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You can now easily monitor couchbase metrics and logs in Google Cloud. All of our logging and monitoring Google Cloud contributions are available through the Google Ops Agent GitHub repository. You can check it out here! The Google Ops Agent uses the built-in Prometheus exporter and receiver to monitor Couchbase sources running Couchbase 7.0. You can find documentation on the Prometheus exporter in the Couchbase documentation.

At Qoddi, we are strong advocates and sponsors of open-source projects, and with the recent decision from Heroku to stop offering free plans (used by a lot of open-source developers), we felt the importance of having an alternative ready to keep those projects running. Qoddi's infrastructure is compatible with most of Heroku's buildpacks and we wrote a guide to migrate a project from Heroku.

A pivotal inhibitor to mitigate these challenges is the Data Value Gap. Data automation and Data Fabric are emerging as key technologies to overcome these challenges. Learn from industry experts about these key technologies and how they create a lasting impact in enterprise IT.

As distributed environments become more complex, users often use distributed tracing tools to improve the visibility of issues evident within their traces. Throughout this post, we will examine some of the best open-source and other generally popular distributed tracing tools available today.

CircleCI is popular among Android developers for several reasons: it’s quick to get started, fast to execute your builds with high parallelism, (whether native, cross- or multi-platform), and even supports running Android emulators right from CircleCI with our Android machine images. This article will show you how to build and test Android applications for an example project on the CircleCI platform.

The impact of ransomware attacks on healthcare is as alarming as it is under-addressed. These attacks on the United States healthcare system alone are causing an annual burden of nearly $21 billion, including well over $100 million in ransoms. While the financial costs help illustrate the scale of the problem, the true cost is the tragic reality of impacted patient care – including higher patient mortality rates.

Modern organisations have become reliant on their IT capabilities, and at the heart of that infrastructure is a growing need to store data. Be it transactional databases, file shares, or burgeoning data lakes for business analytics. Traditionally, storage needs have been catered to by big iron hardware vendors, but over the last decade, more and more organisations have turned to open-source solutions such as Ceph running on commodity hardware.

In just a decade, smartphones have become ubiquitous. They facilitate communication via texting and calling, provide entertainment, enable administration, and offer utilities for their users in the form of applications. Users access these mobile applications through their app store, whether it is Apple’s App Store or the Google Play Store. Developers construct them with the smartphone’s operating system in mind. The two mainstream operating systems that are targeted are Android and iOS.