The managed IT services is evolving at a breakneck pace, driven by complexity and constant change. As highlighted in Gartner’s 2024 Hype Cycle for Managed IT Services, several emerging trends and innovations are set to transform the landscape. For leaders in sourcing, procurement, and vendor management, understanding these developments is crucial for strategic planning. This blog post explores key innovations in managed IT services, providing examples and insights relevant to our work at Testhouse.

Hey there, website owners and tech enthusiasts! Today, we’re diving into something crucial for your online presence – how to set up domain expiration monitoring. Imagine your website going offline just because you missed the renewal date of your domain. Scary, right? That’s where domain expiration monitoring comes in handy. It keeps an eye on your domain’s expiration date and alerts you well in advance, so you never have to worry about losing your domain.

A predictable, stable environment (in terms of your operating system, system libraries, build tools, and programming libraries) is essential to each development step: from onboarding, to collaboration, continuous integration, quality assurance, and deployment. Deviation can cause one-off, intermittent, and even catastrophic failures. However, consistency can be elusive, even with the best intentions, best practices, and tools in place, because: Nix aims to solve some of these issues.

Automation has unleashed unprecedented productivity and profits for organizations. By automating formerly manual tasks, businesses see efficiency gains, reduced human error, cost savings, and improved innovation. Automation frees employees for creative work and work that requires human intervention. To facilitate this, many organizations have stitched together a wide range of automation tools. This includes robotic process automation (RPA), generative AI, predictive AI, and business process management.

We released two big updates to our Sketches feature: a much improved UI and a dedicated link in the navigation bar. You can now visually convey your ideas, designs, and plans effortlessly.

Multiplayer brings every piece of the system design puzzle into a single platform. By integrating with GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket repositories, we enable users to access, view, and (in the future) modify source code within the context of their platform's design.

The Crowdstrike outage impacted everything from getting groceries delivered to airplanes. What did we all learn? Understand and learn how to prevent software outages in the future.

APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are rapidly evolving, with companies like us increasingly leveraging generative AI to create and consume APIs. In Gartner’s 2024 Hype Cycle for APIs, several key trends and innovations are highlighted that software engineering leaders and their teams should be aware of. From the rise of event-driven APIs to the challenges of API security, this blog post will explore the most significant developments in the API landscape.

The Snowflake AI Data Cloud is an end-to-end platform that supports all types of data, compute, use cases and personas across an entire organization. By delivering a single, unified platform for all users, it is no surprise that organizations continue to expand their use cases on Snowflake. And therefore, it is extremely important for us to reaffirm our commitment to price-performant queries for our customers on a consistent basis.

The high-stakes world of software development is a race to deliver quality features, faster. When the testing phase of the development lifecycle is slowed by inefficient and error-prone processes, it’s impossible for teams to meet their deadlines. How can they keep up? By taking a smarter approach to test management that prioritizes efficiency without sacrificing quality. By implementing these four test management strategies, teams can work smarter and shorten their release cycles.