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Comparing Performance and Resource Usage: Grafana Agent vs. Prometheus Agent Mode vs. VictoriaMetrics vmagent

Monitoring and observability are critical components of modern IT infrastructures, enabling organizations to gain insights into the performance, health, and security of their systems. Agents play a crucial role in gathering and forwarding telemetry from various sources to observability platforms.

Time Series, InfluxDB, and Vector Databases

Integrating time series data with the power of vector databases opens up a new frontier for analytics and machine learning applications. Time series data, characterized by its sequential order and timestamps, is pivotal in monitoring and forecasting across various domains, from financial markets to IoT devices. InfluxDB, a leading time series database, excels in handling such data with high efficiency and scalability.

Organizational Barriers That SQL Prompt Breaks Down - Monica Rathbun | Redgate

In this video, Monica Rathbun, Consultant at Denny Cherry and Associates Consulting, explains the organizational barriers that SQL Prompt helps to break down. SQL Prompt enables users to write high quality SQL faster. As well as autocompleting your code, SQL Prompt takes care of formatting, object renaming, and other distractions, so you can concentrate on how the code actually works.

Introducing Charmed MongoDB

Introducing Charmed MongoDB – Canonical’s enterprise-grade MongoDB database offering. Charmed MongoDB simplifies the operations of MongoDB applications through automation, security, scalability, availability and monitoring. Charmed MongoDB is the cost-effective, reliable, secure and scalable way to use MongoDB on any cloud, hybrid cloud or on-premise. It also provides additional support, managed services, and expert services, so enterprises can run MongoDB in production at a lower cost, bug-free and in the most optimised way.

Where's the money? The ROI of test data management

You may have heard of test data management (TDM). It’s part of the software delivery process – some would say a crucial part, involving the creation, management, and maintenance of environments for software development and testing. By provisioning fresh, production-like data, it allows developers to test their proposed changes early, thoroughly, and repeatedly with the right test data, when they need it and where they need it.

My Favourite Feature of SQL Prompt - TJay Belt | Redgate

TJay Belt, Director of Data at Nerd United, shares his favourite feature of SQL Prompt. SQL Prompt enables users to write high quality SQL faster. As well as autocompleting your code, SQL Prompt takes care of formatting, object renaming, and other distractions, so you can concentrate on how the code actually works..

Why test data management is becoming increasingly important to the C-suite

We recently sat down with James Phillips, CIO at Rev.io, to talk about test data management (TDM) and the growing attention it’s getting from the C-suite. It’s been prompted by the recognition that provisioning test and development environments with realistic production-like data improves the quality of code being developed, reduces errors, and deliver new features to customers faster.