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The frontend of a web application is the part that users directly interact with. It’s the last mile of the digital service you deliver to your customers and it’s directly associated with customer satisfaction and business objectives. Knowing performance metrics such as CPU or memory is helpful, but at the end of the day, what you care most about is if the user experience is affected.

You may have heard the term “network observability” regarding solutions that offer a deep and contextual view into the network. You’ve likely heard other terms, such as ‘network visibility,’ “network visualization” and of course “network monitoring.” But, experts argue, what these terms each truly means is still open for debate.

As a distributed global organization with a hybrid workforce, UNUM, a Fortune 500 insurance company, faced unique technological challenges in managing its Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTRs). Research shows that approximately 3% of Microsoft Teams calls are poor or fail each day, with the vast majority caused by IT issues.

When you need to monitor internal-facing APIs or private URLs that are behind your firewall, you need a secure solution. This is where private locations come into play. Private locations allow you to create custom locations in mission-critical areas of your business. If your customer relationship management platform goes offline, for example, you could lose customers and revenue.

Edge computing and fog computing are technological advancements gaining traction in a hyper-connected world. Being close to the source, edge computing enables data collection and processing at the fastest possible speeds. Instead of sending all the data to a remote cloud location through the internet with latency, edge devices store and process most of it onsite and pass the heavy lifting to the central cloud to achieve the quickest turnaround.

This post was written by Talha Khalid, a full-stack developer and data scientist who loves to make the cold and hard topics exciting and easy to understand. No one has any doubt that microservices architecture has already proven to be efficient. However, implementing security, particularly in an immutable infrastructure context, has been quite the challenge.

With thousands of logs generated every minute from your infrastructure, applications, services, and devices, retaining this copious amount of data for active search and analysis can be cost-prohibitive. Because log volumes continue to grow rapidly as operations scale, it’s common for organizations to implement log management strategies and store only a limited number to minimize costs.