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Recipe for Great In-Person Events: 5 Key DO's and DON'Ts

For the last couple of years, most of us have been working from spare rooms, bar stools at our kitchen islands, the couch, and even garages retrofitted into home offices. The pandemic has changed the world of work forever. It has also dramatically changed the world of networking and events. Since March of 2020, we’ve seen networking move to virtual spaces in the following forms: Many have spent a significant amount of time and energy building up their digital presence in the last two years.

Alloy Software Honored as Gold Stevie Award Winner in 2022 American Business Awards

New Jersey, April 29th, 2022 – We are happy to share that Alloy Software, a leading provider of IT Service Management and Asset Management solutions, was named the winner of a Gold Stevie® American Business Award in the IT Service Management Solution category, for the second time in a row! The judges praised Alloy Software for its impressive achievements, complimented the refreshed appearance of the new product version, and valued the remarkable good timing of added single sign-on options.

How to Monitor Redis with OpenTelemetry

We’re excited to announce that we’ve recently contributed Redis monitoring support to the OpenTelemetry collector. You can check it out here! You can utilize this receiver in conjunction with any OTel collector: including the contrib collector, the observIQ’s distribution of the collector, as well as Google’s Ops Agent, as a few examples.

Implementing access control policies in CI/CD pipelines

Imagine yourself in this situation: You are a motivated and skilled DevOps or DevEx engineer. You have a plan to implement automated, complete CI/CD pipelines. You know how to do it, and you know how the extra productivity and automation will benefit your team and the whole company. But the project is never approved, because of security concerns. Many organizations, especially those in regulated industries, have strict requirements for releasing their software, and rightfully so.

Continuous deployment of a Nest.js application to Heroku

If you have been around for a while in the field of software development, especially web development, then you know how tedious and stressful it has historically been to deploy your source code to a webserver. Most of the time, this was accomplished by uploading it using File Transfer Protocol (FTP). But now we have numerous ways of automating the deployment process. In this tutorial, we will learn how to set up continuous deployment of a Nest.js application to Heroku using CircleCI.

What Data Types Does SQL Server Support?

There are many types of data compatible with SQL Server, and it’s important to understand what they are to avoid issues with non-compatible data types. Understanding the compatible data types is also fundamental to understanding the data type precedence, which determines what type of data will result when working with objects of two different types.

Increasing Productivity Through University Software (Leveraging Campus Management Software)

University software can help to elevate the productivity of all stakeholders. Higher education organizations are using campus management software to build a virtual environment for productivity. From team communication to student support, university management software creates a centralized virtual environment for all stakeholders at the university to thrive.

Serverless360 for Azure Integration Solutions

Microsoft Azure is a fantastic platform that allows customers to access many cloud resources that customers can then connect to solve business problems. There is enormous power in the platform, and it’s like having your giant box of Lego bricks, which you can build into any solution. The challenge with a platform in which you can build anything you want is that when your application is built, the platform view makes it difficult to create a way for your non-cloud experts to support the end solution.