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Creating Azure VM images with Packer and Puppet Bolt

HashiCorp Packer is a free and open source tool for creating golden images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer makes it easy to codify VM images for Microsoft Azure. In this blog post we’ll look at how to use HashiCorp Packer and Puppet Bolt to define our VM templates in code.

The New Technical Executive: between CIO & CTO

Typically, there are two technical executive leadership roles in most organizations: the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Chief Technical Officer (CTO). But there can be confusion between these two positions, a lot of questions when comparing the CIO vs CTO, and often they might actually fuse into a single position depending on the business strategy. Their positions might not be so clear to the people who work for them.

Getting up and running with Calico on EKS

In this session, we will go over the design considerations and available options to run Calico on EKS. After this session you’ll be able to Understand the available supported options to run Calico on EKS Understand the various design considerations of running scalable EKS clusters with Calico Learn about the value-added capabilities of Calico Enterprise on EKS

Datadog on Incident Management

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform that ingests trillions of data points per day, coming from more than 8,000 customers. With a complex distributed architecture and hundreds of deployments per day, needless to say sometimes things don't go as planned. Our teams have been improving the way incidents are managed at Datadog over the years and they are using that knowledge to help Datadog customers manage their own incidents.

Respond to Alerts Faster With the Bidirectional Slack Integration for LogicMonitor

LogicMonitor is pleased to announce enhancements to our Slack integration. The new integration is now bidirectional, allowing users to acknowledge and SDT alerts from their Slack workspace. LogicMonitor accounts come pre-configured to integrate with Slack. The integration enables LogicMonitor to create Slack Channel Notifications based on LogicMonitor alerts.

Video: Identifying Memory Bloat

In this video, we are going to take a look at what memory bloat is, what causes it, and how you can use Scout to eliminate it from your applications. Memory related performance issues have the potential to bring your entire application down, and yet, most APMs completely ignore this fact and fail to provide any useful way of monitoring memory usage at all.

Add file attachments to pull requests in Bitbucket Cloud

During code review, static image files might not be adequate when a developer wants to demo their changes. Starting now, teams can attach any type of file to a pull request. No need to worry about the file size either. For example, “before and after” screen recordings can be uploaded and viewed directly in a pull request. With this change, Bitbucket Cloud has become more integrated with the Atlassian ecosystem. Does your team also collaborate on Jira or Confluence?

ThinkTel Network Assessment for UC Deployment Case Study

Find out how ThinkTel, a provider of advanced hosted, and on-premises, voice, video, conferencing, and data solutions for the Enterprise, Carrier and SMB markets throughout Canada, leverages Obkio’s Network Performance Monitoring solution to perform a network assessment of clients’ network capability to support the specific requirements of Real Time Media and deploy a Unified Communication solution with confidence (Microsoft Teams via Direct Routing, Skype for Business).