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API Discovery Is Now at Your Fingertips: API Portal for VMware Tanzu Is GA

Chris Sterling, Shruti Iyer, and Aditya Tripathi contributed to this blog post. APIs—the key component of any company’s microservices model—are driving digital transformation in modern enterprises. Indeed, “66 percent of organizations report using private or B2B APIs,” according to the Gartner report, “Create API Portals That Drive API Adoption Among Internal and External Developer Communities” by Akash Jain and Mark O’Neill, November 2020.

Highly available Kubernetes in IoT: MicroK8s on RaspberryPi

Learn how to set up a Pi-Hole instance with a single command and a cluster of Raspberry Pis on MicroK8s. High availability, load balancing and Kubernetes configuration included. The Raspberry Pi 4 brings the graphics, RAM and connectivity needed for a Linux workstation, so why not use a cluster to set up your own Pi-Hole, the open source network-level ad blocker that acts as a DNS sinkhole or DHCP server.

High-frequency checks are now live!

We just released a big change on how often you can schedule your API and Browser checks. Together with our launching customer RMS — a leading property management solution — we looked at how we can catch hiccups and errors of mission-critical apps as early as possible and get better insights on uptime across the board.

Quick Demo: Ivanti UEM for Mobile - checkra1n Jailbreak Update for iOS 14.5

The checkm8 vulnerability and the updated checkra1n jailbreak tool are the gifts that keep on giving for Apple devices. Using Ivanti UEM for Mobile and Mobile Threat Defense, you can protect your iPhone 5S through iPhone X, iPad 5th through 7th generations, and iPad Pro 2nd generation, Apple TV 4 and 4K, and iPods up to 7th generation devices.

Out with GraphQL, in with gRPC

At Speedscale, we’re always trying to find ways to iterate faster and reduce developer toil. In line with that mission, we slant our engineering decisions towards using cutting edge tech because we usually move faster and it also allows us to help our customers later on when they upgrade their own tech stack. Recently, we had the opportunity to upgrade the communication channel between our api-gateway and react front end. This journey provided some unexpected benefits.

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How the technology gap grew during 2020

Even before the emergence of a global pandemic that disrupted and catalysed modern workplace IT, IT professionals were under pressure. In a few years, many have learned to deliver more new technologies and advanced services than perhaps in the previous decade. Today's hybrid, distributed tech environments already pressured even senior admins to equip themselves with new skills to adapt to these changes and manage systems confidently.