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2023 Trends in AIOps, Observability, and ITOps

Hall of Fame professional wrestler Paul "Mr. Wonderful" Orndorff said of his ascent to become one of the WWE's biggest stars of the 1980s that, "I knew where I wanted to go. I had a plan. I don't care what you do in life, you better have a plan." And for ITOps teams making new plan-or adjusting the sails on their existing ones-it's good to have insights that inform those plans.

Using OOP concepts to write high-performance Java code (2023)

Java is a class-based object-oriented programming (OOP) language built around the concept of objects. OOP concepts are intended to improve code readability and reusability by defining how to structure your Java program efficiently. There are seven core principles of object-oriented programming, as follows.

Getting More Web Traffic? How to Prepare Your Site for Large Scale Traffic

It can be challenging to understand the specific factors that can cause traffic to surge on your website. Sometimes there are temporary spikes, usually related to sales or special events, and other times this increase in traffic can be permanent. Website owners should be ready to handle large volumes of visitors as any breakdown, no matter how short-lived, can cause you to lose potential business.

Profiling: Buzzword or Critical Observability Tool? | Snack of the Week

Profiling may seem like the latest buzzword in the monitoring and observability world, but profiling tools have actually been in use for decades. I’m going to quickly explain what profiling is and why modern profilers are getting so much attention lately.

Grafana documentation: A look at the new and improved design

We recently launched a new design for our technical documentation. The goal of the redesign was to make our technical documentation more accessible, modern, and scalable as we grow. In addition to a new look (hello, new typeface and layout!), our updated docs pages reveal the underlying work our team has done to evolve and enhance our technical documentation.

Digging Into the Recent Azure Outage

In the early hours of Wednesday, January 25, Microsoft’s public cloud suffered a major outage that disrupted their cloud-based services and popular applications such as Sharepoint, Teams, and Office 365. Microsoft has since blamed the outage on a flawed router command which took down a significant portion of the cloud’s connectivity beginning at 07:09 UTC.