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We’re excited to introduce Netdata 1.30.0. The ACLK-NG is a new, faster method of securely connecting a node running Netdata to Netdata Cloud. In our internal testing, it’s 4x faster than our previous implementation, which uses libmosquitto and libwebsockets.

The tools and workflows you choose can make or break your project. In this article, I’ll walk you through the top ten build automation tools on the market today, so you can choose solutions that will help you best optimize your projects.

A year ago, we wrote about our experiences as early adopters of Graviton2, and how we were able to see 30% price-performance improvements on one dogfood workload from switching to the arm64 architecture. In those initial experiments, we validated running 20% fewer shepherd ingest workers, using the m6g instance type, which cost 10% less per instance compared to c5 instances.

In our latest tools guide, we wanted to gather insights from a number of real users of these two giants in the Git & version control space to help you decide between using Github or Gitlab for your latest software development project. “GitHub is a common and easy-to-use website to host code in a way that's shareable with a large number of people”, states Melanie, Content Director at KitelyTech.

The Virtana team are excited to announce that we have pledged to be a Customer First vendor in the ITOM (IT Operations Management) market for our product(s): VirtualWisdom, CloudWisdom, Virtana Platform, Virtana Migrate (Cloud Migration Readiness). Our team takes great pride in this program commitment, as customer feedback continues to be a critical priority, and shapes our products and services. Everyone at Virtana is deeply proud to be part of the Customer First program.

Having quick access to metrics and health signals from your AWS environment is paramount to identifying issues expediently and monitoring the effects of any deployed fixes. Datadog is proud to partner with AWS for the launch of CloudWatch Metric Streams, a new feature that allows AWS users to forward metrics from key AWS services to different endpoints, including Datadog, via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose with low latency.

While containers are known for their multiple benefits for the enterprise, one should be aware of the complexity they carry, especially in large scale production environments. Having to deploy, reboot, upgrade or apply patches to patches to hundreds and hundreds of containers is no easy feat, even for experienced IT teams. Different types of Kubernetes solutions have emerged to address this issue.

Your business seeks a high-performance, flexible, cost-effective, and more secure alternative to Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). Welcome to software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs)! An improvement over legacy dedicated MPLS circuits, SD-WAN solutions deliver easily manageable networks with a high quality of service (QoS). Yet, your IT team tells you that SD-WANs aren’t cloud-optimized or mobile-device friendly.