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Introduction to Apache Arrow

A look at what Apache Arrow is, how it works, and some of the companies using it as a critical component in their architecture. Over the past few decades, leveraging big datasets required businesses to perform increasingly complex analysis. Advancements in query performance, analytics, and data storage are largely a result of greater access to memory. Demand, manufacturing process improvements, and technological advances all contributed to cheaper memory.

Latest updates about backup components of VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics is proud to announce that we consider vmbackup and vmbackupmanager to be feature-complete solutions as of release 1.85.3. These backup components are essential for ensuring the safety and integrity of your data, and we have made a number of improvements in recent releases to make them even more reliable and user-friendly.

How can observability cultivate collaboration among engineering teams?

If an application breaks, much time is spent shifting blame instead of solving the problem at hand. With synthetic monitoring, teams can come together to identify problems before they occur and hence assign them to the correct people to get them solved.

Why do enterprises need to ensure now more than ever that their mobile applications are being tested

Consumers now have an incredible choice when it comes to applications, and their expectations of the experience is very high. It is, therefore, imperative that enterprises assure their applications are working 24/7, which can only be ensured via synthetic monitoring.

Patch Management KPI Metrics

Around 57% of data breaches are attributed to poor patch management. This stat clearly attributes to the need for patch management to keep the organization safe by mitigating security vulnerabilities. Without the right patch management software, it becomes difficult for organizations to identify critical updates. Only implementing a patch management process is not enough for any organization to win the game.

Cloud Monitoring: Create custom notification channels

Are you looking to learn how to send alerts from Cloud Monitoring to your custom notification service? In this video, we share the different ways of processing notifications from Cloud Monitoring. Watch this video to learn the steps involved in sending the notifications from Cloud Monitoring using Cloud Run to your custom notification service, including a description of the sample notification service and of the Cloud Run code.

How to Deploy a Cribl Stream Leader, Cribl Stream Worker, and Redis Containers via Docker

In this video, we’ll walk through how to deploy a Cribl Stream leader, Stream worker, and Redis containers via Docker. Then we’ll show how we can bulk load data into Redis, then use it to enrich data in Stream.

Monitor Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere with Datadog

With vSphere and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG), VMware enables enterprise organizations to combine the economic advantages of virtual machines (VMs) with the agility, portability, and scalability provided by Kubernetes. vSphere is VMware’s platform for the provisioning and management of VMs.