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Error Management in Node.js Applications

No one is perfect in this world including machines. None of our days pass without having errors faced in our professional life. Whenever we are facing any issues/errors while working rather than worrying, let us all fix our mind like we are going to learn something new. This will make your tasks easier. One of our friend Error Handling will help us in fighting with these errors. These reduce our pressure by finding the errors and guide us to achieve the desired output.

A Guide to Monitoring AWS Lambda Metrics with Prometheus & Logz.io

In this post we will discuss some key considerations and strategies to monitor your AWS Lambda functions. This will include: which Lambda metrics you’ll want to monitor, how to collect AWS Lambda metrics with Prometheus and Logz.io, how to create a monitoring dashboard with alerts, and how to search and visualize your metrics.

Dashboarding Enterprise IT Tools with PowerShell

SquaredUp’s PowerShell visualizations provide limitless extensibility when it comes to visualizing your data. You can connect, manipulate, correlate, calculate, and visualize any data set from any tool into compelling metrics; but did you know you can also load third party PowerShell modules, compare metrics from SCOM and other data sources on the fly, visualize log files, connect to any database, and much more?

Why Would You Pay for Flyway?

Flyway is an open-source database deployment tool that also includes a paid tier called Teams. Since it’s open-source, you can just download Flyway and run it for free. You’ll get a robust DevOps tool to assist you in deploying your databases just like you deploy your code. It just works. So, why would you even bother to pay for Teams? Actually, there are a number of reasons why people pay for advanced tiers of open-source software in general.

IoT at your home, work, or data center with Prometheus metrics and Grafana Cloud

We recently had a hackathon at Grafana Labs. Anyone who wanted could get several work days without normal responsibilities to do whatever they found meaningful in the wider Grafana community and/or Grafana Labs commercial offerings. This allowed me to invest some time into Kraken, a project designed for reading out different sensors, and to update it for modern hardware and libraries.

Torq

Torq is a no-code automation platform that modernizes security and operations teams. With Torq, frontline security professionals can easily create automated flows that help them respond to threats faster, remediate risks automatically, and deliver better security to their teams.

MarketBuilder: How marketing can win you more consistent leads

Many managed services providers (MSPs) depend on word-of-mouth referrals to generate new customers and grow their business. And while relying on these can work to a degree—especially if your company provides outstanding customer service—it isn’t an ideal strategy if you want to really scale or grow. There are several serious downsides to relying solely on these types of referrals.

Data cataloging: A giraffe's eye view

In the latest DBAle podcast episode our hosts, Chris and Chris, tackled what they really mean by cataloging a database and how taking a ‘giraffe’s eye view’ approach to compliance is not enough. That’s because the most common data concerns for managers and execs center around where your sensitive data is, the risk it poses and, if you’re migrating to the cloud, how much sensitive data is being stored on that database or that instance.