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Introducing WebPageTest by Catchpoint's First Free Web Performance Course

This week over at WebPageTest, we’re excited to be taking our first steps into the performance education space with our new completely free online course, Lightning-Fast Web Performance by WPT Senior Experience Engineer, Scott Jehl. This course is for you, whether you’re a DevOps engineer curious to learn more about WebPerf or you’re part of a front-end and QA team responsible for website optimization and lowering latency.

AudioCodes SBC Used for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing - Leveraging Performance Metrics

Microsoft Teams Phone has reached about 12 million users, with many Enterprises now in the process of considering and then deploying this functionality that comes with their E5 subscription. Moving to Teams Phone involves important changes in the IT and UC environment but enables a seamless experience for business lines reliant on Microsoft services.

Ninja's New Notification Channels Help You Reach Technicians Easier

Staying ahead of any issues can be the difference between a swift resolution or a catastrophe. At NinjaOne, we want to arm our partners with the tools to be alerted at a moment’s notice of any potential problems with their or their customers’ endpoints. This is why we built our new notification channels feature - to help technicians proactively manage their endpoints with critical alerts no matter where they are and regardless of what tools they use.

Kubernetes Load Testing: Speedscale vs NeoLoad

In this article, you’ll be introduced to two tools: Speedscale and NeoLoad. Both of these tools offer you a way to load test your applications. This post will compare their ease of setup, development experience, fit within a modern infrastructure, and integration into CI/CD. Load testing is not a new concept in any way: the term was common even before Google Trends started recording data in 2004.

8 reasons why network observability is critical for DDoS detection and mitigation

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been a continuous threat since the advent of the commercial internet. The struggle between security experts and DDoS protection is an asymmetrical war where $30 attacks can jeopardize millions of dollars for companies in downtime and breaches of contract. They can also be a smokescreen for something worse, such as the infiltration of malware.

Running the OpenTelemetry Collector in Azure Container Apps

In this post, we’ll look at how to host the OpenTelemetry Collector in Azure Container Apps. There are a few gotchas with how it’s deployed, so hopefully this will stop you from hitting the same issues. If you don’t care about the details and just want to run a script, I’ve created one here.

How to Manage Staging Environments to Speed Up Your Deployments By 5x

The staging environment plays a crucial role in product development. It's the last checkpoint before the product updates are live for customers. Every successful product has a robust and effective staging environment on the back. However, the traditional staging environments cannot keep pace with the modern CI/CD workflow. This article will go through how traditional shared and static staging environments hinder faster deployments and efficiency.

Automate testing for a Vue.js application

One of the leading frameworks in the JavaScript community, Vue.js is a progressive framework for building reusable components for the web user interface. Its intuitive API and robust flexibility for handling front-end logic are just two of the reasons that Vue has been adopted by developers worldwide. In this tutorial, I will lead you through building a simple listing application that shows the names and roles of users. I will show you how to write tests for the application.

Jenkins vs. Jenkins X: Which Automation Server Should You Choose?

Today’s DevOps teams can reach project goals quickly because they rely on continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD) tools that automate tasks. The problem is that there are tons of CI/CD tools out there. How do you know which one serves your team’s needs best? Jenkins stood out as a top contender for years after its release in 2011. More recently (2018), Jenkins X appeared as an alternative.