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What does Netflix, eBay and Walmart have in common? They all use Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is a real-time open-source distributed search and analytics engine built on top of Apache Lucene™, a fulltext search-engine library and developed in Java. Elasticsearch started as a scalable version of the Lucene open-source search framework that uses a structure based on documents instead of tables and schemas and comes with extensive REST APIs for storing and searching the data.

During an InfluxData internal hackathon, I was looking to work on a project that would help me strengthen my Telegraf and Flux skills. I also wanted to use InfluxData’s Giraffe to visualize my project in a React application. After reading Sean Brickley’s blog post on tracking the International Space Station with InfluxDB, I was inspired to build on this idea.

You might not think that an IT server monitoring service would have an impact on your net profits. IT-related costs often fall under operational expenses. As such, you have better control over these expenses and can look for different ways you can cut costs without affecting results. Before we get to reviewing some of the ways active network monitoring and server monitoring can help cut operational costs and grow your net profits, let’s do a quick review of net profits.

The online gambling industry (which includes casino games, poker, and sports betting) is growing pretty fast, with no signs of it slowing down. More and more people have access to the Internet via mobile phones or PCs, and people like to gamble. Around 51% of the world’s population are involved in some gambling form.

Exoprise CloudReady provides early detection of mission critical mail outages. On February 3rd, Microsoft had a mail delivery delay, that caused mail delivery failures and an outage. While CloudReady detected the Exchange Online mail delivery error almost 2 hours in advance, Microsoft did finally publish an incident to track the outage.

Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) are part of the package when it comes to defining contracts, particularly with technology service vendors. An SLA serves to define the metrics, expectations, and penalties that the service provider will adhere to, and SLA reports create accountability.

When building a production application, you are usually on the lookout for ways to optimize its performance while keeping any possible trade-offs in mind. In this post, we’ll take a look at an approach that can give you a quick win when it comes to improving the way your Node.js apps handle the workload. An instance of Node.js runs in a single thread which means that on a multi-core system (which most computers are these days), not all cores will be utilized by the app.

In a previous life as an Android developer, a customer reported a nasty bug that we didn’t know how to fix. After what felt like countless hours of debugging and writing back and forth to customer support, our only option left was to get our hands on the users’ local database. However, for a variety of reasons, we couldn’t ask the customer to root the device, copy the database, and send it to us.