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Redesigning Oh Dear: a case study

A few months ago, we totally redesigned our service. We didn't to this on our own, but got help from our friends at Digital With You. On their site, they published an in-depth case study on how they rewrote marketing copy, chose new colours and redesigned entire pages. A few months ago, we totally redesigned our service. We didn't to this on our own, but got help from our friends at Digital With You.

OpenTelemetry Browser Instrumentation Complete Tutorial

Browser instrumentation refers to collecting and analyzing data about a user's interactions with a web browser. This type of instrumentation involves using specialized tools and techniques to gather information about how a website is being used, such as page load times, network requests, and user interactions. The data collected through browser instrumentation can be used to improve website performance, identify and troubleshoot errors, and gain insights into user behavior.

Coralogix Deep Dive - Loggregation, Features and Limitations

Coralogix Loggregation enables users to turn thousands, or millions, of logs into a handful of templates, using our very own priorietary clustering algorithm. This enables users to quickly understand all of the different errors they are experiencing, and generate powerful, cross cutting insights in only a few clicks.

Splunk Data Insider: What is Edge Computing?

As cloud computing is pushed to its limits by the exponential growth of data, adopting edge will be the logical next step for enterprises and other organizations that can’t afford latency. For that and many other reasons, edge computing is here to stay. And it will be the key we need to not just unlock value from data, but also stay afloat during this epoch.

Platform Engineering Is the Future of Ops

Ops and DevOps roles as we know them are on their way to becoming extinct—the future is platform engineering. While DevOps engineers typically focus on the application layer, platform engineers focus on the underlying infrastructure layer. Without a solid and reliable platform, it can be challenging to deploy and maintain software applications effectively. This can result in downtime, poor performance, and security vulnerabilities. Platform engineering enables software applications and services to run effectively and efficiently and has a direct impact on the user experience and the success of the entire organization.

How Do We Cultivate the End User Community Within Cloud-Native Projects?

The open source community talks a lot about the problem of aligning incentives. If you’re not familiar with the discourse, most of this conversation so far has centered around the most classic model of open source: the solo unpaid developer who maintains a tiny but essential library that’s holding up half the internet. For example, Denis Pushkarev, the solo maintainer of popular JavaScript library core-js, announced that he can’t continue if not better compensated.

Introducing the Cribl Stream Reference Architecture

In this live stream discussion, Eugene Katz and I explain the importance of a quality reference architecture in successful software deployment and guide viewers on how to begin with the Cribl Stream Reference Architecture. They help users establish end-state goals, share different use cases, and help data administrators identify which parts of the reference architecture apply to their specific situation. It’s also available on our podcast feed if you want to listen on the go.

How to Get the Current Date and Time in SQL

SQL databases have several functions that reduce the complexity of working with date and time. Using these functions and a date and time type column, you can depend on SQL for the logic to write and read data with date and time. In this post, you’ll learn how to use the SQL date and time functions to get the current date and time.

From fish tanks to data banks: finding Grafana on a farm

I started a fish farm because I realized that the three marine biologists in the world weren’t giving up their jobs. It was 2014 and I had just finished a degree in marine ecology, so it seemed like a good idea in my head. Of course, actually building and operating a fish farm — technically, an aquaponics farm — turned out to me much harder than I ever expected.