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At UptimeRobot, we’re always evolving to serve you better—while understanding that change can sometimes be inconvenient. We’re excited to announce a major infrastructure upgrade designed to boost performance, scalability, and reliability. This upgrade will help us deliver faster, more reliable service as we grow, and we hope you’ll see the benefits soon.

With the precision of search and the intelligence of AI, Cisco uses Elastic on Google Cloud to create richer search experiences, so support engineers can quickly find the answers they need. Scaling from this success, Cisco's Search team added AI models, semantic search, and vector search to more than 50 internal- and external-facing apps, helping them innovate more quickly and increase overall operational efficiency.

Real user monitoring (RUM) is a powerful tool for optimizing the end-user experiences of web applications. With insights into performance, load times, user behavior, and more, RUM enables businesses to identify and address issues that negatively impact user satisfaction. Consider a scenario where a growing e-commerce company experiences periodic slowdowns during peak hours, adversely affecting user experiences and sales.

Enterprises need strong observability to ensure system reliability, proactively detect and resolve issues, optimize performance, enhance security, and maintain seamless business operations across complex distributed environments.

Digital experience monitoring (DEM) is the evolution of application performance monitoring (APM) and end user experience monitoring (EUEM) into a comprehensive tool that analyzes the efficacy of an enterprise’s applications and services. Essentially, DEM combines these functions and goes beyond both — all to ensure consistency across the customer experience.

As IT costs continue to balloon, many organizations are caught between the desire to scale and the pressure to cut costs. It’s an incredibly delicate balancing act leaders struggle to maintain: while 66% of companies in one study said they plan to increase their IT budgets, 84% were worried about a recession, while 63% struggled to secure IT talent. By spending on infrastructure, organizations are forced to spend less on innovation. But what if there is a way to have both?

StatusGator is the world’s best status page aggregator: We aggregate the status of thousands of cloud services and hosted applications from their official status pages. But everyone knows official status pages are often behind and in those critical moments before the status page is updated, you might be thinking “Is it just me? Or is it really down?” StatusGator’s Early Warning Signals solves that by alerting you before providers even acknowledge the incident.

.NET 9 is releasing in mid-November 2024. Like every.NET version, this introduces several important features and enhancements aligning developers with an ever-changing development ecosystem. In this blog series, I will explore critical updates in different areas of.NET. For today's post, I'll present some improvements to Cryptography.