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Spark Tuning Helps You Optimize Your Resources (Part One)

As our recent survey showed, Apache Spark is poised to continue as big data’s most dominant large-scale big data processing platform. Thus it is imperative that Spark users learn and master Spark tuning if they want to get the most out of their Spark environments. But what is tuning in Spark? How is it done? Read on to know more about Spark tuning.

Auditing Capabilities in IT Monitoring Tools for Security and Compliance

It is critical that access to any configuration changes or management actions made to monitoring platforms are logged and traceably audited. In this article, I will help you learn how to discover the auditing capabilities in IT monitoring tools. You will learn how to audit and manage the monitoring platform itself and make sure that it is being used appropriately.

Monitoring Cloud Native Microservices

Today’s modern applications contain a broad set of microservices, with containers and serverless becoming the architectures of choice for many cloud applications. Both architectures facilitate highly scalable systems, and while which approach to take is routinely debated, containers and serverless technologies are being used in tandem more and more.

Monitoring Ubuntu 20.04 and Activating ML with Netdata

Sometimes a hat is just a hat, the truth is just the truth, and the clearly most popular example of a category is plain to see. In this case, Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution currently available. With the operating system’s superior popularity also comes an amazing amount of community support.

Deploying a MkDocs documentation site with GitHub Actions

In the previous post in this series about building documentation sites with MkDocs, I showed you how to host a site on GitHub Pages. We briefly touched upon GitHub Actions, the integrated build and deployment server available on GitHub. In this post, I'll continue the example and get a real deployment pipeline set up.

5 websites that have experienced website downtime in the first half of 2022

There’s a common myth that you may have heard – “only small companies’ websites go down”. This is a classic, especially since it couldn’t be more wrong. Thousands of websites go down, regardless of their size (or the size of their IT team for that), and even Google can, and has, suddenly experienced the dreaded monster that is “the outage”. So far, we are 6 months into 2022 and we’ve already seen a ton of websites go down.

Test Driving Machine Learning (ML) Anomaly Advisor

Netdata’s new Anomaly Advisor feature lets you quickly identify potentially anomalous metrics during a particular timeline of interest. This results in considerably speeding up your troubleshooting workflow and saving valuable time when faced with an outage or issue you are trying to root cause.

A Guide To Understanding The Different Types Of POS Systems

As a business owner, you know that a POS system is vital for your operations. But what you may not know is that there are different types of POS systems available on the market, each with its own unique set of features and benefits. Here, we'll break down the different types of POS systems so that you can choose the right one for your business.

Choose The Right Lighting For Your Business With These Tips

When it comes to running a business, there are many different factors that you need to take into account. One of the most important is the lighting in your space. The wrong type of lighting can make your employees and customers uncomfortable and can even be dangerous. This blog post will discuss some tips for choosing the right lighting for your business.