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Intro to Puppeteer and Checkly

A short introduction and overview to Puppeteer showing executions on both a local machine and Checkly, together with some considerations on how it fits in the current landscape of browser automation tool. Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome/Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Checkly is an active reliability platform bridging the gap between traditional monitoring and E2E testing, allowing you to automatically verify your API behaviour, as well as your key site transactions from one simple dashboard.

iGaming: Where Incident Management Meets Compliance

At times when players have multiple online choices and competition is fierce, safe betting and social responsibility is at the forefront of brand integrity. In fact, social responsibility has become a competitive edge for leading operators. Enter the era of the regulator. Regulation is now defining both the operator’s brand integrity and the player experience. Are online operators up to the regulation task? Some are, though some are not.

Introducing Kubernetes Enrichment Early Access

With more engineering teams adopting Kubernetes as their container orchestration platform, new challenges emerge in giving your entire team visibility into Kubernetes for monitoring, debugging, and deployment. We’ve heard consistent feedback from developers and infrastructure teams about the observability gaps that exist between underlying Kubernetes infrastructure and deployed services.

Five worthy reads: How augmented data management can pave the way for better decision-making

As there are more advances in data use, businesses must ensure they’re delivering value by utilizing all data sources present in their environments. Irrespective of the source of data, be it operational or transactional systems, smart devices, social media, video, or text, it’s what the business does with the data available that determines its value strategy.

Why Monitor Cloud and On-Premise Infrastructure together?

Data centers and cloud are undoubtedly an integral part of business continuity strategies of companies to run operations with a distributed workforce amid the lockdown successfully. The Covid-19 outbreak and the resultant work from home policies have pushed businesses across globe increase in adoption of cloud infrastructure services up by 80%. Managing the entire suite of enterprise technology is not easy for businesses that have several vendors on board.

Root Cause Analysis: Uptime.com Problem Solving Tools

You manage one of the world’s largest messaging platforms. It’s the middle of the afternoon and you are feeling confidence set in. Your company has recently beefed up its capacity, and performance has never been better. You’re about to step out for a late lunch when a drop in metrics starts triggering alarms. What do you do? *record scratch* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation…

Installing the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller using Helm

Helm, the Kubernetes package manager, revamps the way teams manage their Kubernetes resources and allows them to deploy applications in a consistent and reliable way. It is a valuable tool in a continuous delivery pipeline, with support for quick updates and rollbacks. At HAProxy Technologies, we offer Helm as the preferred method for installing the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller, and we’ll show you how to customize that installation to fit your use case.