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Using IT monitoring in an organization’s infrastructure can improve its reliability and help prevent serious issues, failures, and downtimes. There are different approaches to implementing IT monitoring, by either using dedicated tools or native functionality. With either approach, you can view the monitoring data when needed or configure automatic alerts and reports to be notified of important events. This blog post explains how to enhance the IT monitoring strategy by using alarms and reports. The Importance of IT Monitoring and…

Microsoft 365 is a set of reliable cloud services that is generally used to streamline productivity and collaboration. However, it is recommended that you back up your Microsoft 365 data to avoid data loss and disruptions based on Microsoft’s shared responsibility policy for user data. Cloud storage is one of the best choices for storing Microsoft 365 backups. This blog post explains how to back up Microsoft 365 to Wasabi cloud storage. Read on to discover the main advantages, benefits…

Smart home automation brings convenience and innovation to everyday living, and now you can create your own smart system from scratch. By using ESP32 microcontrollers, LEDs, servo motors, and either a Raspberry Pi or your laptop, you’ll gain the skills to build a complete home automation system with this project-based course. This course emphasizes industry-standard tools and best practices, making it an excellent resource for beginners and experienced developers alike. We just published a Home Automation with ESP32 course on…

Have you ever considered how your phone can recognize handwritten text and convert it into regular computer text? Or how your email can separate messages automatically into spam and non-spam categories? Both of these examples work based on classification tasks, as does the facial recognition feature on your phone. When building a classification algorithm, real-world data often has a non-linear relationship. And many machine learning classification algorithms struggle with non-linear algorithms. But in this article, we’ll be looking at how…

Spreadsheets are an essential tool for managing data, solving problems, and automating workflows, whether you’re a student, professional, or hobbyist. Mastering them can unlock countless possibilities in productivity and creativity. Imagine automating emails, creating dynamic calendars, or generating invoices—all with just Excel or Google Sheets. This course offers a practical and hands-on way to take your spreadsheet skills to the next level. We just published a Spreadsheet Projects course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel, developed by Eamonn Cottrell. In this…

Recently, I published an article about using Testcontainers to emulate external dependencies like a database and cache for backend integration tests. That article also explained the different ways of running the integration tests, environment scaffolding, and their pros and cons. In this article, I want to show another alternative in case you use GitHub Actions as your CI platform (the most popular CI/CD solution at the moment). This alternative is called Service Containers, and I’ve realized that not many developers…

As a programming community, freeCodeCamp helps many people who have questions about their code. It can be quite tempting to simply provide the learner with the answer and move on, but that’s actually detrimental to the learning process. Here’s why: When you give someone the answer, you are depriving them of that “aha” moment. You are removing the opportunity for them to learn how to reach the conclusion through their own thinking, and instead allowing them to progress with minimal…

Subdomains are an essential part of a website’s infrastructure. They provide additional functions in a web application, such as APIs, admin portals, and staging environments. As an ethical hacker, discovering subdomains is a critical step in learning the attack surface of a target. Subdomains might not be protected well, unlike the main domain. So they can be a great entry point for security auditing or bug bounty programs. In this article, I’ll walk you through how to find subdomains using…

Creating unique projects is one of the best ways to grow as a programmer, and what better way to learn than by building something creative for the holiday season? Imagine crafting a festive Christmas calendar from scratch, generating eye-catching, customizable icons for each day leading up to December 25th. This project is perfect for enhancing your JavaScript skills while spreading some holiday cheer! And you can do it anytime of the year! We just published a course on the freeCodeCamp.org…