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In the first article of this three-part series on hybrid cloud security, we
discussed the Shared Responsibility Model, and examined how the most common
attack strategies persist, are amplified, or are mitigated as assets move
from data centers to the cloud. In part two, we talked about the unique
security challenges that are introduced by public cloud environments. In this
third and final installment, we'll review why it's essential to approach
hybrid cloud security with different methods, tools and best practices than
those used in the data center.
Bridging the Silo Between On-Premises and Cloud Environments
For today's resource-constrained IT teams, the explosion of public cloud
services has only increased the complexity of securing critical
infrastructure. Until recently, it has been a challenge for IT professionals
to find security tools that are specifically de... (more)
The Most Popular Programming Languages for 2017
By Jordan Bach
It’s hard to believe that it’s already 2017. But with the new year comes
new challenges, new opportunities—and, of course—new software projects.
One of the most important questions beginner, intermediate, and advanced
coders all have to answer before they begin their next project is which
programming language to use. Instead of reaching for an old favorite, pause
for a moment to consider the options.
There are no perfect languages, so it’s important to take the time to
understand the tradeoffs. When you decide on a language, you also determine
what libraries and tools you have at your disposal, the pool of candidates
you can hire, the availability of documentation, and much more. In this
article, we examine the top programming languages from leading industry
sources to help you make an informed decision ... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Linux Academy, the foremost online Linux
and cloud training platform and community, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th
International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the
Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Linux Academy was founded on the belief that providing high-quality, in-depth
training should be available at an affordable price. Industry leaders in
quality training, provided services, and student certification passes, its
goal is to change lives by teaching Linux and cloud technology to the tens of
thousands of students that learn at the Linux Academy.
For more information, please visit https://linuxacademy.com/.
@DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo taking place June 6-8, 2017, at Javits Center,
New York City, and is co-located with the 20th International Cloud Expo and
will feature technical sessions from a rock... (more)
You can turn a microwave into a camera and I’ll teach you how in a minute,
but before I do, let me share this news item. In a recent interview with a
reporter from the Bergen Record, Kellyanne Conway was asked about
surveillance. She responded: “There are many ways to surveil each other
now, unfortunately. There was an article this week that talked about how you
can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television
sets, any number of different ways. And microwaves that turn into cameras,
etc. So we know that that is just a fact of modern life.”
On its face, her statement about “microwaves that turn into cameras, et
cetera” is ridiculous. It reminds me of the late Sen. Ted Stevens’ famous
“Tubes” speech. I went right after “Uncle Ted” for his techno–faux
pas, but even then, there were bigger issues to consider. It would be
exceptionally easy ... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Dataloop.IO, an innovator in cloud
IT-monitoring whose products help organizations save time and money, has been
named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which
will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Dataloop.IO is an emerging software company on the cutting edge of major
IT-infrastructure trends including cloud computing and microservices. The
company, founded in the UK but now based in San Francisco, is developing the
next generation of cloud monitoring required for microservices and DevOps.
For more information, please visit https://www.dataloop.io/.
@DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo taking place June 6-8, 2017, at Javits Center,
New York City, and is co-located with the 20th International Cloud Expo and
will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference facult... (more)
Are You Seeing DOTS? - Data Ownership and Transparent Surveillance
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The explosion of new web/cloud/IoT-based applications and the data they
generate are transforming our world right before our eyes. In this rush to
adopt these new technologies, organizations are often ignoring fundamental
questions concerning who owns the data and failing to ask for permission to
conduct invasive surveillance of their customers.
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Organizations that are not transparent about how their systems gather data
telemetry without offering shared data ownership risk product rejection,
regulatory scrutiny and increasing consumer lack of trust in technology in
general.
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In his keynote at @ThingsExpo, Peter Vanderminden, Principal Industry
Analyst at... (more)
True Story. Over the past few years, Fannie Mae transformed the way in
which they delivered software. Deploys increased from 1,200/month to
15,000/month. At the same time, productivity increased by 28% while
reducing costs by 30%. But, how did they do it?
During the All Day DevOps conference, over 13,500 practitioners from around
the world to learn from their peers in the industry. Barry Snyder, Senior
Manager of DevOps at Fannie Mae, was one of 57 practitioners who shared his
real world journey through his enterprise transformation.
