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Container Orchestration: A Beginner's Guide

Container orchestration is the process of managing containers using automation. It allows organizations to automatically deploy, manage, scale and network containers and hosts, freeing engineers from having to complete these processes manually. As software development has evolved from monolithic applications, containers have become the choice for developing new applications and migrating old ones.

CapEx vs OpEx for Cloud, IT Spending, & More

Capital expenditures (CapEx) and operational expenditures (OpEx) are two ways organizations categorize their business expenses. Every organization has a variety of expenses, from office rent to IT infrastructure costs to wages for their employees. To simplify accounting, they organize these costs into different categories, two of the most common being CapEx and OpEx.

Unlocking Network Capacity Monitoring & Planning: From Overload to Overdrive

In the world of networking, where connectivity and data flow are at the heart of operations, a network hiccup can spell disaster. The digital transformation wave has engulfed businesses of all sizes, and as companies become increasingly reliant on their networks to serve customers, collaborate with teams, and manage critical processes, the demand for robust and efficient network performance has never been higher.

Debugging Modern Applications: Advanced Techniques

Today’s applications are designed to be always available and serve users 24/7. Performing live debugging on such applications is akin to doctors operating on a patient. Since the advent of the “as a service” model, software is like a living, breathing entity, akin to an anatomical system. Operating on such entities requires more dexterity on the developer’s part, to ensure that the software application lives on while being debugged and improved continuously.

Grafana Agent v0.37: Feature parity between Static and Flow mode, easy migration configs, and more

Grafana Agent v0.37 is here! This new release brings a lot of exciting new features and marks the pinnacle of a year-long effort to achieve feature parity between Grafana Agent Flow mode and Grafana Agent Static mode. We also extended our config converter to ease the migration from Static to Flow mode and we added the possibility to split your Flow configuration into multiple files. Please make note of some breaking changes in this release.

How to embed Grafana dashboards into web applications

Grafana dashboards are powerful and flexible tools for observing applications and infrastructure, so it’s no surprise we get a lot of questions from the community about how to embed them into their web applications. Over the past few releases, we’ve developed a lot of options for how to do this in Grafana, but there can be confusion about how they work, and when to use each approach.

Logic App Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks: #37 How to handle special characters inside Logic Apps actions?

Today, I will speak about another useful Best practice, Tips, and Tricks that you must consider while designing your business processes (Logic Apps): How to handle special chars inside Logic Apps actions.

Ingesting and analyzing Prometheus metrics with Elastic Observability

In the world of monitoring and observability, Prometheus has grown into the de-facto standard for monitoring in cloud-native environments because of its robust data collection mechanism, flexible querying capabilities, and integration with other tools for rich dashboarding and visualization.