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All Hands on Deck: P2P Distribution Combats Latency to Speed Delivery

With any huge task, more helpers make it go faster. That’s the solution large organizations increasingly seek for deploying large applications to hundreds of nodes. When others pitch in, many hands make light work. JFrog is pleased to introduce Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Distribution to help deliver content to huge K8s cluster runtime environments efficiently and at scale.

Troubleshooting Remote End-User Experience with Endpoint Monitoring

In today’s Tip of the Day, we are looking at troubleshooting remote end-user experience using Catchpoint’s Endpoint Monitoring solution. According to a recent set of figures from Stanford University, 42% of the U.S. labor force is working from home full-time. Based on their earnings, this group of work-from-home employees accounts for over two-thirds of U.S. economic activity.

How to Reduce MTTR With PagerDuty and Puppet's Relay

DevOps and SRE teams are under intense pressure to reduce the mean time to recovery (MTTR) when resolving incidents. With the proliferation of cloud services and the increasing complexity of DevOps toolchains, engineers today need to not only learn how to use these services, but also troubleshoot them when an incident is raised at 2 a.m. The problem is, many incident response processes are still manual today—cobbling together runbooks and ad hoc scripts and orchestrating people to respond.

Observability 101: Terminology and Concepts

When I first started following Charity on Twitter back in early 2019, I was quickly overwhelmed by the new words and concepts she was discussing. I liked the results she described: faster debugging, less alert fatigue, happier users. Those are all things I wanted for my team! But I was hung up on these big polysyllabic words, which stopped me from taking those first steps toward improving our own observability.

Monitoring Google Cloud with the Elastic Stack and Google Operations

Google Operations suite, formerly Stackdriver, is a central repository that receives logs, metrics, and application traces from Google Cloud resources. These resources can include compute engine, app engine, dataflow, dataproc, as well as their SaaS offerings, such as BigQuery. By shipping this data to Elastic, you’ll get a unified view of the performance of resources across your entire infrastructure from cloud to on-prem.

Investigative analysis of disjointed data in Elasticsearch with the Siren Platform

At Siren, we build a platform used for “investigative intelligence” in Law Enforcement, Intelligence, and Financial Fraud. Investigative intelligence is a specialisation of data analytics that serves the needs of those that are typically hunting for bad actors. Such investigations are the primary focus of law enforcement and intelligence, but are also critical to uncovering financial crime activities and for threat hunting in cybersecurity.

6 Tips to Prepare Your E-Commerce Site for the Biggest Holiday Traffic Surge Ever

6 Tips to Prepare Your E-Commerce Site for the Biggest Holiday Traffic Surge Ever So it begins. No, we are not talking about the school year, the football season, or a dizzying array of television shows about zombies, detectives, and of course: zombie detectives (seriously, it’s a thing).

Modern IT Systems Have Outgrown Traditional Monitoring

Legacy monitoring tools fall short for SRE teams and DevOps pros tasked with maintaining uptime of key applications in modern, cloud-based IT systems. To have visibility and control over these environments, these teams must collect and analyze more granular, underlying system information — observability data. This article explains why the only way for SRE teams and DevOps pros to extract the necessary insights from this data is through the application of AI capabilities.

Five Reasons to Switch from Broadcom DX Infrastructure Manager to OpsRamp

In November 2018, chip manufacturer Broadcom announced the completion of its $18.9 billion purchase of infrastructure software company, CA Technologies. While CA’s enterprise software division has seen many changes after the acquisition, the products in their AIOps and Observability portfolio consist of operational intelligence, application performance management, network monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring.

Planning for a Post-Pandemic World as an IT Leader

As COVID-19 cases began to rise around the world in March 2020, governments and businesses had no choice but to take extraordinary measures to flatten the curve. As an IT leader, you were likely tasked with helping entire companies transition to remote work all at once. Cubicles were replaced by home offices. Face-to-face meetings were replaced by video calls. Work performance was measured by tasks completed instead of hours worked. Digital connectivity became more important than ever before.