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Platform engineering tools are the apps and services in an internal developer platform (IDP), like configuration management, provisioning, testing, automation, CI/CD, and more. Your actual IDP should comprise tools your team actually needs: Your choice of platform engineering tools matters because it defines what your dev team can do on their own.

The term index is quite overloaded in the tech world. If you asked most developers what an index is, they might tell you it commonly refers to a data structure in a relational database (RDBMS) that is associated with a table, which improves the speed of data retrieval operations. But what is an Elasticsearch® index?

During our March Cribl User Group livestream, Cribl’s own Eugene Katz covered some of the updates we made to our documentation on Architectural Considerations for deploying Cribl Stream. Topics included our guidelines for determining the ideal number of worker nodes, accounting for throughput variability, and preparing for system failure. The full video has more information on these and other things to consider when determining the right balance between cost and risk for your organization.

The customer success department at Honeycomb features a number of different roles dedicated to helping our customers succeed in every step of their observability journey. The work we do ranges from support engineers who provide timely assistance to customers, to customer architects who dive deep into the technical stuff, to product training who educate folks on features old and new.

Singapore’s location at the crossroads of important trade lines and the gateway to Asia has long given it strategic advantage as a hub for global industry, originally as a nexus for physical trade routes and now for digital connectivity, with more than 25 subsea cables landing on the island connecting Singapore to every continent.

The need to optimize cloud costs is a fact of life for SaaS companies — it’s required to stay competitive. But to optimize effectively, you’ll first need to find a way to accurately allocate all costs to the resources, teams, products, features, and customers that generated them. However, not all cloud cost allocation methods are created equal.

Most applications have large and complex databases at the back end, making it hard for developers to adequately test their work before it goes out. Having a fast, repeatable process to deliver data on demand is an essential part of an effective software development lifecycle, ultimately leading to improved customer satisfaction.

I’m proud to announce that ServiceNow is the recipient of the 2023 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for Modern Work - Apps & Solutions for Microsoft Teams. We're also the 2023 Microsoft Asia Pacific Region Independent Solutions Vendor Partner of the Year. At ServiceNow, our customers are at the core of everything we do. We believe these awards validate that we’re helping customers provide better experiences while simultaneously operating more efficiently.

As companies embrace containers, microservices, and complex architectural components, systems have grown more and more distributed and unpredictable, increasing the unknown unknowns. How can organizations remain efficient and effective in this type of intricate environment? With observability-driven development.

A Request For Proposal or RFP is one of the most important documents you will have to write if you're looking to make a significant purchase. It helps organizations set out their requirements and engage with potential suppliers in a transparent, structured, and fair way. If you’re completely new to the topic, or you just want to boost your knowledge before starting the procurement process, you have come to the right place.