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Retail Resilience: Lessons Learned from Cyber Week 2023

Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year marked a strong recovery for the retail and e-commerce sectors. Consumers were more eager to spend compared to 2022. Adobe Analytics highlights a significant jump in online sales, reaching $9.8 billion on Black Friday, up 7.5% from last year. Cyber Monday also saw an impressive rise, with sales hitting $12.4 billion, a 9.6% increase from 2022.

Common Cloud Cost Questions To Expect From Finance (And How To Answer Them)

As an engineer at a SaaS company, it’s your job to build the software products that make your company profitable. Problem-solving is what you love to do, and it’s a wonderful feeling when you can create something that makes a positive difference for your company.

Azure Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling: Which is Right for You?

Scalability in cloud computing refers to the system’s ability to handle changing workloads efficiently. It allows seamless resource adjustments based on demand, optimizing performance, cost, and resource utilization. Key benefits include improved flexibility, cost efficiency, high availability, and enhanced user experience. Scalability is essential for adapting to dynamic business requirements and ensuring the optimal functioning of cloud-based applications and services.

Webinar Recap: Building an AI Anomaly Detection Pipeline with InfluxDB

In this webinar hosted by InfluxDB and HiveMQ, we focus on how you can create value for your business using new tools in the AI and database ecosystem to quickly deploy AI models to perform tasks like anomaly detection. The webinar starts with a high-level overview of how MQTT and time series data can be valuable in an industrial IoT environment.

Monitor Ray applications and clusters with Datadog

Ray is an open source compute framework that simplifies the scaling of AI and Python workloads for on-premise and cloud clusters. Ray integrates with popular libraries, data stores, and tools within the machine learning (ML) ecosystem, including Scikit-learn, PyTorch, and TensorFlow. This gives developers the flexibility to scale complex AI applications without making changes to their existing workflows or AI stack.

How to get your first ten customers

It'll soon be the third anniversary of publicly launching OnlineOrNot on Twitter, and I often get asked what I did to get my first paying customers - so I felt like sharing. I assume when most folks ask this that they're looking for the one thing they can do to finally start getting paid customers. Let me be clear: it's never just one thing.

Subnetting - Ultimate Guide - Definition, How & Why?

In computer networking, understanding the concept of subnets and subnetting is crucial for managing and troubleshooting network issues. So, in this ultimate guide, we will explain everything you need to know about subnets, subnet masks, and subnet calculators. Additionally, we will introduce you to popular subnetting tools.

APAC Retrospective: Learnings from a Year of Tech Turbulence

Throughout 2023, one thing has become abundantly clear: regardless of an organization’s size or industry, incidents are inevitable. Recently across the APAC region, we’ve seen numerous regulatory bodies clamp down on large companies who are failing to provide acceptable service, with some handing out quite severe penalties. For many, the cost of an incident is no longer just lost revenue and customer trust, but financial penalties and business restrictions.

Why monitoring your application is important

Effective monitoring and observability tools are critical for modern enterprises. Daily operations, digital transformation, moving to a cloud-native architecture, and an ever-evolving tech stack all require ITOps, DevOps, and SRE teams to monitor increasingly complex systems. So what happens if your applications suddenly cease to function? Every moment of downtime translates to lost income, decreased customer satisfaction, and harm to your company’s reputation.