Business organizations that want to save money and be competitive take into consideration the time costs associated with investments in new technologies. Will the efficiency gains translate to a rapid return on investment? Will users embrace the change and be more productive? Or will those investments be a hassle to employees and result in time-wasting workarounds and a fallback to inefficient, manual processes?

Data is a modern company’s greatest asset, if used effectively. After all, in our always-connected economy, the most valuable business applications are data-driven. Customers expect real-time interactions powered by millions of end-points and massive amounts of data. To remain competitive in the market, organizations are adopting fast data applications to create new business models and transform industries, and Kubernetes is increasing the velocity with which they can be deployed.

Monitoring indoor air quality with Airthings and Netdata. Understanding and measuring common contaminants and pollutants reduces your risk of air quality health concerns.

Everyone’s talking about Platform Engineering these days. Even Gartner recently featured it in its Hype Cycle for Software Engineering 2022. But what is Platform Engineering really about? Is it the next stage in the evolution of DevOps? Is it just a fancy rebrand for DevOps or SRE? As a veteran of the PaaS (Platform as a Service) discipline about a decade ago, and a DevOps enthusiast at present, I decided to delve into this topic, peel off the hype, and see what it’s about in practice.

Before exploring open-source dashboard tools, we first need to learn about Dashboards and how they can be useful. A dashboard is a data visualization and management tool that visually tracks and analyzes the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), business analytics metrics, infrastructure health and status, and data points for an organization, team, or process. It can be used to present operational and analytical business data with interactive data visualizations to your team.

IT admins face pressure from all sides. Besides tracking and securing data across devices, they must also manage a changing inventory of physical and digital assets while adhering to an executive directive to make technology an enabler for growth. Software deployment can be a particularly daunting task. Deploying software through an automated solution is just a click of a button, but what are the don’ts to keep in mind?