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Dealing with a flood of incidents, each with varying degrees of urgency, can be a daily struggle for Incident Response teams. Suppose a low-priority alert pings while you're tackling a critical incident. This pulls your focus away from the urgent issue. This constant alert bombardment can: How do engineers ensure that high-severity issues take precedence? Don't they want to avoid being bothered or bombarded with notifications while addressing critical matters? They sure do.

Ensuring your web application is accessible is not just about compliance; it's about inclusivity. Tools like Google Chrome's Lighthouse provide a starting point for accessibility checks. but integrating these checks into your development workflow can significantly enhance the quality of your product. This post explores how to perform automated accessibility checks using Playwright and Checkly, leveraging the power of the axe-core library.

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On this weeks' episode of The Debrief, we chatted with Jeff Forde, an Architect on the Platform Engineering team at Collectors. With a background spanning finance, healthcare, and various product-led startups, Forde has honed his expertise in DevOps, site reliability, and platform engineering. Beyond his professional life, he's also a dedicated volunteer first responder and certified fire instructor in Connecticut, offering him a unique perspective on managing incidents of all typesz.

Had enough of wading through alternative listings that leave you scratching your head? We feel your frustration! It's downright exasperating when recommendations are based solely on review counts, random algorithms, or pay-per-click arrangements. We've all seen it: a behemoth software editor inexplicably crowned as the top alternative to a network performance monitoring software, even though they have absolutely no shared features. It just doesn't add up!

multiple global locations One of the primary considerations when organizations search for a website monitoring solution is whether the solution can monitor websites from various locations. This feature not only aids in comprehending the availability and performance of their website across multiple global locations but also provides insight into the worldwide end-user experience of their website.

SOC 2 compliance requirements (Service Organization Controls Type 2) ensure that customer data stays private and secure — essential for any business that stores or processes sensitive data. In this blog, we’ll explore the specifics of SOC 2 compliance, and provide a solution to help you automate and enforce SOC 2 compliance going forward.

Efficient connectivity for stateful workloads such as databases across multiple Kubernetes clusters is crucial for effective multi-cluster deployments. The challenge lies in providing seamless communication between services deployed across these clusters. Calico Cluster mesh enhances Kubernetes’ native service discovery, allowing it to function across multiple Kubernetes clusters.