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This is the first part of a 7-part series on the salient features that IT professionals should look for in high-performing IT infrastructure orchestration platforms for enterprise use cases.

Democratize observability for engineering teams of all sizes! That’s the vision that drives us every day. SigNoz is open source, provides three signals (logs, metrics, and traces) under a single pane, and is OpenTelemetry-native. And it also costs lesser than other popular observability tools. We did a cost analysis of SigNoz and compared it with other vendors like DataDog, New Relic, and Grafana.

Poorly designed infrastructure leaves your applications and networks vulnerable to cyberattacks and data breaches. This puts the company at significant risk: the average cost of a data breach reached a record high $4.35 million in 2022. This is where companies bring in platform engineers. A platform engineer is a professional who ensures that security protocols and best practices are in place to protect against potential security threats.

A sysadmin in the high performance computing world since 2008, Wilfried Roset is now working with the open source databases and observability environment at OVHcloud. He leads a team focused on building industrialized, resilient, and efficient solutions. For nearly two decades, OVHcloud has been a leader in cloud hosting and has been Europe’s largest provider since 2011. To serve our 1.4 million customers globally, we need a reliable and scalable observability platform.

Memory databases are known for their ability to store and manage large volumes of data in memory. Their memory-based architecture allows users to quickly retrieve critical information and benefit from performant data reading. Thanks to these characteristics, businesses use memory databases for various applications that require prompt data access playing a vital role within their digital resources.

Here at InfluxData, we recently announced InfluxDB 3.0, which expands the number of use cases that are feasible with InfluxDB. One of the primary benefits of the new storage engine that powers InfluxDB 3.0 is its ability to store traces, metrics, events, and logs in a single database. Each of these types of time series data has unique workloads, which leaves some unanswered questions. For example: Luckily this is where our work within OpenTelemetry comes into play.

This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. They require different approaches for storage and querying, making it a challenge to use a single solution. But InfluxDB is working to consolidate them into one. Time series data has unique characteristics that distinguish it from other types of data. But even within the scope of time series data, there are different types of data that require different workloads.

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The release of ChatGPT in November of 2022 elicited excitement from all corners of the internet. It could write code, diagnose patients, ace exams, write books and more — all in a matter of seconds. Yet, many people were left underwhelmed by the results. Inputting “write a blog post about…” resulted in bland and formulaic articles no one wanted to read. The AI doomers could breathe a sigh of relief as it became apparent AI wasn’t coming for tech jobs any time soon.

Catchpoint and ITOps Times have teamed up to break down 6 critical topics you need to understand to ensure Internet Resilience for your business in a bi-weekly microwebinar series, each lasting less than 10 minutes. Explore each of the topics in the series: In this third installment, we’ll talk about why Internet Resilience is critical for retail and eCommerce companies. Now, let’s get into the episode!