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Apica

With initial testing and ongoing checks, Apica provides Service-level Assurance for critical business journeys, preventing loss of revenue, loss of productivity, and user dissatisfaction.

IT Ops' role in strengthening security and achieving compliance

It wouldn’t be Cybersecurity Awareness month without some spooky-themed blogs with language focused on Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD). Luckily, it’s the end of November now, and this isn’t that kind of blog, but what was true in October is still true today. I won’t tell you that you need to be afraid of bad actors infiltrating your security defenses and wreaking havoc in your infrastructure. Why? Because you are likely stressed enough already. Don’t you think?

Modernize Your Operations with Automated Incident Response

PagerDuty helps developers and IT professionals adopt full service ownership to ensure that those who go on call are 1) only interrupted by an alert when necessary, and 2) equipped with tools to remove the toil from managing incident response. Automating incident response increases developer and IT staff productivity, improves customer experience from service interruptions and unplanned downtime, and improves responder morale. Learn from PagerDuty customer Guidewire how Automated Incident Response can do all this for your teams.

How Sentry Fed the Code Observability Revolution at Shift

What happens when you have to evolve a monolithic application into a microservices architecture in order to scale a doubling Engineering staff while meeting the expectations of a growing business? Join Aaron Chu, Senior Director of Technical Operations and Karan Gupta, CTO at Shift, a modern tech company disrupting the used car industry, as they share Shift’s journey to define their Observability culture. They’ll walk through how Shift uses Sentry to ensure accountability and empower engineers to improve overall outcomes.

Day 2 Apps Deployed, the Database is on Fire

Use DevOps practices to deploy your database changes seamlessly! Join Robert Reeves of Liquibase and Melissa McKay of JFrog as they discuss the advantages of using tried and true DevOps methodologies and automation to keep your database driven application up and running in production. The 2021 State of DevOps Report tells us that elite performers are 3.4 times more likely to adopt database change management practices. DevOps is for everyone including our database professional friends.

Where's the best place to live as a DBA? | Infographic

Perhaps because so few of us have been able to travel recently, or perhaps because wanderlust is just good fun, we’ve been wondering as to where the best place to live is as a DBA. And not just where pays the most, or where the opportunities are, but where would truly be the best place to live day-to-day. Some of the findings might surprise you! If you live in any of the places mentioned, we’d love to hear about your experience of living there in a comment below.