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How to design apps with Docker containers?

Do you want to streamline your app development process to make it efficient, scalable, and reliable? Building and deploying applications without the right tools quickly becomes complex and resource-intensive. Docker containers address these challenges by providing effective solutions. The 2023 Stack Overflow Developer Survey reveals that 42% of developers rely on Docker, demonstrating its pivotal role in modern workflows. Similarly, Datadog states that over 25% of organizations use Docker in production, which underscores its widespread adoption.

How to Identify GDPR Compliance Gaps to Protect Your Business

With the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018, businesses across Europe and beyond have faced the complex task of ensuring compliance. The regulation was designed to provide individuals greater control over their personal data, thereby imposing stringent obligations on organizations that handle such data. Failing to comply can lead to hefty fines, reputational damage, and loss of customer trust. That's why businesses must proactively identify and close compliance gaps to mitigate these risks effectively. Let's dive into it.

New option to reverse stack traces in Crash Reporting

This enhancement is part of Raygun’s 12 Days of Christmas 2024. Over the past few weeks, we’ve shared daily updates on bug fixes and feature improvements inspired by feedback from you, our customers. These are the small but impactful changes you’ve asked for, designed to make Raygun faster and easier to use. Merry Christmas and thanks for following along—we’re excited to keep enhancing the tools you rely on!

Top tips: Must-know holiday hacks for IT admins

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we explore ways in which IT admins can optimize the IT infrastructure during the holidays while leaving room for enjoyment. December is here, and the holiday spirit is in the air. While you prune your Christmas tree at the start of the holiday season, your IT infrastructure requires consistent pruning throughout the year by IT admins.

VictoriaMetrics December Virtual Meet Up: Celebrate 2024 With Us!

2024 is almost over, but VictoriaMetrics Observability is always on! Review our product roadmaps to date 01:01:28 VictoriaLogs roadmap update 01:32:52 Arseny Zinchenko - VictoriaMetrics in hOS: Saving costs and mental health. Demo: VictoriaLogs vs Loki for storing logs.

Reduce MTTD+MTTR and Improve User Experience with Observability - Customer Brown Bag - Dec 12, 2024

Please join us as Technical Account Engineer, Duncan McKendrick, teaches how Sumo Logic's observability platform empowers teams to minimize Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) while enhancing the overall user experience. Learn how to leverage real-time insights, streamline incident response, and ensure optimal application performance through actionable data.

2024: A banner year for Internet Resilience

This was an important year for our industry. On one side, digital transformation efforts continue to make almost every business process and almost every human process digital, which means dependent on the internet. Almost every application, every system is cloud-centric, service-oriented, and composed of multiple geographically dispersed services. The Internet is fragile, complex, and constantly changing.

How MSPs can reduce MTTR and cloud costs with AI-powered observability

The scene is familiar to any IT operations professional: the dreaded 3 AM call, multiple monitoring tools showing conflicting status indicators, and teams pointing fingers instead of solving problems. For managed service providers (MSPs) supporting hundreds or thousands of customers, this challenge multiplies exponentially. But at AWS re:Invent 2024, Synoptek’s team revealed how they’ve fundamentally transformed this reality for their 1,200+ customer base through AI-powered observability.

The Journey to Autonomic IT: How AI Advisors, not AI Assistants, Can Get You There

Today’s IT teams face unprecedented challenges as they manage increasingly complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments and vast amounts of data. The pressure to maintain uptime, optimize performance, and ensure security – all while balancing limited resources – has become a daunting task for even the most seasoned professionals. So how can these organizations stay ahead of the curve?

Datadog Database Monitoring: Improve Database and Application Performance

Datadog Database Monitoring unifies query, application, and database telemetry in one platform, enabling teams to easily identify bottlenecks, understand database load, optimize query performance, uncover costly queries, and correlate database and application telemetry.