Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

How to Test Website Speed: A Step by Step Tutorial on Measuring Page Load Times the Right Way

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that website speed is important to your viewers. It’s the first thing they experience after accessing your website. Your website speed is like an unsung hero that you don’t really notice when it works the way it should, but the second it doesn’t live up to the expectations of your users, they will immediately notice it.

AIOps in 2021 and Beyond: 5 Trends You Should Be Aware Of

As businesses become increasingly digital, IT operations now deal with more extensive and more complex data than before. Traditional tools and strategies might no longer be enough to help them cope with their growing workload. Hence, many organizations are tuning in to the various AIOps trends available. AIOps is short for Artificial Intelligence (AI) for IT Operations. This is where they use Machine Learning(ML) to enhance and automate IT functions.

Ruby on Rails Development Setup for Beginners

Today we will install Ruby on Rails (RoR) on a Debian Linux operating system (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS). With that said, RoR is compatible with other operating systems with just a few tweaks. This blog will assist you in installing RoR with a simple step-by-step process. Your installation may differ, for other operating systems refer to this site. I am new to developing and have been using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, a flavor of Debian Linux, for my projects.

How to Ensure Superior End-User Digital Experience in the Age of Work from Anywhere

Digital Experience Monitoring is becoming the norm as the pandemic forces employees to work remotely. Enterprises need to ensure a great end-user digital experience using techniques like Synthetics and Real User Monitoring (RUM). Let Microsoft 365 performance issues not hold you back to transition to a digital remote work future.

Full-stack monitoring for code-to-cloud visibility

Engineering teams are very used to talking about their tech stack as the technologies and tools used to build their application. Monitoring also has a stack, and full-stack monitoring is when you align each layer of your tech stack with a monitoring practice and weave a thread from every layer. True code-to-cloud visibility is only accomplished with full-stack monitoring, and necessary for long-term DevOps success.

The 7 Hues of DevOps

Purple teams. Blue, green, red, back, canary deploys. Golden signals and red metrics. There are oddly a lot of color adjectives used in DevOps terminology, and Dave and Chris cover them all in this episode. They will talk about the range of deployment strategies for modern applications. The various types of metrics used to monitor them, and the different approaches to understanding how much visibility is good enough.

Node.js's Underrated Combo: Passport and CASL

It’s easy to get lost with dozens of plugins and frameworks when starting a new project that requires basic authentication and authorization capabilities. It doesn’t have to be that way. In this article, we’re going to explore two valuable Node.js packages — Passport and CASL — that can help you boost the security of your application by providing both authentication and authorization functionality.