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Elevating Banking Excellence: Anodot's Real-Time Monitoring Revolution

In a recent article published by Economic Times on Dec 29, 2023, titled “Banks Told to Explore Dashboard with Real-Time Info on Services,” the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has urged banks to embrace real-time transparency through the creation of an online dashboard. Anodot, a leader in business monitoring, is at the forefront of transforming the banking sector with its advanced real-time business monitoring dashboard designed for internal usage within banks. What does this mean?

Paving the Road for Proactive Reliability

At Expedia Group, Kaushik Patel and Nikos Katirtzis have thousands of engineers and micro-services. Heterogeneity in terms of infrastructure and technologies used over the years created inefficiencies and posed the need for a set of automated best practices for our engineering teams. Over the past 2 years, using a data-driven approach, we’ve worked on creating a set of platforms that helps teams to adopt good reliability practices, including chaos engineering, release safety, or automatic failover between cloud regions. In this talk Kaushik and Nikos will cover the platforms they’ve built, including how they used data to drive their investment decisions.

Teams Call Quality Dashboard: The First Step In Teams Insight

Do you have much experience using the Call Quality Dashboard (CQD)? Does your team go on about it being a ‘good starting point’? Do you even know what the CQD does? Fear not. If you answered ‘no’ to any of those questions, we’re going to fill you in with all the details that matter and give you some additional direction on how to get the most out of them. The bottom line is they’re a good starting point, but a long way from being a proactive performance solution.

Escaping the Cost/Visibility Tradeoff in Observability Platforms

For developers, understanding the performance of shipped code is crucial. Through the last decade, a tablestake function in software monitoring and observability solutions has been to save and track app metrics. Engineers love tools that get out of your way and just work, and the appeal of today’s best-in-class application performance monitoring (APM) suites lies in a seamless day zero experience with drop-in agent installs, button click integrations, and immediate metrics collection.

Home Assistant Tutorial: A Beginner's Guide to Automation

In this post, we’ll be taking a closer look at Home Assistant, an open source platform for connecting your smart devices at home. We’ll walk through every important section of Home Assistant: dashboards, integrations, add-ons, devices and entities, automation, scripts, and scenes. In addition, we’ll be walking through how to set up your Home Assistant and create automation using Home Assistant’s graphical user interface.

Simplify customer support with Datadog's integrations for Zendesk

Zendesk provides support teams with an integrated solution for processing all types of customer inquiries and feedback. But as organizations scale, support tickets multiply, making it increasingly difficult to parse all of your customers’ feedback and time-consuming to investigate issues. Customers often report issues without providing the detailed context needed for troubleshooting, creating unclear and indirect paths to remediation.

The Future of Higher Education: Observability As A Strategic Asset

Schools, universities and other organizations within higher education have been shifting to modernize their learning experiences. With the intake of new students each year, some of these being based remotely, these organizations are seeking to manage large-scale and highly distributed infrastructure.

Popular Kubernetes Distributions You Should Know About

In the realm of modern application deployment, orchestrating containers through Kubernetes is essential for achieving scalability and operational efficiency. This blog deals with diverse Kubernetes distribution platforms, each offering tailored solutions for organizations navigating the intricacies of containerized application management.