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Elasticsearch Disk and Data Storage Optimizations with Benchmarks

Out of the four basic computing resources (storage, memory, compute, network), storage tends to be positioned as the foremost one to focus on for any architect optimizing an Elasticsearch cluster. Let’s take a closer look at a couple of interesting aspects in relation to the Elasticsearch storage optimization and let’s do some hands-on tests along the way to get actionable insights. The storage topic consists of two general perspectives.

Our Checklist on How To Quickly Become A Remote Company

Many business leaders are allowing workers to telecommute, to attract more Millennials and remain competitive in the labor market. And now, with coronavirus (COVID-19), becoming a remote organization is more than just a bottom-line decision. It can affect the health and welfare of a company’s employees. To address this new threat, organizations are now setting up remote workplaces, in days, if not hours.

How Do I Ask For A Status Page?

Has this scenario happened to you? You found a service. A SaaS product or hosted service: it could be anything. Maybe it’s a continuous integration service or perhaps it’s a service for capturing comments on your web site. Let’s call it Useful Service. You sign up, and you’re happy with it. Now you depend on it and your fortunes are tied to it. But day in and day out, it’s there for you, working reliably. Then all of the sudden: it’s not.

Virtual Meetup: Monitoring the COVID-19 Outbreak Using Elastic Stack

Melvyn Peignon, Elastic Education Architect, will be sharing information about Kibana, with an example of how to build your own personalized dashboard to track COVID-19 outbreak around the globe, using a public data source, of course. In this presentation, you are going to learn how easy it is to index any kind of data in Elasticsearch, transform it using ingest node and analyze it using Kibana visualizations, dashboards and maps.

How to Ensure Great IT Performance for Remote Employees

Things are about to get real in so many ways. Companies are telling employees to work from home, which sounds great in theory — less contact, less chance for the COVID-19 virus to spread. But what about the strain it’s going to place on your IT infrastructure? Your employees will be connecting over a remote virtual infrastructure (Citrix, VMware, AWS, etc) and accessing a variety of in-house web applications (Java, .NET etc.) and SaaS services (Office 365).

Dashbird vs. AWS CloudWatch

At this moment, billions of people are rushing to the internet for work, entertainment, shopping - everything, really. It’s great that we developed this virtual world and can keep the lights on, despite what’s happening outside. On the other hand, cloud systems and developers are under pressure to meet an unparalleled demand. At Dashbird, we have always thought developers deserve the most efficient tools to discover and resolve issues in order to keep cloud apps running smoothly.