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Home Assistant Tutorial: A Beginner's Guide to Automation

In this post, we’ll be taking a closer look at Home Assistant, an open source platform for connecting your smart devices at home. We’ll walk through every important section of Home Assistant: dashboards, integrations, add-ons, devices and entities, automation, scripts, and scenes. In addition, we’ll be walking through how to set up your Home Assistant and create automation using Home Assistant’s graphical user interface.

Escaping the Cost/Visibility Tradeoff in Observability Platforms

For developers, understanding the performance of shipped code is crucial. Through the last decade, a tablestake function in software monitoring and observability solutions has been to save and track app metrics. Engineers love tools that get out of your way and just work, and the appeal of today’s best-in-class application performance monitoring (APM) suites lies in a seamless day zero experience with drop-in agent installs, button click integrations, and immediate metrics collection.

Rancher Live: What's the buzz with Cilium?

The Cilium community has had some truly buzzworthy accomplishments (pun intended!) in the past year - from hosting the first ever CiliumCon in Amsterdam to becoming a CNCF graduated project! In this first episode of Rancher Live for 2024, we will be joined by the community pollinator for Isovalent, Bill Mulligan. Together, we will be diving into the how-tos of creating "hive"-ly orchestrated container workloads that are as sweet as honey!

Teams Call Quality Dashboard: The First Step In Teams Insight

Do you have much experience using the Call Quality Dashboard (CQD)? Does your team go on about it being a ‘good starting point’? Do you even know what the CQD does? Fear not. If you answered ‘no’ to any of those questions, we’re going to fill you in with all the details that matter and give you some additional direction on how to get the most out of them. The bottom line is they’re a good starting point, but a long way from being a proactive performance solution.

Paving the Road for Proactive Reliability

At Expedia Group, Kaushik Patel and Nikos Katirtzis have thousands of engineers and micro-services. Heterogeneity in terms of infrastructure and technologies used over the years created inefficiencies and posed the need for a set of automated best practices for our engineering teams. Over the past 2 years, using a data-driven approach, we’ve worked on creating a set of platforms that helps teams to adopt good reliability practices, including chaos engineering, release safety, or automatic failover between cloud regions. In this talk Kaushik and Nikos will cover the platforms they’ve built, including how they used data to drive their investment decisions.

How to Remove Trojan Viruses and Prevent Them in the Future

As subtle as they are dangerous, Trojan horses (or just “Trojans”) masquerade as benign software only to unleash havoc once inside your computer. Despite their stealthy nature, there are specific strategies you can employ to safeguard your digital assets from these threats. Below, we’ll discuss how to recognize the signs of a Trojan infection, steps for removing Trojan viruses from your devices, and how to reduce the risk of future infiltrations.

How to Update Drivers on PCs and Troubleshoot Common Issues

You’re in the middle of an important task when suddenly your computer starts acting up—maybe it’s a flickering screen or a printer that’s decided not to heed your commands. Whatever the case, keeping your system drivers updated can help prevent and resolve these problems. But what exactly are drivers, and how do you update them? Below, we’ll offer guidance on how to update drivers on PCs and nip those nagging issues in the bud.