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After stepping out for lunch, you return to find that Uptime.com has issued a downtime alert to your work email address. You’ve been away from your computer for about 45 minutes, blissfully unaware of your inbox and enjoying a moment of zen. Now that you’ve walked head-first into a small crisis, what’s the fastest way to confirm downtime, get server response codes, and perform outage analysis? We’ve got you covered with our real-time analysis tool.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we discuss whether NoOps is just a buzzword, a far-fetched reality, or simply the next evolutionary state of DevOps.

Early adopter enterprises across verticals such as Retail, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas are looking to incorporate containers and Kubernetes as a way of modernizing their applications. Choosing k8s as a standard ensures that these applications can be deployed these on different data center infrastructures (bare metal/VMware/KVM on OpenStack etc) or on public clouds (AWS/Azure/GCP etc).

In the old days of pushing tin and cardboard -- i.e., servers and packaged software -- it was comparatively easy to land a deal, hand the account from sales executive to post-sales engineering/support, then move on to the next opportunity. Today, in the cloud-enabled world, there is no more tin (unless you are a cloud or platform provider) and no more software DVDs in boxes. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings require different customer engagement.

Would you know if your website went down? What would a potential customer think if they tried to access your website and found that it was offline? Would they return for a second time? Almost all businesses maintain some sort of online presence, and even for companies with large IT teams, it is simply infeasible for an individual or team to manually monitor the status of a particular website.

Affiliate Marketing has been around for over 20 years, with the first affiliate program set up in1994 by PC Flowers ; Gifts to sell flowers online. This was followed a couple of years laterby Amazon who set up their own affiliate marketing program in 1996. Since then a vastarray of affiliate programs have gone online across the world, and today the AffiliateMarketing industry is estimated to be worth over US$12 Billion a year according to theInternational Advertising Bureau.

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