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Troubleshoot From Anywhere with PanSift

This article was written by Donal O Duibhir, Founder & CTO, PanSift. Scroll down for the author bio and photo. In 2015 I gave a brief talk at the Wireless LAN Professionals conference in Berlin about remotely troubleshooting client performance and Wi-Fi at scale. The solution I described then was rough and didn’t yet use a time series database (TSDB), but the requirements and goals are still valid and even more vital today.

8 Ways to Ensure a Greener Data Center

After becoming increasingly popular in the mid-2000s, cloud computing has revolutionized the data center industry. Aside from providing cost-savings, security, mobility, and scalability benefits, cloud computing was also expected to be more environmentally friendly than other data storing and processing methods. By being highly efficient, cloud operators can reduce the use of electricity and other materials that typically increase a data center’s carbon footprint.

Better Way To Write Async Function in Node/Express/Next - Handle catch(err) Only Once.

Avoid Writing a Lot of Try Catch by Catching The ‘catch()’ Just Once. How annoying it is to write a lot of try-catch for each async function in an express app? What if you never need to write a try catch block for all async functions and still be able to handle the errors?

Qoddi vs Heroku and AWS: what to choose as a Startup

You have many options when it comes to choosing a platform to deploy your app. In this article, we will compare AWS, Heroku, and Qoddi. Heroku is hosted on AWS, making Heroku, like Qovery for instance, nothing more than a management platform for AWS services. You can do everything you do on Heroku (or Qovery) directly with AWS for a lesser price but Heroku removes all the infrastructure management layer (or DevOps) you still need to have with AWS or any other cloud providers.

SCOM 2022: the most exciting updates

Technical Evangelist, SquaredUp Great news for the SCOM community – SCOM 2022 is here! SCOM isn’t going anywhere and it’s only getting better. We saw this proven in the Big SCOM Survey Results 2021 where more than half of respondents said they were going to increase their SCOM deployment to monitor more of their existing and new infrastructure.

Dedicated hosts for macOS are now available

Dedicated hosts for macOS are now available on CircleCI. This new layer of support is built exclusively for macOS and offers Apple developers unprecedented storage, security, and scalability on CircleCI. By reserving a dedicated host, teams can unlock access to a bare metal instance that provides exclusive access to an entire host machine for 24 hours.

Why you don't just buy tools to make DevOps happen

Matt Gordon is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and the Director of Data and Infrastructure at Rev.io. The sophisticated billing-as-a-service (BaaS) platform provides online billing software to communications companies, IoT businesses, and technology service providers. Matt’s role, first and foremost, involves keeping the lights on while at the same time overseeing many data-related projects, from architecture to performance tuning and DevOps implementation.

How To Detect and Prevent Zero-Day Vulnerabilities With Smart Infrastructure Monitoring Tool

“End of life, end of support, pandemic-induced shipping delays and remote work, scanning failures: It’s a recipe for a patching nightmare.”, federal cybersecurity CTO Matt Keller says. Ensuring a high level of security for your IT infrastructure and being sure you have not missed something is hard to arrange during these days. A zero-day exploit happens when hackers identify a software weakness or a security gap and take advantage of it to perform a cyberattack.