Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Ever wondered how Elasticsearch actually works? In this quick breakdown, I’ll use a simple spreadsheet analogy to explain the basics from documents and indices to shards, CRUD operations, and mappings. You’ll see how Elasticsearch stores data as JSON documents, splits indices into shards for scalability, uses CRUD with ID hashing for fast lookups, and applies mappings to organize text, numbers, and labels.

Progress WhatsUp Gold Certificate Discovery and Monitoring is a seamless capability included out of the box. It’s a proactive safeguard designed to help you spot certificate issues before they escalate into business problems.

Welcome to the AI research bites. This series of short and informative talks showcases cutting-edge research work from ServiceNow AI Research team.

The evolution of ITIL and SSCM in the AI-driven world.

Reliability takes the whole team working together. Full transcript:  If you really want to get good at measuring your reliability, then you have to work together as a team. Once your software engineer organization has decided, "We're gonna test these applications to make sure that they have redundancy, availability, resilience." Just stick to that framework that you come up with as a team.

This video focuses on how to create a self-service user interface (UI) for querying logs using Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and the Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) module. Perfect for developers and business users aiming to gain actionable operational insights from log data with simple visualizations and monitoring.

Learn how to bring end-to-end visibility into your business processes with Logic Apps. In this video, Michael Stephenson walks through Business Process Tracking (BPT) - what it is, why it matters, and how to apply it in real-world workflows.

Supercharge your.NET applications with dotConnect for PostgreSQL — a fast, feature-rich ADO.NET data provider tailored for modern PostgreSQL development. In this video, explore how dotConnect for PostgreSQL simplifies data connectivity, enhances developer workflows, and empowers scalable, high-performance applications within the.NET ecosystem. What you’ll see: From SaaS platforms to data-driven enterprise systems, dotConnect for PostgreSQL offers the speed, reliability, and flexibility your applications need.

Wednesday August 20 2025 Guest Focus: Senior engineer and KIP-405 Tiered Storage architect Satish from Uber, will be joining our host Hugh Evans. Satish was a contributor to KIP 405 which brought tiered storage to Kafka. What we’ll cover: As always we’ll offer a free coffee voucher to all attendees. Get Kafka-Nated!

What happens when a social media obsession turns into one of the most unconventional and impactful careers in tech? In this episode of Uplink, Alexis Bertholf, Global Technical Evangelist at Megaport, explores how she’s making network engineering cool again, and why connectivity is the oxygen that cloud and AI can’t live without.