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Tale of the Tape: Data Historians vs Time Series Databases

It’s easy to pitch technology buying decisions as black or white, where one camp is the promised land and the other is a dystopian wasteland where companies and profits go to die. But that doesn’t match reality. Instead, organizations need to balance technical trade-offs with their needs. So, while it’s easy to stand atop the “rip and replace” mountain and shout the virtues of your new technology, that’s not something that most organizations are willing to do.

You Can Solve the Application Waste Problem

If you’re like most companies running large-scale data intensive workloads in the cloud, you’ve realized that you have significant quantities of waste in your environment. Smart organizations implement a host of FinOps activities to ameliorate or address this waste and the cost it incurs, things such as: … and the list goes on. These are infrastructure-level optimizations.

Understanding FinOps: Principles, Tools, and Measuring Success

FinOps is a cultural practice that brings financial accountability to the world of cloud computing. It’s a strategic approach that aids organizations in understanding their cloud costs and making informed business decisions. FinOps is a new way of managing costs in an IT environment that is increasingly shifting towards the variable cost model of cloud services. It combines the best of the technical and financial worlds, resulting in an effective model for managing cloud costs.

Continuous Data: The Complete Guide

Data is never just data. There are structured and unstructured data, qualitative and quantitative data. Among these varied types, continuous data stands out as a key player, especially in the quantitative realm. Continuous data, with its infinite possibilities and precision, captures the fluidity of the real world — from the microseconds of a website’s load time to the fluctuating bandwidth usage on a network.

An Introduction to Microservices Monitoring-Strategies, Tools, and Key Concepts

Users have higher expectations than ever when it comes to performance and reliability in the apps they use every day. A critical part of meeting these expectations is having a robust monitoring system in place. This article focuses on monitoring applications using a microservice architecture—it will go over key concepts, common challenges, and useful tools every engineer should know.

Apache Spark at Scale #datadog #shorts #security #observability

Datadog is an observability and security platform that ingests and processes tens of trillions of data points per day, coming from more than 22,000 customers. Processing that amount of data in a reasonable time stretches the limits of well known data engines like Apache Spark. In addition to scale, Datadog infrastructure is multi-cloud on Kubernetes and the data engineering platform is used by different engineering teams, so having a good set of abstractions to make running Spark jobs easier is critical.

Broadcaster TV2 Norway Boosts Developer Productivity with Aiven Platform

Watch how TV2 Norway, the largest commercial TV station in Norway, partnered with Aiven to enhance its development environment, lower risks, and gain control over costs. From Aiven for Apache Kafka® to Aiven for PostgreSQL®, see how TV2 streamlined its data infrastructure and empowered teams to focus on innovation. Join us on this journey of transformation in the media and entertainment industry! Discover how TV2 revolutionized its data environment with Aiven across clouds.

Mastering FinOps: The 7 Essential KPIs

Navigating the complexities of cloud financial management requires more than just tracking costs – it demands a strategic approach to measure and optimize cloud spend. We have put together our top 7 KPIs, ranging from allocatable cloud spend and average hourly costs to sophisticated forecasting, to effectively gauge your FinOps solution success. Each KPI offers unique insights, helping businesses manage and maximize their cloud investments.

Telegraf Configuration Migration

In v1.30.0, Telegraf will remove a few long-standing deprecated plugins. These plugins have been deprecated for a number of years, and plugins with better support and configuration options now replace them. This version of Telegraf also removes a number of configuration options. The full list of deprecated plugins includes: Starting from v1.30.0 Telegraf will show an error message and stop running if any of the plugins or options are present in your configuration.