Pingdom welcomes Erik Trangärd as frontend dev
Today, Pingdom is proud to announce that we’ve added another great talent to our already amazing lineup of developers. Erik Trangärd will use his skills and experience with JavaScript, Rest, PHP and...
View ArticlePingdom welcomes Filip Salomonsson, developer and language magician...
Just last week we had the great pleasure of welcoming a new developer to Pingdom, and now it’s time for another one. Filip Salomonsson has become one of us in the Pingdom team, bringing his...
View ArticleHelp Pingdom change the world
It would be easy for us to borrow a phrase from Steve Jobs and ask you: “Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?” And the thing...
View ArticleThe seven largest Open Source deals ever
To say that there were some noise on the Web when Sun recently bought MySQL for $1 billion would be an understatement, to say the least. It’s the largest open source deal ever, and the latest in a...
View ArticleIT posters to cover your empty walls
If you’re like us and have lots of empty wall space in your office you need to check out this list. We have collected a list of posters that focus on interesting information rather than nice-looking...
View Article10 interesting open source software forks and why they happened
A benefit of open source software is the ability to take the code base of an application and develop it in a new direction. This is, as most of you probably know, called forking, and is very common in...
View ArticleThe 8 most successful open source products ever
Open source in itself is a success story. From being a niche concept, it has become a mainstream movement (well, more or less) and has received the attention of both individuals and businesses...
View ArticleThe 9 most important events in Open Source history
Have you ever wondered about those key moments in time that made open source software such an immense success story? We just did, and here below is our list. We have narrowed the list down to what we...
View ArticleThe Web is the biggest open source success of all
The open source movement is a popular one, and it’s certainly made its mark on the software landscape. But where has it made its biggest mark? What is the most successful open source endeavor of all...
View ArticleHow we use ZFS to back up 5TB of MySQL data every day
We collect a lot of data every day. In 2012, our monitoring system registered almost 65 million downtimes, we stored 106 billion monitoring results, and we handled other types of data for 300,000+...
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