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What is Azure Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage?

As cloud storage becomes more popular, businesses are constantly looking for ways to improve their data storage solutions. One of the most popular cloud storage solutions is Azure Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage, or RA-GRS. In this article, we will provide a comprehensive guide to Azure Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage, including what it is, how it works, and its benefits.

Trust no one: Why businesses should adopt zero trust deployment

Businesses want to earn the trust of their customers. This explains why every brand dreams of ranking on the surveys that ask consumers for their most trusted brands. People, after all, trust their friends, family, and loved ones. If a brand can enjoy the same type of relationship with their customers, they will keep them for the long haul. Unfortunately, trust is easily broken. One of the quickest ways to do so as a digital business is to fall victim to a security breach.

Python Elasticsearch Tutorial - How to use Python Elasticsearch client

Elasticsearch is a popular search engine that can be used to swiftly and almost instantly store, explore, and analyze huge volumes of data. It offers a distributed, multitenant full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents on top of Apache Lucene. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to communicate with an Elasticsearch cluster using a Python Elasticsearch client.

How robotic process automation (RPA) streamlines data integration

If ServiceNow had a robotic process automation (RPA) fan club, I’d run for president. After seeing firsthand how an RPA-driven bot can improve productivity, I’m a firm believer in this technology. Not long ago, I was assigned a new project for my team: Use RPA to enhance data integration and management of our highly complex configure, price, quote (CPQ) system and processes, which our sales team uses to generate product configurations and pricing.

The Importance of Observability Pipelines in Gaining Control over Observability and Security Data

Today’s enterprises must have the capability to cope with the growing volumes of observability data, including metrics, logs, and traces. This data is a critical asset for IT operations, site reliability engineers (SREs), and security teams that are responsible for maintaining the performance and protection of data and infrastructure. As systems become more complex, the ability to effectively manage and analyze observability data becomes increasingly important.

Implementing SLAs, SLIs, and SLOs: A guide to monitoring best practices

Implementing SLAs, SLIs, and SLOs is essential for effective monitoring and maintaining optimal system performance. As companies grow, they may add a significant number of KPIs that burden their IT assets, leading to system sluggishness and employee complaints. Developers must balance business needs with IT processes, and SLAs, SLIs, and SLOs can help them achieve this balance.

Panel Discussion: Observability

Watch the Observability Panel discussion to learn how observability takes monitoring to the next level by making it simpler to discover the root cause of IT issues before services are disrupted. There is no shortage of observability platforms today; the challenge is determining the best practices that should be put in place to employ them most effectively.