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What is infrastructure as code? Discover the basics, benefits, and best practices

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Here, we’ll tackle the basics, benefits, and best practices of IAC, as well as choosing infrastructure-as-code tools for your organization. Infrastructure as code is a practice that automates IT infrastructure provisioning and management by codifying it as software. Exploring IAC best practices. Consistency.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

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Aligning site reliability goals with business objectives Because of this, SRE best practices align objectives with business outcomes. 5 SRE best practices Let’s break down SRE best practices into the following five major steps: 1.

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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

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Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful.

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Closed-loop remediation: Why unified observability is an essential auto-remediation best practice

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The observability platform detects the anomaly and determines the root cause of the problem: increased traffic during peak usage hours, resulting in a server overload. It is best practice to trigger actions to notification tools that indicate the success or failure of the remediation action.

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What is cloud monitoring? How to improve your full-stack visibility

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Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure. Continuous cloud monitoring with automation provides clear visibility into the performance and availability of websites, files, applications, servers, and network resources. Website monitoring.

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COVID-19 and Digital Services: An Action Plan for the Unexpected

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While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. So how do you know what to prepare for?

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Six causes of major software outages–And how to avoid them

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Possible scenarios A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms servers with traffic, making a website or service unavailable. Employee training in cybersecurity best practices and maintaining up-to-date software and systems are also crucial.

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