I just spent part of my morning writing up internal documentation to operationalize so-called SEO competitor analysis. If you don’t believe me and think this is just a rhetorical flourish, here’s a really boring screenshot. As I was doing this, my last step was to record a high-level explanation of the document, which included…
12 Best Practices to Improve Incident Management Today’s fast-paced digital world can lead to system breakdown and disruptions that strain organizational resources. What truly distinguishes successful organizations is their response when problems occur. Incident management serves this function. At its core, incident management involves teams managing unexpected disruptions quickly with minimal impact to users or business…
This isn’t a clickbait title. I genuinely stand by the position that “SEO consulting” is a service that shouldn’t exist in the economy. But before I dive into specifics and my case, I do want to offer a couple of important caveats. I wouldn’t dispute that some SEO consultants offer some economic value and provide…
C# Delegates: Definition, Types & Examples The C# delegate is an essential “construct” in the C# programming language. Delegates are essential for event handling, LINQ queries, asynchronous programming and more. And you can, of course, make use of delegates to make your code simpler and more concise. This post from Carlos Schults on Stackify’s blog offers you…
Nornir vs. Ansible: How to Choose? When it comes to automation and configuration management, the market has a plethora of choices. Two notable tools that often come up in conversations among developers are Nornir and Ansible. If you’re reading this, chances are you’re trying to decide between the two. So, what exactly are they, and…
I’ve been on a listening tour of late, talking to product marketers that own their business’s content production, among others. My aim has been to discover subtle pain points, identify patterns, and possibly develop productized services to help. A couple of weeks ago, I heard something interesting. “We have in-house engineers that want to contribute…
Network Infrastructure Monitoring: Getting Started The rapid evolution of technology profoundly impacts network infrastructure monitoring. New technologies such as containerization, microservices, and serverless computing introduce complexities that require monitoring solutions to adapt. The shift to DevOps practices, where development and operations teams collaborate closely, emphasizes the need for real-time monitoring and feedback loops to ensure…
What is an Unhandled Exception and How to Find Them In the world of programming, exceptions are inevitable. They represent unexpected or exceptional events that can occur during the execution of a program. While some exceptions might be anticipated and handled gracefully, others might be unexpected, leading to application crashes or unexpected behavior. This guide…
Today I’m going to dive into a topic and a situation that comes up constantly among clients and prospects. It’s the “You say you want organic traffic, but do you really?” conversation. Historically, I’ve tended to have this conversation live. But it comes up so often that I’m going to immortalize it here, in written form,…
5 Useful NetBox Plugins and How to Use Them NetBox is a powerful open-source web application designed to help manage and document computer networks. It provides an elegant way to visualize your network infrastructure, IP addresses, and other vital components. However, one of the most potent aspects of NetBox is its plugin system, which allows…
Lately, within the account management function of Hit Subscribe, we’ve been swatting around a philosophical question. Rather than having disparate sales and account management departments, could a unified customer success group serve both functions for our business? We currently, tentatively believe that the answer is “yes,” and we’re proceeding accordingly. But to make this work,…
Ansible Dynamic Inventory: When and How to Use It In our rapidly evolving world of technology, automation has become a sine qua non for IT departments. And when we talk about IT automation, Ansible is a name that immediately comes to mind owing to its power and simplicity. It provides capabilities ranging from simple task…
What are Microservices? Code Examples, Best Practices, Tutorials and More Microservices are increasingly used in the development world as developers work to create larger, more complex applications that are better developed and managed as a combination of smaller services that work cohesively together for more extensive, application-wide functionality. Tools such as Service Fabric are rising to meet…
I’m going to dive into something today that I consider nuanced but profound. And I’m going to attempt to do this with some modicum of decorum, since most of the (non-freelancer) content I create for Hit Subscribe I intend specifically for clients and prospects. It’s a risky “call your baby ugly but do it gently”…
10 Ticket Handling Best Practices and How to Implement Them An efficient ticketing process can make a small startup look like a large enterprise. At the same time, it can also make a large enterprise seem as approachable as a startup. With this in mind, you can’t simply deploy an off-the-shelf ticketing system and hope for…