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Five worthy reads: Ethical AI: Why is it the need of the hour?

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we have discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we highlight the urgent need for ethical AI due to increased adoption of AI enabled technologies by businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

User Experience platform at a fraction of the cost: germainAPM

germainAPM platform allows teams to quickly and cost-effectively lower churn rates and improved user experience. germainAPM monitors and improves User Experience, Process and Technology Performance, in real-time, 24x7. germainAPM is often used to fill-in the gaps of other major APM/BPM/DEM/automation platform since it is so flexible and customizable. Some of the greatest features that germainAPM offers: User Replay feature, Automatic Root-Cause Analysis of issues, Distributed Transaction Tracing, Business Process monitoring/insight, Alerting, Proactively Issue Detection, Automatic Issue Resolution, Tuning Recommendations.

Data Layout and Schema Design Best Practices for InfluxDB

Figuring out the best data layout for InfluxDB v2 is important in optimizing the resources used by InfluxDB, as well as improving ingestion rates and the performance of queries and tasks. You also want to consider developer and user experience (UX). This post will walk you through developing a schema for an IoT application example and answer the following questions.

5 reasons your network needs an advanced IP scanner

With networks continually scaling to meet business needs, advanced IP scanning has become a crucial task for network admins to ensure network availability and performance. Scanning IP addresses can be challenging in large networks, which often include wired and wireless devices with dynamic IPs, multiple DNS, DHCP configurations, and complex subnets.

Learn how monitoring VPNs enhances your remote workforce's productivity: The ITOM podcast [Episode 3]

The ITOM podcast returns with yet another episode aimed to alleviate all your remote work woes. In the last episode, we drilled into the nuances of VPN security, encryption, hashing algorithms, certification authorities, and much more. Now we’ll discuss the practical implications of VPNs on remote work. VPNs have become many organizations’ best bet to help maintain business continuity in this era of remote work.

JFrog & Splunk - Observability for your IT Value Stream

As software is the product in many of today's businesses, the need to manage the value stream from development to production is critical to ensure consistency of information, compliance and supply chain collaboration.In order to consistently deliver high velocity and quality of applications, engineering teams require visibility into how code is moving from dev to prod in a stable and efficient manner. Just as Observability is changing the way teams managing their applications in production, the concepts of observability apply to the entire software value stream.