Mastodon recently became a popular decentralized alternative to Twitter and, more importantly, a way to own your part of a global social network. Mastodon servers can interact with all other fediverse servers (including other Mastodon server). You don't have to own your Mastodon server to get started, you can even join the Mastodon of Qoddi.

I’m frequently asked about why customers select SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability. Given the wide variety of options available, I thought it would be helpful to put together a compilation of what customers have told us as their top reasons for making the switch.

Microsoft Azure Monitor allows customers to get critical details about their Azure cloud environments and services. The API for Azure Monitor can be a great way for teams to pull this information into their own storage systems for further analysis. However, it can be an overwhelming amount of data to process. Sysdig can help with this problem and eliminate time and effort. Here is how we do it …

Greetings from Las Vegas, and the first “normal” AWS (Amazon Web Services) re:Invent since the show in 2019! We made it! Now begins the recovery and the slog back to “normal.” It does not matter if it was your first, third, or even fifth AWS re:Invent experience. You always end up walking away learning something new or finding new tools that you did not know you needed, and as always, more swag and freebies from the convention floor than you thought possible.

As businesses strive to keep up with the speed of digital transformation, they’re turning to DevOps practices to help them automate the delivery of code changes. In a world where delivering secure quality software updates fast-drives business value, enter the JFrog Cloud DevOps Platform. The JFrog Platform unifies, accelerates, and secures your software delivery, from development to distribution.

For data professionals interested in data modeling, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, Databricks offers a powerful cloud data platform. The Databricks Lakehouse combines data lake and data warehouse capabilities in one architecture. This makes Databricks particularly suitable for building sophisticated data analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) models. Plus, Databricks claims its lakehouse is up to 12X cheaper than traditional alternatives.

Are your Apache Impala queries running slow and not achieving peak performance? Given Impala’s complexity, troubleshooting can be very difficult. Optimizing query performance is near impossible without the right tools. Good news: Pepperdata Query Spotlight now supports Apache Impala.

Redundancy is a concept that is often used in the digital world, but what does it mean? Here, we will explore the definition of redundancy, the benefits it offers, the various types of redundancy, how to implement redundancy in computing, redundancy systems and technologies, how to protect the cloud from natural disasters, and the benefits and drawbacks of redundancy. By the end of this article, you will have a better understanding of what redundancy is and how it can be beneficial to your business.

The Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2023 report makes predictions across a number of industries for the coming year. Here are the ones that excite us the most.

Applications and servers need to be constantly monitored to prevent failure and also be able to detect issues on time. This blog post outlines how developers can use Prometheus to monitor applications on AWS EC2 instances.