disruptions can always occur and cause losses. Natural disasters, pandemics, human error, fires, and other unpredictable events can potentially affect how you run your organization and serve customers. The best way to shield your business from the crippling effects of a crisis is to have a business continuity strategy.