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Over the course of two decades, Adform grew from a dream between friends huddled in a basement to a leading advertising tech platform powering more than 25,000 clients worldwide. Success brought external accolades, but it also created the need for internal innovation to support the company’s continued growth. In 2018, Adform was still operating in startup mode, which meant developers and teams cherry-picked the tools that worked best for them.

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and performance for query and ingest workloads. In this post, I will introduce another common technique, partitioning, that provides further advantages in performance and management for a sharding database.

In this article, we will analyze what are the metrics for monitoring Kafka performance and why it is important to constantly monitor them. We will also look at the process of monitoring metrics for Kafka using Hosted Graphite by MetricFire. To learn more about MetricFire, book a demo with the MetricFire team or sign up for the free trial.

Application development trends guide industries (tech and non-tech alike) toward a more cloud-native and distributed model with digital-first strategies. Many organizations are adopting new technologies and distributed workflows. Software development pipelines enable teams to collaborate efficiently and maintain productivity. However, organizations that were early to embrace modern application development strategies and tools, including containerization and multi-cloud environments.

In recent years, Software-Defined WAN Technology (SD-WAN) has changed the way networking professionals secure, manage, and optimize connectivity. As organizations continue to implement cloud applications, conventional backhaul traffic processes are now inefficient and can cause security concerns. SD-WAN is a virtual architecture that enables organizations to use different combinations of transport services that can connect users to applications.

The shift toward building modern applications as a collection of API-driven services has many benefits, but let’s be honest, simplified monitoring and troubleshooting is not one of them.

FreeBSD is a high-quality, stable, and secure operating system used in a wide variety of applications, and we want to show you how monitor FreeBSD systems painlessly and effectively.

Monitoring the health and status of nodes and servers is a critical part of effective infrastructure monitoring.

When transitioning from physical infrastructure to the cloud, it’s easy to think that your networks will instantly be faster, more reliable, and produce windfalls of cost savings overnight. Unfortunately, this wishful line of thinking fails to account for some of the complexities of cloud networking and is one of the biggest drivers of the cloud deployment mistakes we see.

Sysdig is pleased to announce that we’ve achieved the Amazon Linux 2022 Ready designation as part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program. Amazon Linux 2022 (AL2022) is the newest Linux operating system from AWS available to support your workloads running on Amazon EC2. The team at Sysdig validated AL2022 with Sysdig Secure and Sysdig Monitor to ensure full support for our container security and cloud-native monitoring capabilities with this latest OS.