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Climate Data Unleashed: Empowering Data Engineers to Drive Environmental Change

In an era where climate change poses a formidable challenge to our planet, the power of data has never been more critical. Data engineers, with their unique skill set, stand at the forefront of this battle, harnessing the vast expanse of climate data to drive sustainable change and inform crucial decision-making. This article aims to inspire and guide data engineers looking for their next meaningful project.

6 Strategies for Cost-Effective Content Marketing

Content marketing is a crucial strategy for businesses looking to expand their audience base on digital channels. According to the Content Matters 2023 Report, launched by WordPress, content marketing is - and will continue to be - a high priority for businesses in the coming years. While the benefits of content creation remain clear, creating high-quality, engaging content continuously can eat up large chunks of a company's marketing budget. Particularly for startups and smaller enterprises in their first few years of operation, this is an important consideration.

Improving Customer Support with Squadcast Webforms: A Smart Solution for MSPs

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) handle a multitude of customer support cases, each requiring efficient routing to the right team member. Squadcast's Webforms provide a solution to expedite issue reporting and streamline resolution. In this blog, we will explore how MSPs can leverage webforms to enhance the customer support experience.

How To Monitor Cisco Catalyst Metrics with Grafana

In today's interconnected world, the reliability of network infrastructure, especially Cisco Catalyst switches, plays a key role for businesses. To ensure these critical components perform optimally, it's vital to monitor their metrics effectively. This article will show you how to effortlessly monitor Cisco Catalyst metrics with Grafana, a top-tier monitoring and visualization platform.

Ubuntu Explained: How to ensure security and stability in cloud instances-part 3

Most people know that it is important to apply security updates. It can be challenging, however, to accomplish this while maximising the uptime of the services you are running on top. Every change, even applying security patches, carries some risk of disrupting your workloads. You therefore need to be deliberate about your update strategy.

How to measure engineering team health

At SquaredUp, we have been debating how the senior leadership team can monitor the ‘health’ of our engineering teams. To do this, we decided to create a dashboard that could represent this for a team – but first, we needed to figure out what to measure. Our goal was to better understand our teams to inform which actions to take to support them and make them a happier and more productive bunch.

12 Best Ecommerce Automation Tools to Boost Your Sales

Many ecommerce business owners are tired of managing tedious and repetitive tasks, customer service enquiries, returns and complaints. Ecommerce automation might be exactly what you need to streamline your processes, increase efficiency, and ultimately save time and money. This guide explores automation tools for ecommerce that can help improve your online business.

How to Monitor MySQL Metrics with OpenTelemetry

Database monitoring is an important aspect to look at for a high-volume or high-traffic system. The database performance drastically impacts the response times for the application. In this tutorial, you will install OpenTelemetry Collector to collect MySQL metrics and then send the collected data to SigNoz for monitoring and visualization. In this tutorial, we cover: If you want to jump straight into implementation, start with this pre-requisites section.