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What's New with WhatsUp Gold 2022.1

The newly released WhatsUp Gold 2022.1 provides an easy-to-use IT infrastructure monitoring solution that lets you find and fix problems fast. With its unmatched combination of out-of-the-box functionality, intuitive workflows, visual mapping, and system integrations, WhatsUp Gold 2022.1 offers users even more built-in infrastructure discovery and monitoring power, available from Day 1.

Getting ahead of application performance issues

When application performance is not managed proactively, it impacts the customer experience, costs business downtime, and takes time to fix the issue. And when an application is down, transactions can't happen, and staff lose productivity. This equates to a loss in revenue. Even worse, some organisations are oblivious to slowly performing applications until much later when trying to understand the underlying issue. By then, it's often too late, and they've already lost customers or money.

How To Grow Your WooCommerce Business In 3 Easy Steps

Brand loyalty might be on the decline, but ecommerce is on the rise. Ecommerce is on track to account for 24% of global retail sales by the end of 2026. Source: Statista And as businesses reach growth limits in their local markets, the industry is seeing more ecommerce brands expanding onto the global stage. 76% of online shoppers have made purchases on sites outside of their own countries.

Redgate upgrades SQL Monitor query tuning capability to help development teams move faster and smarter

As part of its ongoing program to continuously release improvements for its SQL Server performance monitoring tool, Redgate announced today a new feature to ease the problems DBAs and developers face with query tuning and optimization.

IBM MQ vs Apache Kafka: How Do They Differ?

Asynchronous communication between various CX applications has long been made possible by enterprise messaging solutions like IBM MQ and – more recently – Apache Kafka. Developers might assume that these two technologies are interchangeable. However, once they scrape the surface, critical differences between IBM MQ and Apache Kafka come to light.

Showcase dashboards securely and effortlessly with Skykit's offering in the Datadog Marketplace

For many organizations, making the most of the visibility Datadog offers into the health and performance of their infrastructure means displaying dashboards to stakeholders in various settings continuously and in real time. But the standard solutions for sharing dashboards to large-format displays can be onerous, involving sundry software and hardware and restrictive manual setups. These solutions can also pose significant security risks, since they tend to involve sharing passwords or devices.

Advanced Kubernetes interview questions

In the second part of our “Kubernetes interview questions” series, we have outlined ten questions to help those that want to take their Kubernetes knowledge to the next level. Read on to learn more about the difference between Kubernetes and Docker Swarm. We’ll also be covering how an organization can keep costs low using Kubernetes. If you missed part one, check it out here.

How to build a successful on-call team - incident.fm

In this podcast, our panellists discuss what it means to build a successful on-call team. Drawing on their experiences at fast growing start-ups and scale-ups, incident.io co-founders Pete and Chris cover everything from who should be on the rota and how to build a compassionate on-call culture, to compensation structures and tips for operationalising on-call.

Reduce MTTR and improve UX with Grafana Enterprise: Inside Optum's observability stack

Among the 12 greatest stressors in life, six revolve around healthcare issues. From loss of a loved one to pregnancy and even retirement, these events often involve interactions with healthcare services — interactions that can either add to an individual’s stress or, ideally, help alleviate it.