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Gartner IT IOCS Highlights: How Accenture Powers Automation Through Observability and StackState's 4T Data Model

Accenture’s vision for value-led, business-aligned operations applies Machine Learning, Automation and Observability to help cloud-hosted and on-premise systems diagnose and heal themselves. The company’s ubiquitous myWizard® platform, used by 100,000+ practitioners at more than 3000 companies, applies StackState’s advanced 4T Observability data model to improve service to Accenture’s customers.

How to Perform Point-in-Time Recovery of a SQL Server Database

In a previous post in the backup and restore series, How to Restore Databases From Native SQL Server Backups, Tim mentioned some more advanced options when restoring a database backup, including performing point-in-time recovery of a SQL Server database (sometimes known as PITR). In this tutorial, I’ll build on the information in Tim’s post by showing you how to use backups to perform point-in-time recovery and a more advanced way to determine an exact point to restore to.

Why is my SaaS application so slow?

Many companies today rely on SaaS connections in order for the business to function. Some users simply can’t operate in their job when an application becomes unavailable. When hundreds of users are impacted, this can cost a company serious money. That’s why keeping a proverbial finger on the pulse of application performance is generally worth the effort. But, it isn’t easy. Many popular SaaS applications are delivered from hundreds of locations around the world.

Perfecting the Customer Onboarding Experience for MSPs

Onboarding is an in-depth process that sets the stage for relationships with Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and their customers. Perfecting the onboarding experience will give customers the confidence that choosing an MSP to manage their IT was, and is the best choice. A poor first impression can damage credibility, so it’s vital to have a solid plan in place.

The Future of Open Source: Is it Sustainable?

Open Source projects are at the heart of most software that we depend on everyday. Community-supported volunteers work behind the scenes to make open source better for everyone, but it can be a thankless—and penny-pinching—job. Is it sustainable? Join us in a live virtual event with GitHub Sponsors to find out. We’ll showcase leading maintainers in the community and discuss the future of open source sustainability.

Coralogix is Live in the Red Hat Marketplace!

Coralogix is excited to announce the launch of our Stateful Streaming Data Platform that is now available on the Red Hat Marketplace. Built for modern architectures and workflows, the Coralogix platform produces real-time insights and trend analysis for logs, metrics, and security with no reliance on storage or indexing. Making it a perfect match for the Red Hat Marketplace. Request a Demo.

How to Find, Fix, and Prevent Node.js Memory Leaks

When your application starts to grow, one of the essential factors to consider while scaling is memory management. Poor memory management leads to memory leaks, thus affecting application performance. When the performance degrades, it will directly affect the business. So, it is essential to look out for and fix memory leaks in time. This blog post will look at what memory leaks are and how to avoid them in Node.js applications. Feel free to navigate the post using these links.

Bytecode transformations: The Android Gradle Plugin

This is the first part of a blog post series about bytecode transformations on Android. In this part we’ll cover different approaches to bytecode manipulation in Java as well as how to make it work with Android and the Android Gradle plugin. In the next two parts we’ll dive into the actual bytecode, bytecode instructions and how we can modify the bytecode and inject our own instructions, using Room as an example.

How to Measure Network Latency | Obkio

Latency is one of the core network metrics that you should be measuring when monitoring your network performance. Latency refers to the round-trip measure of time it takes for data to reach its destination across a network. Consistent delays or odd spikes in time when measuring latency are signs of major performance issues in your network. The most accurate way to measure Latency is by using a Network Monitoring Software, like Obkio.