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CEO Guide to Incident and Problem Management

What is Incident Management? We define Incident Management as:   "A process discipline addressing how an organization reacts to incidents affecting…

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CEO Guide to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

What is Site Reliability Engineering? Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a set of principles and practices that applies application development…

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To ORM or Not to ORM: Do we keep it or replace it?

We have many clients that have chosen to use Object-Relational Mapping, or ORM, to abstract the database and subsequent writing of SQL statements from…

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CEO Guide to DevOps

What is DevOps? DevOps is a cultural philosophy and set of practices that breaks down functional silos between software Development (Dev) and Operations…

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Failing to Design for Rollback Is Designing for Failure

Shoulder pads were in, Reagan just became president, and "Back to the Future" was released in the theaters. 1985 will be remembered for many reasons, but for…

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Single Points Of Failure: Never Trust and Always Avoid

“There are an estimated 12 million to 24 million ecommerce websites in the world. Nearly 60% of American consumers prefer to shop online. U.S. consumers spend,…