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The Five Main Components of a Fully Developed EHR System

The adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems has seen tremendous growth across geographies, especially in the US. According to American Hospital Association data shared by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, over 93% of American hospitals are enabled by some form of EHR in their organization. Implementing an EHR system in your clinic or hospital is a big decision.

Aggregations and Chains: Performance Measurement in Cribl Stream Pipelines

In this post, we’ll discuss two functions in the Cribl Stream arsenal: The Aggregations function, which allows you to perform stats and metrics collection in flight, and the Chain function allows you to call one Pipeline from within another. The event flow will continue when the Chained Pipeline returns. To demonstrate their use, we’ll answer this question: How long did it take for Cribl to process events using your pipeline?

Enterprise vs. SMB IT: What's the Difference?

Enterprises have always had more money to spend on IT than small-and-medium businesses (SMBs). This has traditionally resulted in a disparity in the technology and services available to each. However, with the rise of cloud-based services and the increasing need for remote working, this gap is starting to close. While there are still some differences between enterprise IT management and SMB IT management, the two are becoming more similar.

Splunk Synthetic Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud - Product Demo

Splunk Synthetic Monitoring is now available in Splunk Observability Cloud allowing IT and engineering teams to proactively detect issues impacting web and API performance and end-user experience and troubleshoot and remediate issues in the web browser, the server, or a third-party dependency—all within a single UI. Watch this quick demo to learn more.

Using Splunk Observability Cloud to Monitor Splunk RUM

As a principal engineer on the Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) team who is responsible for measuring and monitoring our service-level agreements (SLAs) and service-level objectives (SLOs), I depend on observability to measure, visualize and troubleshoot our services. Our key SLA is to guarantee that our services are available and accessible 99.9% of the time.

Middleware 101

In computer science, systems are typically divided into two categories: software and hardware. However, there is an additional layer in between, referred to as middleware, which is a software pipeline—an operation, a process, or an application between the operating system and the end user. This article aims to define middleware and reflect on its necessity, as well as address controversies about when and where it applies.