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How I reduced an API call from >5 seconds to under 100ms

Given that 100% of the databases I have interacted with in my professional career have been SQL databases, my data-based mental model (please enjoy my pun) has always defaulted to a relational one. However, when spinning up a tiny side project in 2020 (a bot to provide interactivity to my Twitch stream), my data-storing requirements didn’t call for a relational model at the time, so I chose a NoSQL solution: MongoDB.

CNBC Says AI Will Replace Tech Support - Here's What They Got Wrong

Another day, another AI headline designed to spike your blood pressure. The Service Management industry is no stranger to dramatic proclamations about AI, and neither are you. But what’s the real story behind CNBC’s latest take, “The tech support desk at work is one of the first jobs AI is rapidly replacing?” Does the Palo Alto Networks company need media coverage? Does CNBC? CompTIA? All of them? Perhaps there is a hidden agenda behind the article being published.

Lightrun AI Autonomous Debugger

This video showcases how with Lightrun developer observability platform, developers can leverage the AI debugger within the platform plugin to swiftly identify critical code level issues through automated hypothesis and insertion of debugging actions at runtime (Lightrun dynamic logs, virtual breakpoints (Snapshots) and more. That helps reduce MTTR to mere minutes.

Thinking Bigger: Alex Stanton on Leadership, Innovation, and the Future of IT

In this episode of Now That’s IT: Stories of MSP Success, we sit down with Alex Stanton, a seasoned entrepreneur and industry innovator, to explore his remarkable journey from a teenage web developer to the founder of one of the largest MSPs in the Inland Northwest. Alex shares candid insights on scaling a business, navigating industry shifts, and the lessons learned while building a legacy in IT.

Grafana 11.4 | Support for OpenSearch PPL and SQL queries in the AWS CloudWatch Data Source Plugin

In this video, Ida, a software engineer from the AWS Data Sources squad, introduces an exciting feature in the CloudWatch data source plugin. With Opensearch SQL and Opensearch PPL now supported, you can leverage familiar query languages to explore and visualize your AWS CloudWatch data alongside the existing Logs Insights query language. Learn how to: Availability.

Product Release Notes November 2024

Happy AWS re:Invent week, everyone! While we have some larger announcements coming out this week (keep an eye out), we’d be remiss if we didn’t take the time to also look back at what our teams have been working on over the past few weeks. While we didn’t have a stated theme for November, you will see that two of our updates revolve around building templates or examples to help make achieving your goals easier with CloudZero.

AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud Comparison, and an S3 Storage Alternative

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud dominate the tech industry when it comes to cloud storage management and storing large-scale data for enterprises. Each service offers an abundance of features integrated into its service to suit businesses' unique needs ranging from: With all these features available, businesses interested in multi-cloud environments may be left wondering who wins the AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud battle.