Choke Point or Checkpoint. Eddie Webb, Director of Software Delivery
Platforms at Liberty Mutual, also shared his organization's journey into
DevOps. Eddie described how they evolved their organization, tool chain,
and processes to go from 20% of builds being deployed to 60% over the past 18
months. He described how they document... (more)
@GonzalezCarmen has been ranked the Number One Influencer and @ThingsExpo has
been named the Number One Brand in the "M2M 2016: Top 100 Influencers and
Brands" by Onalytica.
Onalytica analyzed tweets over the last 6 months mentioning the keywords M2M
OR "Machine to Machine." They then identified the top 100 most influential
brands and individuals leading the discussion on Twitter.
Machine to Machine (M2M) refers to direct communication between devices using
any communications channel, including wired and wireless. The M2M market is
undergoing a fast transformation as enterprises are increasingly realizing
the value of connecting geographically dispersed people, devices, sensors and
machines to corporate networks. Today, industries such as healthcare,
automotive, oil and gas, precision agriculture, military, government, smart
cities/municipalities, manufacturing, a... (more)
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Driving Digital Transformation through Infrastructure Built for Open Source
Information technology is an industry that has always experienced change, and
the dramatic change sweeping across the industry today could not be
truthfully described as the first time we've seen such widespread change
impacting customer investments. However, the rate of the change, and the
potential outcomes from today's digital transformation has the distinct
potential to separate the industry into two camps: Organizations that see the
change coming, embrace it, and successful leverage it; and on the other side,
organizations that will find themselves as roadkill on the technology
highway.
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The World's Largest "Cloud Digital Transformation" Event
@CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2017 New York
(June 6-8, 2017, Javits Center, Manhattan)
@CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2017 S... (more)
20th International Cloud Expo, taking place June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits
Center in New York City, NY, will feature technical sessions from a rock star
conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world.
Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all
sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the
reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a
hybrid cloud strategy. Meanwhile, 94% of enterprises are using some form of
XaaS - software, platform, and infrastructure as a service.
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Cloud Expo is the single show where delegates and technology vendors can meet
to experience and discuss the entire world of the cloud.
Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your
enterprise is as "Cloud-Ready" as it can be!
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How to Use Kibana 4 for Log Analysis
In his General Session at DevOps Summit, Asaf Yigal, Co-Founder & VP of
Product at Logz.io, will explore the value of Kibana 4 for log analysis and
will give a real live, hands-on tutorial on how to set up Kibana 4 and get
the most out of Apache log files.
He will examine three use cases: IT operations, business intelligence, and
security and compliance. This is a hands-on session that will require
participants to bring their own laptops, and we will provide the rest.
Speaker Bio
Asaf Yigal is co-founder and VP of Product at log analytics software company
Logz.io. In the past, he was co-founder of social-trading platform Currensee,
which was later acquired by OANDA. He was also an early employee of server
performance-monitoring company Akorri and storage resource-management startup
Onaro, both of which were acquired by NetApp (NT... (more)
@ThingsExpo Stories By Yeshim Deniz  DevOps is often described as a combination of technology and culture. Without both, DevOps isn't complete. However, applying the culture to outdated technology is a recipe for disaster; as response times grow and connections between teams are delayed by technology, the culture will die. A Nutanix Enterprise Cloud has many benefits that provide the needed base for a true DevOps paradigm. Mar. 26, 2017 12:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,833 | By Elizabeth White  What sort of WebRTC based applications can we expect to see over the next year and beyond? One way to predict development trends is to see what sorts of applications startups are building. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Arin Sime, founder of WebRTC.ventures, will discuss the current and likely future trends in WebRTC application development based on real requests for custom applications from real customers, as well as other public sources of information, Mar. 26, 2017 12:15 AM EDT Reads: 709 | By Yeshim Deniz  Keeping pace with advancements in software delivery processes and tooling is taxing even for the most proficient organizations. Point tools, platforms, open source and the increasing adoption of private and public cloud services requires strong engineering rigor - all in the face of developer demands to use the tools of choice. As Agile has settled in as a mainstream practice, now DevOps has emerged as the next wave to improve software delivery speed and output. To make DevOps work, organization... Mar. 26, 2017 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,689 | By Elizabeth White  As businesses adopt functionalities in cloud computing, it’s imperative that IT operations consistently ensure cloud systems work correctly – all of the time, and to their best capabilities. In his session at @BigDataExpo, Bernd Harzog, CEO and founder of OpsDataStore, will present an industry answer to the common question, “Are you running IT operations as efficiently and as cost effectively as you need to?” He will expound on the industry issues he frequently came up against as an analyst, and... Mar. 26, 2017 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,103 | By Liz McMillan  My team embarked on building a data lake for our sales and marketing data to better understand customer journeys. This required building a hybrid data pipeline to connect our cloud CRM with the new Hadoop Data Lake. One challenge is that IT was not in a position to provide support until we proved value and marketing did not have the experience, so we embarked on the journey ourselves within the product marketing team for our line of business within Progress.
