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Five worthy reads: Ethical AI: Why is it the need of the hour?

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we have discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we highlight the urgent need for ethical AI due to increased adoption of AI enabled technologies by businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Guide: Upgrading EKS with Terraform

New Kubernetes versions are released multiple times per year, and you must upgrade your EKS cluster periodically to stay up to date. In this blog post we will go over the steps required to safely upgrade your production EKS cluster managed by Terraform. At Blue Matador, we use Terraform to manage most of our AWS infrastructure, and our EKS cluster is no exception. We use the eks module, which provides a lot of functionality for managing your EKS cluster and worker nodes.

The change-maker's guide to pitching your project idea

This is it! This is the project you’ve been waiting for. The one that’s going to define your career and challenge you and totally transform “the way things are done around here.” The project your team will point to five years from now as the inflection point that ushered in a new era of awesome. If, that is, you can get the project approved, prioritized, and properly resourced.

From VMware to Charmed Openstack

Over the last decade, organisations have started virtualising their IT workloads and migrating from legacy monolithic infrastructure to cloud environments. Many choose VMware as a provider for their virtualised infrastructure. However, because of the costs associated with VMware licencing, support and professional services, many are not able to meet their primary goal - significantly reduced TCO. In search of alternative solutions, organisations have recently started exploring other platforms such as OpenStack.

User Experience platform at a fraction of the cost: germainAPM

germainAPM platform allows teams to quickly and cost-effectively lower churn rates and improved user experience. germainAPM monitors and improves User Experience, Process and Technology Performance, in real-time, 24x7. germainAPM is often used to fill-in the gaps of other major APM/BPM/DEM/automation platform since it is so flexible and customizable. Some of the greatest features that germainAPM offers: User Replay feature, Automatic Root-Cause Analysis of issues, Distributed Transaction Tracing, Business Process monitoring/insight, Alerting, Proactively Issue Detection, Automatic Issue Resolution, Tuning Recommendations.

Knowledge Management: An ITSM Lifeline to Connect Remote Employees

Knowledge management is a cornerstone of IT service management (ITSM). It provides technical guidance, steps to best troubleshoot issues, and in some cases an outlet to expand on tribal knowledge. Not only can knowledge content help drive self-service and employee empowerment, aiding in case deflection, but it can also serve as an extension of your organization’s culture.