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How to Measure Core Web Vitals

Core Web Vitals are a new set of performance metrics that will become part of Google’s ranking algorithm from May 2021. In this blog, we explain how to measure Core Web Vitals scores. There are many ways website owners can find out their Core Web Vitals scores. This includes: PageSpeed Insights, Search Console, Lighthouse, Chrome DevTools, Chrome UX Report, and the Web Vitals Extension.

Why Real-Time Monitoring is So Important

No one can deny the importance of a proper monitoring system for the effective management of IT infrastructure. You need the most efficient solutions and monitoring tools to optimize performance, make the most out of your resources, and be able to deal with errors and failure conditions. While the traditional way of IT monitoring involves the use of reports, it does have certain limitations.

Why Your Business Should Consider Private And Direct Connections To Google Cloud

Although it entered the market later than Amazon and Microsoft, Google Cloud has established itself as one of the top 3 mainstream public clouds through its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings, with a strong presence in Machine Learning, data analytics and AI (Artificial Intelligence). Google has also become known for an attractive pricing model for its cloud services.

Using SQL Clone with Githooks & Branch Policies in Azure DevOps

Switching branches quickly and testing Pull Request code when working on database changes is no easy thing, but fear not! Join Chris Unwin in this video to find out how you can set up SQL Clone to allow developers to preserve changes when switching branches, and how teams can review code against a live DB, rather than relying on the raw code in version control.

Credential management best practices for business process automations

This webinar recording gives you a clear picture of the various credential-related perils that can surface because of implementing business process automation (BPA) workfows in your enterprise. Ganesh, our in-house IT security expert will walk you through the risks associated with hard-coding privileged credentials within application scripts and also provide you with a handful of security best practices to mitigate the risks and fortify your IT infrastructure from credential exposure through PAM360.

How we're graduating Grafana Agent experiments into the official Prometheus project

We’ve been experimenting with new ways to use and operate Prometheus over the past year. Every successful Grafana Agent experiment turns into an upstream contribution for the whole Prometheus community to benefit from. In this blog post, I go over the history of the Agent’s successful — and not so successful — experiments.

Continuous integration for React Native applications

Apache Cordova, since its release in 2009, has created a paradigm shift for mobile application development. Before Cordova, only developers who knew platform dedicated languages for a particular type of mobile operating system could develop native mobile applications. There was Objective-C for developing iOS apps, or Java for Android apps and platforms like Blackberry. Windows Phone also had languages dedicated to building their mobile applications.