In his session at @BigDataExpo, Sum... Mar. 25, 2017 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,759 | By Liz McMillan  Apache Hadoop is emerging as a distributed platform for handling large and fast incoming streams of data. Predictive maintenance, supply chain optimization, and Internet-of-Things analysis are examples where Hadoop provides the scalable storage, processing, and analytics platform to gain meaningful insights from granular data that is typically only valuable from a large-scale, aggregate view. One architecture useful for capturing and analyzing streaming data is the Lambda Architecture, represent... Mar. 25, 2017 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 5,973 | By Elizabeth White  Things are changing so quickly in IoT that it would take a wizard to predict which ecosystem will gain the most traction. In order for IoT to reach its potential, smart devices must be able to work together. Today, there are a slew of interoperability standards being promoted by big names to make this happen: HomeKit, Brillo and Alljoyn. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Adam Justice, vice president and general manager of Grid Connect, will review what happens when smart devices don’t work togethe... Mar. 25, 2017 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,562 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Ocean9will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Ocean9 provides cloud services for Backup, Disaster Recovery (DRaaS) and instant Innovation, and redefines enterprise infrastructure with its cloud native subscription offerings for mission critical SAP workloads. Mar. 25, 2017 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,935 | By Pat Romanski  In his session at @ThingsExpo, Eric Lachapelle, CEO of the Professional Evaluation and Certification Board (PECB), will provide an overview of various initiatives to certifiy the security of connected devices and future trends in ensuring public trust of IoT.
Eric Lachapelle is the Chief Executive Officer of the Professional Evaluation and Certification Board (PECB), an international certification body. His role is to help companies and individuals to achieve professional, accredited and worldw... Mar. 25, 2017 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 511 |  SYS-CON Events announced today that Technologic Systems Inc., an embedded systems solutions company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Technologic Systems is an embedded systems company with headquarters in Fountain Hills, Arizona. They have been in business for 32 years, helping more than 8,000 OEM customers and building over a hundred COTS products that have never been discontinued. Technologic Systems’ pr... Mar. 25, 2017 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,285 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that CA Technologies has been named “Platinum Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CA Technologies helps customers succeed in a future where every business – from apparel to energy – is being rewritten by software. From ... Mar. 25, 2017 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,716 | By Liz McMillan  The taxi industry never saw Uber coming. Startups are a threat to incumbents like never before, and a major enabler for startups is that they are instantly “cloud ready.” If innovation moves at the pace of IT, then your company is in trouble. Why? Because your data center will not keep up with frenetic pace AWS, Microsoft and Google are rolling out new capabilities
In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Don Browning, VP of Cloud Architecture at Turner, will posit that disruption is inevitable for c... Mar. 25, 2017 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,040 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloudistics, an on-premises cloud computing company, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Cloudistics delivers a complete public cloud experience with composable on-premises infrastructures to medium and large enterprises. Its software-defined technology natively converges network, storage, compute, virtualization, and management into a ... Mar. 25, 2017 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,882 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that Loom Systems will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Founded in 2015, Loom Systems delivers an advanced AI solution to predict and prevent problems in the digital business. Loom stands alone in the industry as an AI analysis platform requiring no prior math knowledge from operators, leveraging the existing staff to succeed in the digital era. With offices in S... Mar. 25, 2017 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,178 | By Carmen Gonzalez The explosion of new web/cloud/IoT-based applications and the data they generate are transforming our world right before our eyes. In this rush to adopt these new technologies, organizations are often ignoring fundamental questions concerning who owns the data and failing to ask for permission to conduct invasive surveillance of their customers. Organizations that are not transparent about how their systems gather data telemetry without offering shared data ownership risk product rejection, regu... Mar. 25, 2017 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,060 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that SoftLayer, an IBM Company, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 18th Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York, New York. SoftLayer, an IBM Company, provides cloud infrastructure as a service from a growing number of data centers and network points of presence around the world. SoftLayer’s customers range from Web startups to global enterprises. Mar. 25, 2017 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,547 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that CrowdReviews.com