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Edge Computing Explained

Data is becoming increasingly essential to businesses globally, allowing for insights to be gathered around critical processes and operations. Over time, the traditional systems put in place to hold our data have become unsuitable for modern-day needs due to the continuous growth of data. Edge computing has emerged to reshape the current computing environment and allow data to be processed closer to where it’s being generated.

Announcing New CircleCI + Honeycomb Integration Guide

If you’re writing software today, then you likely use a CI/CD pipeline to build and test your code before deploying it to production. Having a fast and efficient build pipeline saves you development time, shortens feedback loops, and helps you ship features faster. Conversely, slow and unreliable build pipelines are full of lost productivity and sadness.

MTTD: An In-Depth Overview About What It Is and How to Improve It

In this post, we'll learn all about the incident metric mean time to detect (MTTD). We'll see how to measure it and look at its relationship with other incident metrics like MTTR (mean time to recover). Both metrics give useful insights into your incident recovery ability.

Where is data center architecture headed to?

You know what data centers* are, we’ve told you a lot about the on this blog. Today, however, it is time to check out a particular aspect such as the singleness of their architecture**. In addition to what role they play in the present and which one they will play in the future. * Physical facility that organizations use to host their information, applications, critical data… **There’s a good example of alliteration, great rhetorical figure. So let’s go!

How can the financial services sector tackle cloud concentration risk?

The use of cloud computing by financial institutions has significantly increased in the last few years, a trend that was further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the next few years, financial institutions will need to continuously balance the pressure to innovate quickly while managing risk and combating financial crime.

Tableau Review: Tableau vs MetricFire

Every day, businesses monitor system resources for performance, security, performance, and workflows. Otherwise, they jeopardize day-to-day operations when issues go unnoticed. Tableau presents itself as a data-driven monitoring tool that enhances data analysis of physical and virtual server environments. But just how good is it?

SolarWinds Review: SolarWinds vs. MetricFire

SolarWinds is a network and application monitoring solution, but primarily a network monitoring solution. Founded in 1999, the company has built an online community of 150,000 registered users. However, monitoring has come a long way since the early 2000s. How does SolarWinds stack up against MetricFire in terms of features and pricing? In this article, we break down the comparison into easily digestible, unbiased information to help you make an informed decision.