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Using the Downsampling Plugin in InfluxDB 3

Modern systems generate huge volumes of time series data. Advances in hardware and edge instrumentation enable sensors and applications to capture new values every second—or faster—which makes high-frequency measurement easy and affordable. When applied effectively, this steady flow of data reveals early warning signs, highlights subtle performance shifts, and helps teams understand how systems behave in real-time.

Understanding External Attack Surface Management: How It Works and Why It's More Critical Than Ever

Attack surfaces can expand without your organization even realizing it. And, lacking visibility into your external-facing assets and the vulnerabilities they may contain can lead to significant security risks. External attack surface management (EASM) is a cybersecurity approach designed to safeguard your external assets and strengthen your organization's overall security posture.

How to Streamline Employee Appreciation Programs at Scale

Scaling employee appreciation is one of those challenges that sounds deceptively simple on the surface. Most leaders genuinely want to show gratitude, acknowledge hard work, and celebrate the people who keep the organization running. But as a company grows-whether from 50 employees to 500, or from 500 to 5,000-the casual, personal touch that once defined workplace appreciation starts to slip through the cracks. What used to be easy to manage in a small office suddenly becomes scattered, inconsistent, or dependent on a few individuals who are already stretched thin.

5 SOC Challenges You Can Eliminate with a Single Improvement

Overcoming these five challenges commonly faced by SOC teams means taking a quantum leap in performance. The catalyst for this shift is simple: high-quality threat intelligence, an essential component for modern security experts. With accurate, real-time data on malicious indicators, organization can match - or even surpass - results reported by ANY.RUN 's clients who adopted TI solutions: High-quality threat intelligence drives such improvements by solving some of the hardest SOC challenges. Read further to see what they are and how TI helps overcome them.

Future Trends in SSP Development and Programmatic Monetization

The programmatic advertising ecosystem stands at an inflection point where privacy regulations, technology changes, and market consolidation are reshaping how publishers monetize their inventory. SSP platforms must adapt to these shifts or risk becoming obsolete. Understanding emerging trends helps publishers and ad tech companies make strategic decisions about technology investments and partnership priorities.

How Investors Use Crypto Collateral Loans to Maintain Portfolio Growth

Digital assets have introduced new ways for investors to manage liquidity without selling long-term holdings. The concept of borrowing against crypto enables flexibility, allowing participants to access funds while keeping investments intact. These methods offer unique opportunities for portfolio growth through calculated leverage and efficient asset utilization.

Creative Brand Activation Ideas to Inspire Your Next Campaign

Businesses swarm the market, demanding innovation and creativity to capture customer attention. The brands are constantly looking for interesting ways to get the attention of the audience and differentiate themselves. Brand activation has these opportunities to create long-lasting experiences so that consumers will remember your brand. Here in this post we will see some creative brand activation ideas that will positively impact your next campaign.

Autonomous SOC: Moving Toward Self-Driving Security Operations

The idea of a fully autonomous security operations center (SOC) sparks fascination and skepticism in equal measure. Swimlane defines an autonomous SOC as a center that uses AI, machine learning and automation to handle a significant portion of security tasks, including threat detection, triage and even remediation, with minimal human intervention. The goal is to free analysts from repetitive tasks so they can focus on strategy and threat hunting. Although a completely selfdriving SOC remains aspirational, advances in hyperautomation, enterprise automation architectures and AI agents are bringing us closer.

Reliability at Scale: A Conversation with DevOps Leader Ivan Battimiello

For more than a decade, Ivan Battimiello has been building and scaling distributed engineering systems across Europe and the United States. With experience ranging from game development to full-stack engineering and DevOps leadership, he has led operational transformations for global teams, implemented modern reliability frameworks, and introduced advanced automation practices that dramatically reduced system failures.

The Best Customer Service Tools For Small Businesses In 2026

A lot has changed in the business world over the last decade or more. Company priorities have certainly shifted in a digital age, but one thing that hasn't changed is the vital importance of customer service. After all, whatever technologies you implement, sales will always be what matters most.