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Modern Applications Episodes

April 13, 2023

Don’t Depend on Maintenance Windows

What happens when a web application you depend on goes offline? It can be inconvenient, disappointing, and potentially cause serious problems for you. But what if you find out that the web application wasn’t working by design...

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Jan. 26, 2023

Independent Third Party Observability with Jeff Martens, CEO Metrist

What happens when observability becomes a commodity and is independently brokered via a third party? My guest today is Jeff Martens, who is the co-founder and CEO of Metrist, an independent third-party observability platform....

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Nov. 21, 2022

ICYMI: DevOps with Mitch Ashley, CTO of Techstrong Group (DevOps.com)

This is an encore episode of Modern Digital Business DevOps is now more mainstream. If you and your organization aren’t using DevOps principles, you are at a distinct disadvantage compared to your competition. And, “Doing Dev...

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Nov. 7, 2022

Cloud-Native Observability with Bruno Kurtic, Sumo Logic

Operating a modern digital business means building and operating large, highly-scaled applications that are more and more cloud-native in their architecture and implementation. Observability is critical in maintaining the hig...

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Sept. 26, 2022

ModernOps with Beth Long: Transferring Operational Expertise to the C…

Today on Modern Digital Business, we continue our highly successful series called ModernOps. ModernOps is a series of interviews co-hosted with a good friend of mine, Beth long, who is the head of product at jeli.io, an incid...

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Sept. 12, 2022

DevOps with Mitch Ashley, CTO of Techstrong Group (DevOps.com)

DevOps is now more mainstream. If you and your organization aren’t using DevOps principles, you are at a distinct disadvantage compared to your competition. And, “Doing DevOps” does not mean simply “hiring a DevOps team”. The...

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Aug. 29, 2022

8 Steps to higher quality DNS systems

DNS is a highly available, highly redundant, highly reliable service that is absolutely essential to your company's application and business operations. A failure in your DNS system can bring your company's business to a ha...

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Aug. 15, 2022

Technical debt will sink you

The pandemic accelerated many large scale digital transformations. Accelerated application growth often leads to increased technical debt. Technical debt makes it difficult for leaders to innovate and create new and improved ...

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July 25, 2022

The Finances of a Cloud Migration

How are the finances of your company affected by a Cloud Migration? Showing a financial benefit of using the cloud can be a bit tricky. You need to show that shutting down an operating data center and moving that money …

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