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Last year at PagerDuty Summit 2018, we officially launched PagerDuty University (PDU), a training program that provides hands-on classroom training to current and prospective customers so they can get the most out of the PagerDuty platform. Since its debut, PDU has taught hundreds of learners how they can optimize their instances to minimize downtime and improve responders’ quality of on-call life, in addition to providing thought leadership best practices to customers around the globe.

TCP congestion control is a fundamental part of this protocol and over the years has undergone a process of constant improvement through the generation of different versions, such as TCP Tahoe, Reno, Vegas, and so on. The case of the TCP CUBIC version, which has been the default congestion control applied by Linux/Unix systems.

Software vendors and analysts love to rattle off scary numbers about how many thousands of dollars per minute or hour an infrastructure outage will cost the typical company. Those numbers can be scary indeed; for example, Gartner quotes $5,400 per minute as the cost borne by a medium to large-sized retailer. Your company, however, is most likely not identical to the “typical” company on which the numbers are based.

In the IT world, support teams race to resolve incidents, ensuring that clients and stakeholders remain satisfied. Yet, many teams struggle to meet time-to-response goals due to ineffective alerting processes, human errors and sluggish procedures.

Cloudsmith accepted to The Northern Ireland Cyber Security Cluster - companies developing world-leading cybersecurity technologies.

These days having a website isn’t enough to keep visitors happy and coming back for more. No, you need a website that is secure, loads quickly, and is free of any bugs. Of course, the only way to ensure this is to test your website on a regular basis. If this is not a task that you want to outsource, there is no need to worry. There are a number of web application testing tools that can help you out.

July 2019 Update introduces the option to opt-out for certain categories as well as some enhancements in the Web portal. You can now opt-in/out of certain categories under Settings -> Services & Systems. This works on a per-user basis and is useful when you do not want to receive certain alerts but your team members still need to get them. Another scenario is to listen in, meaning you see what is going on but all notifications can be muted.

No matter how you design your architecture or what technologies you implement, critical incidents will happen. When things go wrong, it is easy to get carried away and forget about the bigger picture. But your work isn’t done after you fix the immediate problem; now is the time to take a look at how the incident actually happened so that you can learn from it.

As a company providing tooling to enable developers and operations teams to adopt a productive serverless workflow, Stackery is closely integrated with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our customers are development teams who want to confidently build on AWS serverless and then manage the pipeline to production with confidence that what gets built and changed is done efficiently and well.

One of the benefits of using Logstash in your data pipelines is the ability to transform the data into the desired format according to the needs of your system and organization. There are many ways of transforming data in Logstash, one of them is using the mutate filter plugin. This Logstash filter plugin allows you to force fields into specific data types and add, copy, and update specific fields to make them compatible across the environment.