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Q&A: Meet the skills intelligence leaders powering the future of work

Remote work, the Great Resignation, political and social unrest. The past few years have flipped the talent landscape on its head, and employees are rethinking what they want from work. At the same time, companies know they need to recruit, develop, and retain a workforce that can respond to evolving business demands. As the relationship between an employee and employer evolves, talent strategy must get personal.

Evaluating xMatters Alternatives

The cost of IT downtimes is enormous as service breakdowns impact both the top-line and bottom-line growth. As the digital ecosystem continues to become complex and organizations continue to adopt additional tools and systems to scale their businesses, it’s imperative that they are equipped with incident response tools that can help drive accelerated incident response and mitigate expensive downtimes.

What's next in Kubernetes monitoring, Prometheus histograms, observability, and more: KubeCon EU 2022 in review

In May, a team from Grafana Labs descended on Valencia, Spain, to share their latest insights on the cloud native landscape at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2022. Along with diving into the future of Kubernetes monitoring with kubectl alpha events and multi-cloud deployments, Grafanistas presented an overview of the Prometheus ecosystem with an eye towards how sparse high-resolution histograms are going to change the game.

IT & The Flow State: 5 Ways IT Can Facilitate The Flow State at Work

Let’s start with a concept you’re probably familiar with: how it feels to get into a flow state at work. Maybe you were creating a new graphics package for a client deliverable. Maybe you were building a new website, or working on a coding sprint for the next product release. Maybe you were digging into some script automations for common technical issues. It doesn’t really matter what you were doing; what’s really important is how you felt while you were doing it.

What Are the Key Factors That Affect the Inventory Management of Hotels?

There is a lot of inventory in the hotel, which is why inventory management cannot be ignored. Inventory management is an essential part that must be done in the right way otherwise hotels might face lots of issues! Stock Management assumes a decisive part in the upgrade of productivity and intensity of business endeavors, additionally, it assists with setting aside cash, saving time, and incrementing stock accuracy.

Cribl and GitOps: Go From Development to Production

Git integration has always been at the foundation of Stream. In the fall 2021 release of Cribl Stream (both on-prem software and Cloud), our Enterprise users have a received set of APIs to separate the development and deployment of Stream. Stream GitOps connects with your favorite git based versioning platforms and leverages their PR, approve/reject, and CI/CD workflows to push production-ready changes from a development branch into a main branch or release.

The State of Availability Today: Availability Monitoring & Management

At first glance, availability monitoring may seem like one of the more mundane responsibilities of site reliability engineering (SRE) and IT operations teams. Determining whether an application is available may appear to be relatively straightforward, especially for teams that focus simply on monitoring certain transactions or services. This may have been true in the past.

In 2022, should we still be wrestling with slow computers?

The invention of computers gave us the promise of high speed, a new user experience, and extreme reliability. Early research by Robert B. Miller, who helped design some of the earliest IBM computers, discussed the transactions between humans and computers. Miller believed users require a response from a machine within two seconds to maintain their concentration and productivity.