Pull requests are a core feature of Bitbucket Cloud, serving as the hub where code contributions are reviewed, discussed, and approved before being merged into the codebase. Initially, developers focused on ensuring that proposed changes were bug-free, adhered to correct code styling, and included appropriate tests. Over time, the role of pull requests has expanded to act as a checkpoint, ensuring that only high-quality and compliant code reaches production.

As part of our best practices Kelverion always recommends having a test automation platform. There are several reasons explained below why Kelverion recommends customers have a test environment. We know it takes a little bit of time and resources, but it truly can be a safe zone that allows you to test and grow your IT automation processes. Let’s explore some of the most common reasons.

One of the main goals for every MSP is to make getting new clients onboard as easy as possible. A major way to achieve this is to rank high on Google for the area your MSP operates. Purple Cloud IT is an MSP that serves clients in the UK, but we’ve also helped many MSPs over the years with their SEO and Google ranking because we’ve found that we’re pretty good at SEO.

Domain expiration monitoring tracks the expiration dates of domain names. It alerts website owners before their domains expire, helping them avoid downtime or loss of their online identity.

When it comes to critical incident management, IT teams require a structured approach that will ensure that any cybersecurity event is swiftly remediated. And no incident management plan is complete without a clearly defined incident response team. Whether your team is looking to establish an incident response team from scratch or just improve existing response practices, this blog will help your organization understand what it takes to build the best incident response team.

DevOps accelerates modern software development by automating processes and breaking down silos between development and operations teams. This paradigm shift emphasizes continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to speed time to market, facilitate higher-quality releases, and improve customer satisfaction.

The network is the metaphorical plumbing through which all your precious non-metaphorical observability and monitoring data flows. It holds secrets you’ll never find anywhere else. And it’s more important today than ever before.

When an application breaks and we hear things like, “My login is not working,” or “The web app is slow,'' more often than not SiteMinderTM seems to be in the line of fire. However, in my experience, it has usually been a third-party or other configured item like firewall rules that have turned out to be the culprit. Now I am not saying that it is never SiteMinder. Potentially the issue could be anywhere, but I guess the bigger question here is how do we prove it one way or the other?

The Grafana 11.1 minor release comes on the heels of unveiling Grafana 11 at GrafanaCON, but it packs in some ease of use visualization improvements, updates to Grafana Alerting (I spy a new settings page), and some impactful changes to the overall accessibility of Grafana.

Firmware is the permanent software programmed into a device’s read-only memory. It provides the low-level control for the device’s specific hardware. In a data center, firmware is embedded in various components such as servers, storage devices, and networking equipment. Firmware management involves the processes and tools necessary to update, maintain, and monitor these firmware systems.