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What I learned running a SaaS for a second year

Two years ago, OnlineOrNot started as a little toy app I built in an afternoon to see what it's like using the Next.js framework, to see if a URL is down from around the world. I gave myself a week to turn that toy into a SaaS people could pay for. It looked like this when it went live: It wasn't ready for real users, but that didn't matter. I had something out there, that people could sign-up for, tell me what they were expecting, and how OnlineOrNot fell short of their expectations.

Introducing the Cribl Stream Reference Architecture

Join Ed Bailey and Eugene Katz as they unveil the first Cribl Stream Reference Architecture, designed to help observability admins achieve faster and more valuable stream deployment. In this live stream discussion, Ed and Eugene will 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 by first establishing end-state goals. They will also share different use cases and help viewers identify which parts of the reference architecture are applicable to their specific situation.

From 200 to 503: Understanding the Most Common HTTP Status Codes

When browsing the web, you may have come across error messages such as "404 Page Not Found" or "500 Internal Server Error." These error messages are HTTP statuses, which are an essential part of the internet's communication protocol. In this article, we'll cover the most common HTTP statuses and what they mean.

Get better IT stack visibility with a monitoring maturity model

In order to better manage complex IT environments and comply with burgeoning regulations, financial services organizations must learn how to proactively manage disruptive internal and external issues and develop policies to prevent them happening again. The reason? The pace of change is rapidly increasing while the size of business-necessary components is shrinking.

Logic App Best practices, Tips, and Tricks: #21 Moving or organizing shapes inside Visual Studio Logic App designer

Today I’m going to speak about another important Best practice, Tips and Tricks that you need to consider while designing your business processes (Logic Apps): Moving or Organizing shapes inside Visual Studio Logic App designer.

Business Resilience: How To Build Resilience Strategically, Tactically & Operationally

The ability to continue business operations for the foreseeable future is a key metric from a financial standpoint. But from a risk management perspective, all dimensions of an organization’s strategic and operational framework must be analyzed in order to… The last part relates to business resilience — and it’s what we’re going to explore here. (This article was written by Joseph Nduhiu. See more of Joseph’s contributions to Splunk Learn.)

AI & Application Performance Monitoring Opportunities & Challenges

In today’s fast-paced world, app performance equals brand reputation. Customers expect apps that are fast, responsive and available 24/7. That’s where Application Performance Monitoring (APM) comes in. The technology enables businesses to ensure the best possible user experience by monitoring and managing the performance of their applications. But as applications become increasingly complex, identifying and resolving performance issues in real-time becomes increasingly difficult.

Iterating Our Way Toward a Service Map

For a long time at Honeycomb, we envisioned using the tracing data you send us to generate a service map. If you’re unfamiliar, a service map is a graph-like visualization of your system architecture that shows all of its components and dependencies. We didn’t want it to be a static service map, though—the kind you’d view once before going “huh, neat”—and then never looking at it again.