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High levels of web traffic can lead to network congestion, often causing network latency, and in some cases, outages. Traffic shaping is a technique that can help prevent network congestion by controlling how much traffic enters and leaves a network. We debuted traffic shaping in the release of HAProxy 2.7 and HAProxy Enterprise 2.7, allowing our users to control client upload and download speeds.
IT alerts are difficult to understand, even for experienced professionals. The language of IT alerts is akin to an enigmatic code requiring fluency in dozens of observability languages to extract technical meaning and business impact from a stream of seemingly disconnected events, alerts, and notifications.
Debugging in a cloud environment can be tricky, as it involves multiple layers of abstraction and virtualization. Unlike traditional on-premise environments, cloud environments are highly distributed and dynamic, making it challenging to identify and troubleshoot issues. One of the biggest challenges with debugging cloud applications is the need for more visibility into the underlying infrastructure and the complexity of the application architecture. Fortunately, pinpointing and resolving the cause of the issue is much more manageable with server-side monitoring, detailed error reporting and cloud debugging solutions.
It may feel like ancient history, but it was only a few years ago that, in response to the pandemic, organizations made a wholesale shift to support hybrid work models—and did so literally overnight, in many cases. While some time has passed, this is a shift to which many IT organizations are still struggling to fully adapt.
Business Wire reports that over the next three years, more than three out of every four businesses believe that they are going to experience major data loss or a breach of data.
