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Hyperscalers: Reshaping the Optical Transport Market - And Telcos are Getting the Picture

Hyperscalers are driving the shape of new metro optical networks – literally. AWS, Microsoft and Google have reshaped data center to data center connectivity over the years and now, as they populate their data centers with telecoms equipment, they are deploying it in higher density, with a better power utilization than telcos get. This is because they are not depth constrained so can go up to 600 millimeters deep unlike the standard telco 300mm hard limitation.

Apica Ascent Triumphs in 2023 SoftwareReviews APM Report

Apica’s Ascent has achieved remarkable results in the 2023 Application Performance Management Data Quadrant Report published by SoftwareReviews, a notable source for insights on the software provider landscape. The report gathers extensive customer experience data from business and IT professionals, offering detailed and authentic insights into the experience of evaluating and purchasing enterprise software.

How IDPs support Fintech compliance initiatives

From the Regulatory Lead to the Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and development team, there are quite a few individuals involved in keeping a Financial Technology (FinTech) company compliant. And there are quite a few regulations to stay in line with: anti-money laundering (AML), know your customer (KYC), payment card industry data security standard (PCI DSS), the list goes on.

Discover the Untapped Power of AI in Predicting Correlations Before It's Too Late!

Your device pings, signaling another tech alert. Before you can address it, two more chime in. We all know the feeling. In today’s digital world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of notifications we receive. But what if there was a smarter way to handle them?

What is a Platform Engineer? Platform Engineer Job Description, Role + Responsibilities

The definition of a platform engineer can be slippery. Ask several IT professionals “What does a platform engineer do?” and you might get several different answers. One platform engineer might be at the intersection of DevOps, AppSec, architecture, and SRE, while another might broadly support infrastructure for all developers in their organization. (Sometimes, in less successful teams, they’re essentially a DevOps engineer with a fancy title.)

The Internal Developer Platform Revolution: A CTO's Guide to Transforming Software Development

As a CTO, you need to come up with new strategies and tools to ensure that your company manages the rapidly changing world of software development. Platform Engineering and Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) have become essential elements of this journey that change how software is developed and released.

Nonprofits' Silent Sentinel: How Uptime.com Is Revolutionizing Website Monitoring

In the world of nonprofits, every interaction, every donation, and every piece of content delivered serves a mission. Your website isn’t just a portal—it’s a lifeline connecting needs to solutions, dreams to reality, and intentions to impacts. However, like a capricious trickster, downtime slinks around corners, ready to sever those connections in an unanticipated moment.

Migrating a BizTalk Request-Response routing solution with LOB Adapters

Welcome again to another BizTalk Server to Azure Integration Services blog post. In my previous blog post, I discussed how you can implement the aggregation mapping pattern inside Logic Apps. Today, I will address a very interesting BizTalk Server topic and how we can redesign our solution to implement the same capabilities inside Azure Integration Services: How you can migrate a BizTalk Server content-based routing solution with LOB Adapters – in this particular case, SQL Server.