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The What, Why, and How of Time Series Databases

This article was written by Thamatam Vijay Kumar. Scroll down for author bio and photo. Modern-day websites are filled with dashboards featuring enriched charts, line graphs, radar as well as multigraphs. The world is fascinated with such charts and graphs, which deliver much value to millennial web applications. There are many such chart libraries which provide interactive visualization and deliver data insights for users. The charts plot the lines using data points.

Proton Drive vs Google Drive: Cloud Storage Privacy or Convenience?

Big name or underdog? Privacy or convenience? Proton Drive or Google Drive? Google Drive has a long history and is the usual top dog when it comes to online cloud storage and collaboration. Proton Drive is new, and rather than try to go toe-to-toe with Google in size, it has instead chosen to take the high road and focus on privacy. Both services have plenty going for them, and both clouds have a few dark spots that could be improved.

The Cost of Not Modernizing Your Infrastructure Monitoring

Did you know that nearly 15% of IT budgets go towards maintaining legacy systems? Recent data suggests that these systems cost hundreds of millions annually to operate and maintain. For that reason, many companies continue to invest in moving their systems away from expensive on-premises to the cloud, where maintenance is more cost-effective and consistent thanks to modern monitoring capabilities.

What Are Spans in Distributed Tracing?

Distributed tracing is an essential process in the modern world of cloud-based applications. Tracing tracks and observes each service request an application makes across distributed systems. Developers may find distributed tracing most prevalent in microservice architectures where user requests pass through multiple services before providing the desired results.

7 Ways to Slam Dunk Your Next Network Assessment Using Auvik

So, you’re an MSP that’s recently won a new client. As part of the deal, you’ve promised a network assessment: a look at the overall network to determine if there are any glaring issues that will interfere with day-to-day operations. The topology is vast, spanning multiple sites and dozens of switches and firewalls. How do you act quickly? And what should you be looking for? Here are 7 network assessment tasks Auvik can help you easily complete.

FastAPI and Starlette Sentry Integrations Have Arrived

FastAPI is known for building REST APIs, middleware services, and simple integration for adding authentications and more. And it’s known for doing all of that…you guessed it, fast. It’s used by tech giants and scientists alike, and according to Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey 2022 more developers are using FastAPI than Ruby on Rails.

Top 8 CI/CD Best Practices for Building Successful Applications

Developers commonly integrate the code and these frequent modifications in a central repository as part of the software development method is known as continuous integration (CI). Improved software quality, faster quality audit and bug fixes, and quick validation and release cycles are all major goals of continuous integration. Continuous Delivery (CD), which builds on top of Continuous Integration(CI), includes automating both builds and the complete software release process.

Cloud Providers Health Report - August 2022

Check August 2022 health report on the top 10 most popular cloud providers. We analyze the health of the cloud providers based on the number of outages and problems during the month. Please analyze the information with a grain of salt as each provider has their own framework for reporting incidents, and in no way one provider having more outages, means that they are worse than other. Also we are comparing providers with very different sizes and market share.

Higher Education and the Persnickety Network: How Monitoring Comes to the Rescue

Colleges and universities face immense IT challenges. The end user base is regularly overturning with students coming and going. And residential students are just part of the problem. Increasingly, schools support extensive distance learning, which only gained ground thanks to COVID. Now that remote work and distance learning are the new mandates, there are even more difficult challenges for Higher Education IT to deal with.