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Is your company experiencing growing pains? It happens. Tech leaders in fast-scaling companies encounter some very specific challenges. Read more to find out.

This article is based on conversations with Lætitia Avrot, Field CTO at EDB and David Tuite Founder of Roadie from our webinar on the Who What Where and Why of Commercial Open Source that you can watch here.

After a period of beta testing, we're happy to announce the launch of our latest AppSignal for Node.js package. This package features six new integrations and uses the OpenTelemetry framework for reliable telemetry data collection. OpenTelemetry is an open standard that facilitates the instrumentation of standardized telemetry data collection. AppSignal is committed to using OpenTelemetry in new integrations, and our Node.js integration is the first to use the standard.

Qovery has been named a High Performer in the Fall 2022 G2 Reports for the third consecutive time. Today, we’re excited to share that Qovery maintains its High Performer status in its category. We are also grateful for our users’ continued support, which has resulted in us receiving 4.8/5 stars and winning three G2 awards in a row.

It’s no secret that there is a lot of money involved in cybercrime. With McAfee estimating the annual global cost of cybercrime at just under $1 trillion, the dark side of tech is big business. Clearly, those losses have an impact on the global economy. It’s also become a pressing question to see if macroeconomic/geopolitical trends impact cybercrime.

AI/ML is reinventing the reality of many industries, including retail. From brick-and-mortar stores to online marketplaces, retail companies are all increasing their investments in artificial intelligence, in order to gain a competitive advantage, better understand their customers and solve some of their long-lasting problems.

The Rancher Team are excited to announce the general availability of Rancher v2.7. Rancher v2.7 is a monumental milestone in the lifecycle of Rancher and introduces the ability to be a truly interoperable, extensible platform through the concept of extensions. The extensions now make it possible for users to build extensions on top of Rancher with complete autonomy.

Earlier, before the advent of cloud computing, businesses used to have their data centers. These data centers were expensive to set up and maintain. They required a lot of expertise to manage. As a result, only large enterprises could afford them. However, with cloud computing, even small and medium businesses can now take advantage of this emerging and forward-thinking technology. Data shows that businesses that use cloud technologies tend to grow faster, be more profitable, and generate more jobs.

A look at what Parquet is, how it works and some of the companies using its optimization techniques as a critical component in their architecture. As the amount of data being generated and stored for analysis grows at an increasing rate, developers are looking to optimize performance and reduce costs at every angle possible. At the petabyte scale, even marginal gains and optimizations can save companies millions of dollars in hardware costs when it comes to storing and processing their data.

Old network salts likely know all about network flows and the value of network flow monitoring. As former News Editor for Network World and Editor in Chief of Network Computing, network flows are part of my old stomping grounds. In fact, I remember when Cisco invented NetFlow in the late 1990’s to collect traffic data from its routers and switches so it could be analyzed by network pros.