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InfluxDB, Flight SQL, Pandas, and Jupyter Notebooks Tutorial

InfluxDB Cloud, powered by IOx, is a versatile time series database built on top of the Apache ecosystem. You can query InfluxDB Cloud with the Apache Arrow Flight SQL interface, which provides SQL support for working with time series data. In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of querying InfluxDB Cloud with Flight SQL, using Pandas and Jupyter Notebooks to explore and analyze the resulting data, and creating interactive plots and visualizations.

Financial Services Predictions - the highlights for 2023: Two trends, two actions and a honest take on financial services hype.

Thanks to regulation, legislation and the pandemic, the term ‘resilience’ has burst into the consciousness throughout the financial services industry. But why is it so important? To answer this, we are going to delve deeper into the world of Operational Resilience by exploring how it has the potential to deliver a lot more than merely regulatory compliance.

World Backup Day: Tips for a successful small business backup strategy

In today’s digital economy, businesses have access to more data than ever. As newer technologies are introduced every single day, the risk of data being exposed to hackers is also increasing. Regardless of size or domain, almost every organization finds it challenging to meet its data security and management needs.

Going off-grid: Give your computer the power-nap it deserves

Climate change has been a global concern, and organizations are working harder everyday to reduce their carbon footprint. We can contribute to this global cause by making endpoint power management a fun and engaging activity. So grab your favorite snack, settle in, and let’s delve into this crucial aspect of sustainability. Picture this: You’re an IT admin handling over 1,000 computers. Lets say 30-50 watts of power is consumed per computer screen.

ScienceLogic Product Tour: Understanding-and Solving-Root Causes of Risk

As enterprises grow bigger, more sophisticated, and more complex, it can be difficult to detect signs that network reliability is at risk. That’s why the ScienceLogic SL1 AIOps platform uses advanced, real-time analytics to track behavioral correlation and understand issues affecting infrastructure performance—and solve them quickly.

Datadog on Data Engineering Pipelines: Apache Spark at Scale

Datadog is an observability and security platform that ingests and processes tens of trillions of data points per day, coming from more than 22,000 customers. Processing that amount of data in a reasonable time stretches the limits of well known data engines like Apache Spark. In addition to scale, Datadog infrastructure is multi-cloud on Kubernetes and the data engineering platform is used by different engineering teams, so having a good set of abstractions to make running Spark jobs easier is critical.

What are the benefits of log management?

Log management turns the huge volume of raw information created as logs into something usable for an organization's DevOps, IT and security teams. When log management is done correctly, its benefits include: Let’s take a closer look at some of the benefits of log management and how they apply to specific areas.