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Simplify License Compliance

Today managing your licenses with Cloudsmith has become incredibly simple. Now, with the help of our License Compliance UI, not only can you update the license associated with a package without needing to modify a package, plus you can also view statistics of how your overall licenses appear across all packages within a repository. Don't believe me?

Kubernetes in Production: 6 Key Considerations

Kubernetes is an open-source platform for container orchestration. You can use it to deploy a highly resilient, self-healing infrastructure using automation and infrastructure as code (IaC). Kubernetes includes features for zero downtime deployments, scaling, automatic rollout and rollback of updates, and service discovery. Kubernetes is designed to help you manage container deployments at scale via REST API.

10 CRM Solutions for WooCommerce Store

For a business to be successful, customer relationship is a determining factor. No matter how big your venture is, without an efficient customer-business relationship it will surely suffer a crash in revenue at some point. This is particularly valid for online businesses and e-commerce stores that offer direct retail service to consumers. They have a larger customer base and it’s very hard for such platforms to manage every aspect of the retail.

Data Layout and Schema Design Best Practices for InfluxDB

Figuring out the best data layout for InfluxDB v2 is important in optimizing the resources used by InfluxDB, as well as improving ingestion rates and the performance of queries and tasks. You also want to consider developer and user experience (UX). This post will walk you through developing a schema for an IoT application example and answer the following questions.

5 reasons your network needs an advanced IP scanner

With networks continually scaling to meet business needs, advanced IP scanning has become a crucial task for network admins to ensure network availability and performance. Scanning IP addresses can be challenging in large networks, which often include wired and wireless devices with dynamic IPs, multiple DNS, DHCP configurations, and complex subnets.

Learn how monitoring VPNs enhances your remote workforce's productivity: The ITOM podcast [Episode 3]

The ITOM podcast returns with yet another episode aimed to alleviate all your remote work woes. In the last episode, we drilled into the nuances of VPN security, encryption, hashing algorithms, certification authorities, and much more. Now we’ll discuss the practical implications of VPNs on remote work. VPNs have become many organizations’ best bet to help maintain business continuity in this era of remote work.

The CMDB Stages a Comeback with Insights from AIOps

The Configuration Management Database (CMDB) has always been a tricky beast to tame, despite having a longstanding presence in enterprise IT. Originally implemented to help track and manage ever-changing IT assets, the CMDB has a checkered past but is finally ready to shed its bad reputation thanks to new technology.

DevOps 101 - Introduction to CI/CD

When you’re new to an industry, you encounter a lot of new concepts. We tend to use a lot of jargon, the documentation may be written with someone more experienced in mind or rely on contextual knowledge of the rest of the space, and it often doesn’t explain the “why” for the tool. This can make it really difficult to get your feet underneath you on an unfamiliar landscape, especially for junior engineers.