has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 6–8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. CrowdReviews.com is a transparent online platform for determining which products and services are the best based on the opinion of the crowd. The crowd consists of Internet users that have experienced products and services first-hand and have an interest in letting other potential buyers... Mar. 25, 2017 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,556 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that T-Mobile will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. As America's Un-carrier, T-Mobile US, Inc., is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services through leading product and service innovation. The Company's advanced nationwide 4G LTE network delivers outstanding wireless experiences to 67.4 million customers who are unwilling to compromise on ... Mar. 25, 2017 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,094 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Infranics will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Since 2000, Infranics has developed SysMaster Suite, which is required for the stable and efficient management of ICT infrastructure. The ICT management solution developed and provided by Infranics continues to add intelligence to the ICT infrastructure through the IMC (Infra Management Cycle) based on mathemat... Mar. 25, 2017 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,926 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that SD Times | BZ Media has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 6–8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. BZ Media LLC is a high-tech media company that produces technical conferences and expositions, and publishes a magazine, newsletters and websites in the software development, SharePoint, mobile development and commercial UAV markets. Mar. 25, 2017 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,221 |
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The rise of containers and microservices has skyrocketed the rate at which new applications are moved into production environments today. While developers have been deploying containers to speed up the development processes for some time, there still remain challenges with running microservices efficiently. Most existing IT monitoring tools don’t actually maintain visibility into the containers that make up microservices. As those container applications move into production, some IT operations t...
We all know the story: a farm, a kid, a Commodore 64, and a modem maxing out at 300 bps. A few unexpected phone bills later, and young Ian Allison is figuring out how to game the system so he can keep using his newfound gateway to the world of tech. According to Ian, that is where he began building the foundation of skills for his career in computer security. At the recent All Day DevOps conference, Ian (@iallison), now with Intuit, talked about his history of being "that" security guy. You kno...
InformationWeek recently ran an article I wrote that describes CollabNet's work with non-profit #YesWeCode. This Dream Corps initiative aims to help young adults find careers and success in the tech industry.
In the article, I address the growing need for new talent in the tech industry:
"The U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics estimates that there will be one million more IT jobs than computer science students in the U.S. by 2020. The software development field in particular is expected to se...
End-user experience is everything when it comes to facilitating workplace productivity. You could deploy or develop the most powerful applications anyone has ever seen-but they won't do any good if they offer a poor experience. This is a major reason why applications are moving to SaaS, PaaS and IaaS cloud computing models. The cloud simplifies applications on the back end, which translates to smoother end-user experiences.
But as cloud apps integrate more services and user bases diversify, IT ...
Given the popularity of the containers, further investment in the telco/cable industry is needed to transition existing VM-based solutions to containerized cloud native deployments. The networking architecture of the solution isolates the network traffic into different network planes (e.g., management, control, and media). This naturally makes support for multiple interfaces in container orchestration engines an indispensable requirement. 
BYOD. IoT. Cloud computing. DevOps. IT professionals today have more demands (and more acronyms) on their time than ever. Application development and delivery are changing rapidly and increasing in complexity, revealing the limitations of traditional DNS approaches in achieving modern network goals. The IT department has made use of open source platforms for decades to provide DNS and traffic management in their internal networks and for their public, internet-facing services. The majority of DN...
It's 3 am in California, and you are still awake trying to sort through a release process that has been delayed by several hours. The deployment to the main application cluster took several extra hours due to an unanticipated problem with the servers, and now everyone is waiting on the lead database administrator to call into a conference bridge so you can all move on to Step 53.5b of the deployment. Your production deployments always seem to be problematic and this one might be the worst you've...
One hour before March Madness is about to begin, the CBS Sports app crashes. Per Twitter, college basketball fans across the country are freaking out, trying to get their last minute bracket changes completed before the first game begins.
Millions of fans around the world are expected to tune in to America's most-watched amateur sports tournament, and for many, competing with friends and coworkers to create a winning bracket is one of the primary appeals of watching.
