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For many software engineering teams, most testing is done in their CI/CD pipeline. New deployments run through a gauntlet of unit tests, integration tests, and even performance tests to ensure quality. However, there's one key test type that's excluded from this list, and it's one that can have a critical impact on your application and your organization: reliability tests. As software changes, reliability risks get introduced.

As user expectations for mobile apps increase, effective bug remediation involves not only addressing critical incidents as they occur but also proactively handling smaller performance issues in order to ensure a smooth user experience (UX). Instabug helps you understand how users experience your app with crucial mobile performance metrics—such as launch metrics, loading times, and UI hangs—viewable alongside your bug reports.

Too often, complexity means confusion — and confusion is your worst enemy when it comes to efficient incident response. We recently found that poor incident management practices (like confusion about what to do or how to escalate an incident) can cost companies as much as $18 million a year.

User expectations are at an all-time high, and any performance hiccups can lead to frustrated users and lost business opportunities. To get real-time insights into their digital assets and succeed in this competitive landscape, businesses need Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) that incorporates both synthetic and Real User Monitoring (RUM). RUM and synthetics are two powerful tools that, when used in tandem, offer a comprehensive view of performance and user experience.

Skiff is a cloud storage platform with the same goal as many alternative cloud storage services: to provide a secure and private cloud for individuals and businesses. Skiff hopes to provide alternatives to Big Tech companies such as Google Drive and Dropbox to give users full ownership of their files with end-to-end encrypted services. As well as cloud storage, Skiff has expanded its services to other products that encrypt your data, including email, calendar, and other mobile apps.

Managing your load balancer instances is important while using HAProxy. You might encounter errors, need to apply configurations, or periodically upgrade HAProxy to a newer version (to name a few examples). As a result, reloading or restarting HAProxy is often the secret ingredient to restoring intended functionality. Whether you’re relatively inexperienced with HAProxy or you’re a grizzled veteran, understanding which method is best in a given situation is crucial.

IT leaders often find themselves under pressure to support business outcomes while also trying to manage help requests. An incident priority matrix makes the incident management process much more seamless. It helps companies handle priority incidents within reasonable resolution times while ensuring other concerns are met. In this blog post, we delve deep into the concept of the Incident Priority Matrix, its significance, and how it can transform your incident management processes.

All business eyes seem to be focused on the current challenges of an unsteady economic environment, and organizational leaders are working to figure out the best plan to overcome them. Leaders have their own collection of key initiatives as no two companies are the same. Most commonly; however, they want to double capacity and productivity, cut costs, enhance customer experiences, and future-proof their organizations.

In the modern digital age, the allure of cloud computing has been nothing short of mesmerizing. From startups to global enterprises, businesses have been swiftly drawn to the promise of scalability, flexibility, and the potential for reduced capital expenditure that cloud platforms like Azure offer. Considering the diverse Azure VM types and the attractive Azure VMs sizes, it’s easy to understand the appeal.

Full disk encryption, FDE, has long been an integral part of Ubuntu’s security strategy. Its mission is straightforward: to mitigate the risks of data breaches due to device loss and unauthorised access, by encrypting data while stored on the computer’s hard drive or storage device. For 15 years, Ubuntu’s approach to full disk encryption relied on passphrases for authenticating users.