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What is an Asset Reservation System?

How often is it that your employees are looking for an asset only to find it in use elsewhere by someone else? Does it mean that you invest in an endless supply of assets for availability 24x7x365? Regardless of the size of your business, it is not feasible to ensure that your assets will always be available and free so you can lay your hands on them when the need arises. A better solution is to have an asset reservation system.

Observability Is a Data Analytics Problem

Observability is a hot topic in the IT world these days. It is oftentimes discussed through the lens of the “three pillars of observability”: Logs, Metrics and Traces. Indeed these telemetry signal types help us understand what happened, where it happened and why it happened in our system.

Upsun partners with MongoDB to help customers build modern applications faster

Today, we are excited to announce that Upsun now offers the latest version of MongoDB to our Enterprise and Elite customers. Clients can now enjoy improved visibility via one source of control, the ability to track multiple applications and users, and native, at-rest encryption that meets the latest security compliance standards. There are more details about the benefits of MongoDB below.

The Challenges of Multi-Cloud Management and How Observability Helps Solve Them

When I started my career in information technology, I worked for a large insurance company in Omaha, Nebraska. At the time, they exclusively used Lotus Notes, an IBM product. Even as Microsoft Outlook gained popularity and functionality, the cost of changing email clients was insurmountable, so the company continued using Lotus Notes for many years.

Aiven Terraform Provider - Getting Started

Clicking the button on the UI to create services doesn't scale. This video is an introduction to Aiven Terraform Provider which walks the viewer through setting up their first Terraform project, building necessary files, and going through the three stages of write, plan, and apply of Terraform. Aiven for Redis is being used as an example service.

Flux: The Key to Edge Data Replication with InfluxDB

EDR enables developers to use the full capabilities of InfluxDB at the edge. Developers also can use that same data in the cloud for different purposes. Flux is the data scripting and query language for the InfluxDB time series database platform, enabling useful features such as Edge Data Replication (EDR).