Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Large enterprises usually have more than 1,000 systems running. Even smaller organisations may have hundreds of applications in their public cloud spaces or on their servers. In this world of IT systems, application migrations are common for the following reasons: In addition to these three general motivations, there is a growing repatriation trend. The public cloud provides the optimal environment for most systems but not for all. For some systems, private cloud hosting can be more cost-efficient.

Three seconds is a very important number for website owners. They know that 50% of visitors will leave their website if it doesn’t load in that time. Website developers spend a lot of time optimizing and refactoring code so that it runs more quickly and provides a better user experience. User experience is something that monitoring only uptime won’t tell you. A website might be up, but if it takes 10 seconds to load, customers will bounce.

There is no denying that incident management is one of the most crucial processes concerning the service and business aspects of software deployment. Not having a robust system in place to address and remedy unfortunate incidents can lead to user dissatisfaction, which can ultimately take a toll on your business metrics. A suboptimal management system can also have adverse impacts internally if it prioritizes efficiency and speed of recovery to the point of neglecting employee well-being.

We are happy to announce that we are rolling out a completely rebuilt Pull Request (PR) creation experience. Over the last few months we've been building and testing an improved experience when creating a pull request and are excited to finally share it with you.

Welcome to the December 2022 edition of Open Source Matters. I’m your host, Ben Lloyd Pearson; let’s dive in!

As corporate budgets shrink worldwide, product and engineering leaders are making tough prioritization calls to focus on the initiatives that truly deliver business outcomes. They’re also looking at ways to optimize costs, especially those resulting from heavy manual processes. The Forrester Wave™: Value Stream Management Solutions, Q4 2022 could not have come at a more important time.