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The High Cost of NOT Monitoring Every Business-Critical Application

Maybe you’ve been there. You’re a VP of engineering, or a product owner. There was a critical outage in one of your apps, and it took your team an entire week to track down and fix the issue. Customers and revenue were lost. Now you’re sitting in a review meeting with a consultant hired to figure out what happened and why.

How to Use Lambdas in Ruby

Lambdas are a powerful feature of the Ruby language. They allow you to wrap logic and data into a portable package. In this post, we’ll cover how and when to use lambdas. You'll also learn about the difference between lambdas and Procs, and the performance profile of lambda functions. The code examples have been tested with 2.6 and 2.7 and should work with most modern Rubys.

Grafana v7.0 is coming soon! Check out this sneak peek of the auto grid layout

Grafana v7.0 is coming next month! Here’s a sneak peek of one new feature: the auto grid layout. This new 7.0 feature is for the gauge and stat panels. Before, stat and gauge only supported horizontal or vertical stacking: The auto layout mode just selected vertical or horizontal stacking based on the panel dimensions (whatever was highest).

Managing VPN connections will help businesses face today's adversity as well as prepare for tomorrow's opportunity

The onslaught of the novel COVID-19 has caught businesses off guard, sending many of them into a tailspin. To survive this, most businesses are considering the idea of remote work, and some have already implemented work from home policies. Under these circumstances, a virtual private network (VPN) is an organization’s best bet for providing access to business-critical services remotely and to avert operational disasters.

So How Are Developers Feeling During the COVID Health Crisis? We Decided to Ask...

As a developer-focused company, InfluxData is always interested in how the community is doing. During the first two weeks of April, we conducted an online survey to find out how developers are handling life and work during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 324 self-identified software developers/engineers from across the world responded (46% from North America, 44% from Europe, 9% from South America, and 1% from Africa) to share their feelings during this unprecedented global event.

Top 11 Digital Tools to Boost Your Productivity

As far as productivity is concerned, you cannot afford to stay complacent. That is because, without productivity, it is not possible to thrive in this age of stiff competition. Today, you have numerous things to do, perform multitasking to stay ahead of the competition and if you haven’t done so yet, your business will take a backseat.

What Causes Website Downtime?

We’ve all experienced websites which are unreliable, and appear to be offline when we need to access them. Perhaps you have had a similar experience with your own website, and know how damaging downtime can be to your bottom line and to your brand image. Whether a website is ‘down’ for an extended period of time, or for a matter of minutes, it can be extremely frustrating for anyone who is trying to access the site in that period.