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Become an InfluxDB Inventor

As InfluxDB continues to grow and improve, more and more developers are using it as the platform of choice for their own solutions. Most of these solutions range from filling niche internal needs to solving common problems faced by entire industries, but some of them are extraordinary for their impact, innovation, or how much they push the boundaries of what is possible with the technology. In order to recognize those, we are launching the InfluxDB Inventors program.

Shipping AWS Lambda Metrics to Logz.io

Serverless computing has taken off in recent years with more efficient cloud services. AWS Lambda is a great example of this, where provisioning and management of resources happens from the service’s end. You only have to deal with the code. This article will give a brief overview of AWS Lambda in contrast to EC2 instances, then walk through shipping AWS Lambda metrics to Logz.io.

New ways to manage custom Cloud Monitoring dashboards

Earlier this year, we added a Dashboard API to Cloud Monitoring, allowing you to manage custom dashboards and charts programmatically, in addition to managing them with the Google Cloud Console. Since then, you’ve asked us to provide more sample dashboard templates that target specific Google Cloud services. Many of you have also asked us to provide a Terraform module to help you set up an automated deployment process.

6 steps we took to regain control of our Azure spend at SquaredUp

In this write-up of our special webinar, we'll give you an insider’s look into how we took control of our Azure costs, and how you can do the same. We’ll take you through how we identified the problems and implemented lasting solutions to keep things under control. You’ll get to hear from our key stakeholders involved - Finance, Management, IT, Engineering.

LogicMonitor Lunch and Learn: Intelligent Monitoring with Ted Baker

In this virtual lunch & learn, John Rakowski, VP of Strategy at LogicMonitor, is remotely joined by Simon Brealy, Head of IT at Ted Baker, to discuss the pain points LogicMonitor was able to help Ted Baker solve for. Learn how Ted Baker is using LogicMonitor in some very innovative ways to adapt to a remote work environment and strategize and plan for future business operations.

6 Tips for Application Developers to Make Java Applications Faster

Application developers and application operations personnel are together responsible for ensuring that Java web applications perform well. In an earlier blog, we had discussed 7 configurations that Application Operations teams can use to make their Java applications high-performing. In this blog, we will focus on Application Developers and discuss 6 ways in which they can enhance the performance of their Java applications.

How do you optimize your infrastructure in the midst of such reactive transformation?

The pandemic has heightened IT leaders’ need for efficiency in managing what we’re seeing more and more as a hybrid cloud world. We recently polled IT leaders across the US and EMEA on their current challenges, changes, and goals around hybrid cloud deployments, infrastructure visibility, use of AI/ML, and more.

Top 10 Web Development Frameworks in 2020

In this era, where there is a big competition in the digital world; web designing and web development plays a major role in the success of the web applications. Everyday advancements in the technologies pushes the developers to stay updated in the latest web development frameworks by learning various frameworks. In order to build a rich and interactive web applications thousands of developers are endorse in the use of frameworks.