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Building better software with automated monitoring and alerting

This is a guest article by Dan Holloran from VictorOps – an on-call alerting and incident response tool recently acquired by Splunk. They are experts in incident management. In software development and IT operations, we tend to focus a lot of our time on the delivery and deployment pipeline. But, what happens after you deploy new services? How are you responding to incidents in production and identifying reliability concerns?

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The 7 best Real User Monitoring tools for 2019

As applications become more complex, a single JavaScript error can really make a difference to your bottom line. The average Fortune 1000 company, after all, spends upwards of $2.5 billion each year on unplanned application downtime. When an app doesn't work like it's supposed to, it doesn't exactly inspire users to continue fidgeting with it.

Useful tools to manage your application's secrets

When you build and deploy an application, chances are that you need to store some form of secrets. These are typically things like credentials for 3rd party systems and database credentials. As an ASP.NET Core developer, Microsoft provides you with an easy way to store secrets like these in your development environment, namely the Secret Manager.

SilverStripe - reducing error notifications by tens of thousands

SilverStripe run high-value websites and applications where reliability is vital for success. Here's how both the delivery and operations team gain visibility into the root cause of software problems during the development process, helping them to reduce error notifications by tens of thousands.

Highlights from the Raygun and AWS tech leaders' panel: Closing the gap between code and customer

The Tech Leader’s Tour is a series of events bringing tech leaders together to learn from each other about improving software quality and customer experience. The next stop for the tour is Wellington, followed by Sydney, Melbourne, Seattle, Portland and San Francisco. Intrigued? Good news! Be the first to know by expressing your interest here.

'Monitoring is your lateral line', and more from the new book 'Achieving DevOps'

The following article is an excerpt from the book Achieving DevOps, a novel about delivering the best Agile, DevOps and Microservices, written by Dave Harrison and Knox Lively. This article is published with the author’s permission. A lateral line is how a fish monitors the surrounding water for changes in pressure, allowing it to understand the environment. This is how fish can survive in a very harsh, always-changing environment; without it, the fish is ‘blind’ and cannot survive.