Information Technology has advanced in different areas at different speeds. This has always been true, as people found workable solutions to the problems that faced them today, most often before there was a market for those solutions. While things like virtualization and eventually cloud computing grew slowly, programming languages sat at the same point for around a decade before the current round of new languages and approaches—Python, Ruby, Node, Swift—came about. These things seem unrelated, ...
Adding public cloud resources to an existing application can be a daunting process. The tools that you currently use to manage the software and hardware outside the cloud aren’t always the best tools to efficiently grow into the cloud. All of the major configuration management tools have cloud orchestration plugins that can be leveraged, but there are also cloud-native tools that can dramatically improve the efficiency of managing your application lifecycle.
Providing the needed data for application development and testing is a huge headache for most organizations. The problems are often the same across companies - speed, quality, cost, and control. Provisioning data can take days or weeks, every time a refresh is required. Using dummy data leads to quality problems. Creating physical copies of large data sets and sending them to distributed teams of developers eats up expensive storage and bandwidth resources. And, all of these copies proliferating...
Ask any IT person from the financial sector about SOX requirements and they’ll probably use some colorful language about how much time and money it sucks away. According to the 2016 Sarbanes-Oxley compliance survey by global consultant Protiviti, the average annual internal cost of SOX Compliance Costs is over $1.2 million dollars, with 27% of these firms spending 2 million or more.
Software development is a moving target. You have to keep your eye on trends in the tech space that haven’t even happened yet just to stay current. Consider what’s happened with augmented reality (AR) in this year alone. If you said you were working on an AR app in 2015, you might have gotten a lot of blank stares or jokes about Google Glass. Then Pokémon GO happened. Like AR, the trends listed below have been building steam for some time, but they’ll be taking off in surprising new directions b...
To make sure we’re on the same page, let’s start by defining what we mean by a silo.
“They are nothing more than barriers… between departments… causing people… to work against each other.” -Patrick Lencioni in 'Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars'
Thanks to the work of Lencioni we have a good framework for understanding the differences in performance of small and large teams within complex organizations.
Everyone wants to use containers, but monitoring containers is hard. New ephemeral architecture introduces new challenges in how monitoring tools need to monitor and visualize containers, so your team can make sense of everything. In his session at @DevOpsSummit, David Gildeh, co-founder and CEO of Outlyer, will go through the challenges and show there is light at the end of the tunnel if you use the right tools and understand what you need to be monitoring to successfully use containers in your...
Few questions in software development are more divisive or tribal than choice of programming language. Software developers often identify strongly with their tools of choice, freely mixing objective facts with subjective preference.
The last decade, however, has seen an explosion both in the number of languages used in production and the number of languages an individual developer is likely to employ day to day. That means that language affiliations are sometimes spread more loosely and broadly...
@DevOpsSummit has been named the ‘Top DevOps Influencer' by iTrend.
iTrend processes millions of conversations, tweets, interactions, news articles, press releases, blog posts - and extract meaning form them and analyzes mobile and desktop software platforms used to communicate, various metadata (such as geo location), and automation tools.
In overall placement, @DevOpsSummit ranked as the number one ‘DevOps Influencer' followed by @CloudExpo at third, and @MicroservicesE at 24th.
If technical debt were like monetary debt, it would be hard to keep track of it unless you checked in manually. The only way many people find out their checking account is running out of funds is by logging in and checking the balance — or, worse, having a check bounce or a debit card declined.
But measuring technical debt can be more automatic. That’s because, unlike your bank account, your IT infrastructure can be monitored on an ongoing basis with specialized tools, and you can get notifie...
Containerization is popularly viewed as the ‘virtualization of virtualization’ or ‘next generation virtualization.’ However, containers have existed long before virtualization or the advent of modern container technology like Docker and Linux Containers. Similar tech was built into mainframe systems that pervaded the IT landscape for the preceding decades.
However, the implication, as the name suggests, is that modern software containerization will have the same seismic impact on the IT industr...
Meteor is a full-stack JavaScript platform for developing modern web and mobile applications. It includes developer tools, websockets, MongoDB integration, and a package manager. Atmosphere.js is the Meteor package manager. Unfortunately, it doesn’t list many Meteor monitoring solutions. Luckily, thanks to the Meteor npm integration, it is possible to use npm packages for monitoring Meteor apps with npm based monitoring solutions, such as SPM for Node.js monitoring. SPM for Node.js collects k...
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