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The Complete Guide to Adopting Open-Source Software: Steps and Benefits

Adopting open-source software (OSS) offers businesses significant advantages, such as cost savings, flexibility, and enhanced innovation. This guide outlines the key benefits of OSS and provides a detailed roadmap for successfully integrating it into your operations. From assessing your needs to selecting the right tools, evaluating compatibility, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, this blog covers all essential steps to ensure a smooth transition to an open-source environment. Additionally, it addresses common challenges, offering solutions to issues like resistance to change, security concerns, and lack of support.

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Build vs. Buy: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing an Incident Management Solution

The blog dives into the critical decision of whether to build a custom Incident Management solution or purchase a pre-built one. It covers the advantages and challenges of both approaches, discussing factors like cost, scalability, integration, and long-term support. The guide also explores niche scenarios where building a custom solution might be viable and compares it with the benefits of commercial platforms, ultimately helping businesses make an informed decision.

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HTML vs Plain Text Email: What to Choose For Your Next Email Campaign?

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In the HTML vs plain text battle, it may seem that the plain text won. At least from the marketers’ perspective, these appear to drive more engagement and conversions. Indeed, I’ve given you a bunch of data to support this claim, yet I wouldn’t say it’s a hard-and-fast rule. Simply, email campaigns are an ever-evolving job and sometimes they appear to have a mind of its own. Therefore, you need to continuously analyze the audience engagement metrics to tailor the email strategy. And your goal should always be to ensure the strategy aligns with user expectations to maximize campaign effectiveness.

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Debugging Low Cache Hit Ratio

Every read from a physical drive is a tremendous performance hit and should be avoided. In this blog post, we are going to see how to debug scenarios where we can’t utilize cached data and need to read from the physical drive. We’re going to see why it’s important, what to look for, and what tools and extensions to use.

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Software Developer, RELIANOID

Spanning Tree Protocol

🖧 Ensuring a loop-free network topology is crucial for the stability and efficiency of LANs. Explore our latest article on Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and its enhancements, Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) and Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP). Understand their functionalities, key featur..

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Customer Marketing Manager, Last9

Advanced OpenTelemetry Configurations: Sampling, Filtering, and Data Enrichment

OpenTelemetry offers powerful data collection, but maximizing its efficiency requires careful configuration. This article explores advanced techniques for sampling filtering, and data enrichment.

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Distributed Systems 101 (based on Understanding Distributed Systems)

The post provides a technical overview of distributed systems, including how systems communicate with each other using protocols like HTTP and RPC. It also touches on the importance of services within a distributed system and how communication between services is essential for overall functionality,.. read more

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The biggest-ever global outage: lessons for software engineers

Last week, over 8.5 million Windows machines worldwide crashed due to a CrowdStrike update that caused the CSAgent.sys process to write to an invalid memory address, resulting in the "Blue Screen of Death". Recovery was slow and manual, with each impacted machine needing individual fixing, and lesso.. read more

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Optimising load testing in production

The post discusses the challenges faced by the Owlbot load testing system at loveholidays. By analyzing the bottleneck in theripleyload generator, the team was able to optimize the replay algorithm and improve performance significantly. The changes made, such as adjusting theMaxIdleConnsPerHostvalue.. read more

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Canonical Announce Major Ubuntu Kernel Change

Canonical will now ship the latest upstream kernel code in development at the time of a new Ubuntu release, even if it is still in Release Candidate (RC) status. This new policy aims to provide users with the latest features and hardware support, differing from the current method where stable kernel.. read more