Maintaining a well-functioning IT infrastructure is vital to any business’s success. Infrastructure monitoring tools are essential for keeping tabs on all the components of your system, ensuring uptime, performance, and security. As 2024 unfolds, businesses are seeking the best tools that can handle their growing demands. In this post, we
WebSockets have been around for over a decade now, but the real-time web existed long before they came. This preceding ‘real-time’ web was typically slower and hard to achieve. It was attained by hacking available web technologies that were not primarily built for real-time applications. There was no solution with
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a unique blend of software engineering and systems engineering aimed at ensuring scalable and reliable systems. SREs strive to build high-quality, reliable software while keeping up with fast-paced development cycles. To achieve these goals, they utilize various tools that help monitor, automate, and optimize performance.
In the world of a site reliability engineer (SRE), failure is not only an option, but also expected. Systems, web applications, servers, devices, etc., are all prone to performance issues and unexpected outages at some point. It is an unavoidable fact. These unexpected failures can lead to huge revenue losses,
Monitoring distributed systems is essential to keep your system running smoothly, efficiently, and reliably. With the growing reliance on distributed systems in everything from web services to cloud computing and large-scale applications, having a robust monitoring setup is crucial. Let’s dive into what distributed systems are, their different types, key
In one of our previous articles, we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. In this article, we will take a
What is Site Reliability Engineering? Site Reliability Engineering, or SRE, is a set of principles and practices that applies software engineering techniques to the challenges of IT operations. SRE originated at Google when engineers needed a more systematic, software-oriented approach to manage and optimize their massive infrastructure. SRE’s main goal
ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) is a solution from Microsoft for single sign-on (SSO) functionality. It is used by organizations that have their users on Windows Servers to provide authentication and authorization to web-based applications or services outside the organization. ADFS implements federated identity and claim-based access control to authenticate
Bounded to service level agreements (SLAs), vendors must monitor performance of their SaaS-based solutions for an optimal user experience. Monitoring performance of a SaaS-based solutions is a challenge since it varies extensively across user locations and geographies. These applications and their content need to travel a rigorous path of geography-specific
SaaS offers convenience, scalability, and ease of access, making it a powerful choice for businesses of all sizes. However, monitoring SaaS-based applications comes with unique challenges that can impact performance, security, and the overall user experience if not handled properly. For SaaS providers, ensuring a smooth, reliable, and secure service is
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