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Why Uptime Monitoring Is Essential for Your Business

Website downtime is a serious concern for businesses as it directly impacts the bottom line and can cause significant downstream effects as users turn to alternatives. You and your team can spend hundreds of hours to improve your websites, add new features, and create great content. If your website comes down at a critical moment, these efforts are wasted and users are left wondering about your business’ ability to function in the digital world.

The Consolidation of Networking Tasks in Engineering

In recent years, the rapid development of cloud-based networking, network abstractions such as SD-WAN, and controller-based campus networking has meant that basic, day-to-day network operations have become easier for non-network engineers. The result we’re starting to see today is a sort of consolidation of networking tasks, leading to a need for only a small number of highly skilled network engineers to handle the less frequent heavy lifting of advanced design and troubleshooting.

Webinar Recap: Observability Data Orchestration

Today, businesses are generating more data than ever before. However, with this data explosion comes a new set of challenges, including increased complexity, higher costs, and difficulty extracting value. With this in mind, how can organizations effectively manage this data to extract value and solve the challenges of the modern data stack?

Preventing Outages in 2023

The outages span the giants of the Internet and some of the biggest failures of IT resilience we were subject to – from AWS’s trifecta of outages in December 2021 to the October ‘21 outage that took down Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and interrelated services. We also look at some more intermittent outages that you may have missed.

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How Hybrid Cloud Adoption Will Drive the Need for AIOps

Push came to shove with disruption and innovation during the pandemic. Enterprises started leveraging new technologies to gain competitive advantage, enter new markets, support employees from home and maintain business continuity. As a result, IT is faced with new challenges that are critical for realizing the value of the digital transformation that started and accelerated during the pandemic. To state the obvious, CIOs must manage an IT infrastructure that’s safe, sound and secure.

Best Practices for MongoDB Monitoring with Prometheus

The MongoDB document-oriented database is one of the most popular database tools available today. Developed as an open-source project, MongoDB is highly scalable and can be set up in your environment in just a few simple steps. When running and managing databases, monitoring is a key requirement.

Understand serverless function performance with Cold Start Tracing

Serverless developers are undoubtedly familiar with the challenge of cold starts, which describe spikes in latency caused by new function containers being initialized in response to increasing traffic. Though cold starts are usually rare in production deployments, it’s still important to understand their causes and how to mitigate their impact on your workload.