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Netflix earnings, DevOps and profitability
DevOps as the road to profitability Netflix released a great earnings report earlier this week. According to the Wall Street Journal’s page one article on October 18th, “Netflix Inc. blew through its forecast for the subscriber additions in the September quarter…sending its shares soaring 20% in after-hours trading. … The better-than-expected performance came mainly in … Continued
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Serverless promises and the persistent need for critical alerting
Why serverless computing doesn’t end the need for security or alerts Serverless computing provides the advantage of taking away the problem of managing servers. For many small start-ups, this is a huge advantage as the cost of purchasing, maintaining and scaling servers is a real pain point. Serverless also holds forth the prospect of ending … Continued
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New Integration: Call-in Voice Attachments with Cisco Tropo
One of OnPage’s many strengths has been its inclusion of attachments to it’s critical alerts. This simple but powerful feature allows our customers to get a better understanding of a critical incident through the attachment of images and voice messages. While OnPage’s inbuilt messaging allows communication with one’s team members/colleagues through rich notifications, we wanted … Continued
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Seven reasons why we need pager alternatives in healthcare
Pitch the pager or face the consequences While smartphones have become the manner of communication for most professionals, pagers are still used in many professions as the standard mode of communication. This choice for pagers comes with significant consequences and indeed many suggest the need for finding pager alternatives in healthcare. For example, pagers are not … Continued
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OnPage Critical Alerting with Microsoft Outlook
Let OnPage and Microsoft Office Monitor your Network While it is well known that the Microsoft Outlook client allows you to use rules to forward emails, you might not have ever realized that you can use these rules to enable critical alerting. In fact, critical alerting with OnPage and Microsoft Outlook is easily enabled no … Continued
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OnPage Ensures Compatibility with Apple iOS10
OnPage functionality complimented by Apple’s iOS10 OnPage has ensured compatibility with Apple’s iOS10 operating system. Apple’s newest operating system has only been around since mid-September but OnPage team has ensured there is no pause in compatibility. The iOS10 update provides functionality that many in the OnPage world will find helpful. Specifically, the new operating system … Continued
read moreOnPage Integration with Microsoft Outlook Email
How to play by the rules Email integration has been our bread and butter since we started the company in 2011. As such, we think it important to explain how using the powerful, dependable and reliable logic inherent in Microsoft Office’s email platform, allows you to easily set up a framework to get notified in … Continued
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Constant Vigilance in Continuous Delivery – How to do DevOps right
The importance of monitoring and alerting in the continuous delivery cycle In the 2016 State of DevOps report, Puppet reported that the top DevOps shops like Amazon or Etsy deploy new software releases multiple times per day. The next tier of companies deploy on a weekly or monthly basis. What is the difference between High … Continued
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ChatOps – Secret to great incident management in DevOps teams of 20 or 2000
Chat your way to excellence DevOps is constantly trying to improve production through automation, collaboration and tools. ChatOps is often the paradigm which brings these tasks together into a single conversation. In ChatOps, “chat applications and tools for real-time communication and task execution [are distributed] among members of development and IT operations teams”. Yet often … Continued
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The Secret to Making Your DevOps Team World Class
Continuous deployment is key to world class DevOps With their State of DevOps report released at the beginning of the summer, Puppet clearly defined the characteristics of world class DevOps organizations and the make-up of those lagging behind. According to Nigel Kersten, CIO of Puppet, there is a huge gap between organizations that get DevOps … Continued
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