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Using GRPC with Python Best Practices Guide

Microservices are now the architecture of choice for many developers when crafting cloud-native applications. A microservices application is a collection of loosely coupled services that communicate with each other, enhancing collaboration, maintainability, scalability, and deployment. There are several options for enabling this communication between microservices. When it comes to Python, gRPC and REST are two extremely popular directions to go.

Maximizing IIoT Impact with Open Data, AI, and Advanced Analytics: A Comprehensive Guide

This tech paper was created by IIoT World and InfluxDB. This post was originally published on IIoT World. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is revolutionizing industries like manufacturing, energy, and logistics by creating more intelligent, interconnected systems that elevate productivity and efficiency. With IIoT, machines, systems, and sensors are linked in real-time, streamlining industrial automation and making predictive maintenance a reality—all while reducing downtime and costs.

WSL2 for Firmware Development

This guide provides instructions for setting up an environment for developing, debugging, and programming embedded systems firmware in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2). WSL2 provides a convenient and stable Linux development environment for working on embedded systems firmware. If you’re curious about toolchain performance, check out this comparison of firmware development environments, but the summary is that WSL2 is about 2x the speed of Windows and similar to “bare metal” Linux.

This Month in Datadog: Monitor OpenAI costs, Kubernetes Active Remediation, IaC Security, and more

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. To learn more about Datadog and start a free 14-day trial, visit Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog. This month, we put the Spotlight on Datadog Cloud Cost Management for OpenAI.

InvGate Service Management: 6 AI Superpowers to Augment Service Desk Agents' Capabilities

At InvGate, we are committed to harnessing the power of AI to redefine Service Management practices. Since launching AI Hub, featuring the first wave of AI-powered capabilities within InvGate Service Management and Asset Management, over 50% of our clients have adopted them and saved dozens of thousands of hours. Our most impactful solutions have focused on enhancing decision-making processes, enabling teams to work smarter and achieve better outcomes.

Grafana LLM plugin updates: choose the LLM models and providers that work best for you

At Grafana Labs, our mission has always been to empower users with the tools they need to build their own observability solutions. Our big tent philosophy embodies this mission by allowing you to choose the tools and technologies that best suit your needs. In this post, we want to share an update to our LLM plugin that reflects this philosophy in action.

Beyond Transcription: How Synthetic Rooms Are Solving Voice AI's Hardest Open Problem

Since Google researchers introduced the Transformer architecture in Attention Is All You Need in 2017, language models have become dramatically better at processing and generating text. After ChatGPT's public release in late 2022, the ambition around voice systems expanded quickly. Meeting software, clinical scribes, speech-infrastructure companies, and voice-agent startups all began chasing a larger idea: spoken conversation could become structured, searchable, and actionable.