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Peak Periods, Peak Performance: Catchpoint Launches Internet Resilience Program

In our latest announcement, we are thrilled to launch our Internet Resilience Program, previously known as Black Friday Assurance. This program provides on-demand access to a team of expert engineers to help ensure the performance and resilience of websites and applications during crucial events. While it’s evident why eCommerce companies find this program indispensable during peak holiday seasons, shopping events are not the only occasion when IT teams are stretched to the limit.

The balancing act of reliability and availability

As consumers, we expect the products and software we buy to work 100% of the time. Unfortunately, that’s impossible. Even the most reliable products and services experience some disruption in service. Crashes, bugs, timeouts. There are a ton of contributing factors, so it's impossible to distill disruptions down to a single cause. That said, technology is becoming more and more sophisticated, and so is the infrastructure that supports it.

Unleashing MVP Success with the FinOps Approach

Want to hear a sad but true fact? 70% of companies overshoot their cloud budgets. Why is that? Although the cloud is a mighty tool for speed, scalability, and innovation, the inability to see costs can lead companies to limit cloud usage, which hampers innovation and puts them at a disadvantage against the competition. Rather than limiting cloud usage, adopting the FinOps approach provides the insights you need to feel confident about your cloud costs.

Accelerating Decision Advantage of Command and Control with Mattermost

In the fast-paced, dynamic landscape of multi-domain operations, military commanders need to be able to make rapid, data-driven decisions and seamlessly coordinate units to achieve mission success. The multi-domain fight is incredibly complex, incorporating ground, air, space, and cyber, and as a result, has driven the evolution of traditional command and control (C2).

Understanding Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

Hello, and welcome to this deep dive into one of the most underappreciated yet profoundly useful technologies in the Windows operating system—Volume Shadow Copy Service, commonly known as VSS. Have you ever been caught in a situation where your computer crashes, and you lose hours, days, or even weeks of work? It’s a heart-stopping moment that most of us have unfortunately experienced. But here’s where VSS comes into play.

Announcing the Harvester v1.2.0 Release

Ten months have elapsed since we launched Harvester v1.1 back in October of last year. Harvester has since become an integral part of the Rancher platform, experiencing substantial growth within the community while gathering valuable user feedback along the way. Our dedicated team has been hard at work incorporating this feedback into our development process, and today, I am thrilled to introduce Harvester v1.2.0!

The Ultimate RDS Instance Types Guide: What You Need To Know

Amazon’s Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers a variety of database instances, which can be confusing at first. In this guide, we'll clarify what each RDS instance class, family, type, and size means in under 15 minutes. Let's start at the beginning.

Node.js Logging Tutorial

Node.js logging is an important part of supporting the complete application life cycle. From creation to debugging to planning new features, logs support us all the way. By analyzing the data in the logs, we can glean insights, resolve bugs much quicker, and detect problems early and as they happen. In this post, we will talk about the who, what, when, where, how, and why of Node.js logging. Later in this post, the “how” section will give insights into using code.

The hidden impact of cache locality on application performance

My favorite technical experience from grad school was all the cool ways we were trying to squeeze every last bit of performance out of the IBM JVM (now called Eclipse OMR). The majority of such optimizations required an intricate understanding of how CPUs and memories look under the hood. But why is there such an impressive performance gain in padding objects with blank space to the closest multiple of 64 bytes and ensuring they always start at addresses that are exactly divisible with 64?

Explore The Evolution Of Music Production And AI's Creative Impact on Composition

Music has been an integral part of human culture for millennia, evolving in countless ways over the years. In recent times, we've witnessed a remarkable transformation in the world of music production, thanks to the creative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In this blog post, you'll delve into the fascinating journey of music production's evolution and how AI is reshaping composition. From its humble beginnings to the cutting-edge AI-powered tools, you'll discover how technology is influencing and enhancing the creative process.