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Whether you’re an in-house IT professional or a managed service provider, ensuring the security and integrity of your networks is a crucial part of your bailiwick. In pursuit of greater security, Network Access Control (NAC) serves as a formidable guardian, ready to protect digital assets by regulating who gains entry to a network. Understanding the fundamental concepts and best practices of NAC is essential for any organization that values data security and network integrity.

We have just returned from the stunning city of Riga, where Canonical hosted the Ubuntu Summit 2023, and we are still buzzing with the energy from meeting so many of you. Preparing this event was a team effort. A small team of us have been meeting for months, brainstorming ideas, preparing huge to-do lists, and dividing responsibilities. It was difficult, but also hugely rewarding, and an opportunity many of us felt was a privilege.

The big data landscape is always changing to solve existing problems and continues to push the boundaries of performance and scale. Data lakehouses are a new architectural pattern that is rapidly gaining popularity by solving a variety of problems seen with previous solutions like data warehouses and data lakes. In this article, you will learn the following.

Research shows that most US companies go cloud-first when choosing where to deploy a new application. Indeed, cloud computing brought many new amazing solutions to people’s lives. But… Is it the only way? In 2024, are on-premises solutions a viable option for companies?

Software developers need efficient tools that facilitate collaborative development without taking you out of the zone. The CLI, or command line interface, is a developer favorite for its ease of use, quick access, and versatility. GitKraken’s CLI is specifically tailored for Git operations, enhancing the traditional command line experience with its user-friendly commands and integrations, making Git tasks simpler and more efficient.

Grafana Cloud constantly evolves to include new, cutting-edge features for end-to-end observability. In fact, just last month at ObservabilityCON 2023, we made a number of updates to our fully managed observability platform, including the general availability of Grafana Cloud Application Observability, Grafana SLO, and Adaptive Metrics.

In the following comparison table, we will provide you with an extensive guide designed to enable a detailed assessment of Cassandra and OpenSearch. This comparison aims to supply an in-depth exploration of multiple aspects of these two database systems, providing you with the insights required to make informed decisions tailored to your specific use case.

A comprehensive guide to instrument Golang applications using OpenTelemetry libraries for metrics and traces.

Over October and November I focused on adding new features to Status Pages and making it easier to iterate on new features, as well as fixing bugs across all of OnlineOrNot.

In Parsing Domains with URL Toolbox, we detailed how you can pass a fully qualified domain name or URL to URL Toolbox and receive a nicely parsed set of fields that includes the query string, top level domain, subdomains, and more. In this article, we are going to do some nerdy analytic arithmetic on those fields.