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10 Best Tools for Monitoring Apache Cassandra in 2021

A large amount of data requires special tools. Apache Cassandra is one of those databases that can handle a large amount of data spread among many commodity servers, providing high availability and fault tolerance without a single point of failure. Developed under the umbrella of Apache Software Foundation, it ensures full visibility into the code base and being free of charge.

Best Strategies to Boost Your Remote Sales Team Performance

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of remote selling techniques as organizations adapt to the work-from-home environment, such as the “new school” digital buying practices and “digital-first” sales trends. The transition from face-to-face to virtual selling is ongoing but has already increased the adoption of remote sales models. Many sales reps are also working from home which is a new challenge.

Five worthy reads: Make data security your New Year's resolution

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. More than ever, now is the time for organizations to prioritize data security. This week we look at some data security trends that are shaping the industry today. Illustration by Balaji KR A recent study conducted by RiskBased Security has labeled 2020 the worst year for data security with a shocking 36 billion records compromised, twice the number from 2019.

Why we ditched Lumen PHP

Lumen is a stripped down version of the powerful and now very popular Laravel PHP framework, focused on performance and serving stateless requests. I doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of Laravel, but it also doesn’t need them when serving API requests. For example, sessions, cookies and views are not a part of Lumen. It’s not intended for serving websites so everything around that got ditched.

Get started with Prometheus with these three easy projects

You’ve probably heard about Prometheus, the leading open source project focused on metrics and alerting, and how it has changed the way the world does monitoring and observability. But if you’re brand-new to the technology, how can you dip your toes in and get started? I was in this position not long ago myself. I am a very hands-on type of learner, and usually when I want to explore new technologies, I start with “hello world” apps and small toy projects.

How to Enable a Hardware Virtualization

Hardware virtualization, also known as hardware assisted virtualization, is the creation of virtual versions of operating systems and computers. The technology was made by AMD and Intel for their server platforms. Its purpose was to improve the processor’s performance and meet virtualization challenges such as translating memory addresses and instructions. Many IT businesses have deployed servers that run only at a fraction of their total capacity.

Working with On-prem machines in SquaredUp for Azure

If you’ve been using SquaredUp for Azure, you’re familiar with its abilities to treat Azure native virtual machines . You can create a number of amazing and useful visualizations with them, such as displaying their health state, performance charts, costs, and so on. This is all excellent and super useful, but one question we frequently get asked is: how do I do these things with my on-prem servers that I’ve connected to Azure Monitor?

How the Nissan Source Code Leak Could Have Been Avoided

And you thought you were having a bad day…did you see what happened to the developers over at Nissan? The source code (Git repos) for Nissan’s mobile apps and internal tools was leaked to the Internet because the link was publicly accessible and the password easy to guess. 😬 Yikes.

Free Java Performance Monitoring and Troubleshooting Tools - Pros and Cons

Software developers are often only concerned about the functionality of their applications. When these applications are deployed in production, scalability and performance issues surface and application developers then have to worry about performance. Many a times, such situations warrant a complete restructuring of the application code, causing significant impact to new rollouts and current users.