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Puppet 8: The Biggest Changes & How to Get It Now [with Video]

Puppet 8 is here, and it’s included in the latest release of Puppet Enterprise. It’s the biggest update to Puppet since Puppet 7’s first release in November 2020, and it carries a host of enhancements and improvements to make managing and scaling your infrastructure easier than ever. Read on for a list of the major changes included in Puppet 8, how they benefit you, and how to get going with Puppet 8 fast.

Top 3 Challenges of Securing Hybrid Cloud Environments

The hybrid approach to cloud implementation is by far the most widely adopted of the possible configurations available to modern businesses. In spite of this, it is not without its drawbacks. To understand the downsides, you first need to know what they are, so let's go over the main examples and focus on how to overcome them.

Hamster Kombat - A Revolution in Clicker Games

Hamster Kombat is a captivating play-to-earn (P2E) game that merges entertainment with earning potential in a unique, crypto-driven environment. Available on Telegram, this game takes players on a journey from being a small hamster to the grandmaster CEO of a tier-1 crypto exchange. The game is packed with features that keep players engaged and motivated to progress, thanks to a blend of daily rewards, strategic gameplay, and a rewarding referral system.

The Growth of Card Game Apps; User Demographics and Market Trends

Digital card games have become one of the most popular app categories in recent years. These apps provide interactive and strategic entertainment that users of all ages enjoy. While paper and physical card games still have many loyal fans, mobile and online versions offer some unique benefits that make the gaming format increasingly accessible.

How to Set Up an Ecommerce Store and Start Making Money

Starting an ecommerce business might seem simple and lucrative-just launch a website, and the profits will roll in. But the reality is far more complex. With over 26.5 million websites competing for attention, only a small fraction of these stores achieve real success. The ecommerce success rate is startlingly low-hovering around 20%-with about 80%-90% of new ventures failing almost immediately. Why such grim numbers?

Developer experience doesn't start where you think it does

Steve Jobs once said that giving customers what they wanted wasn’t his approach. “Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do,” he said instead. “People don't know what they want until you show it to them. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.” By now, this wisdom has become canonical for companies targeting end-users, but we tend to ignore it when we’re building products and processes for professional users.

Beyond RAG basics: Advanced strategies for AI applications

Our recent virtual event with Cohere dove deep into the world of retrieval augmented generation (RAG), focusing on the critical considerations for building RAG applications beyond the proof-of-concept stage. Our speakers, Lily Adler, principal solutions architect at Elastic, and Maxime Voisin, senior product manager at Cohere, shared valuable insights on the challenges, solutions, and best practices in this evolving field of natural language processing (NLP).

The Cyber Resilience Act: What it means for open source

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is nearly upon us. This wide-reaching piece of legislation will introduce new requirements, checks and balances on developers, retailers and device manufacturers; many of the looming demands haven’t gone down well in the open source community.

Product Update: Helm Charts for InfluxDB Clustered

InfluxDB Clustered is an on-prem offering of InfluxDB 3.0, allowing you to deploy the newest version of InfluxDB on your own hardware and manage it with your team. With InfluxDB Clustered, you get high availability and performance out of the box and the ability to fine-tune InfluxDB to fit the performance requirements of your specific use case. InfluxDB Clustered is deployed and managed using Kubernetes.