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The pros and cons of cloud-native infrastructure

Cloud computing has emerged as a game changer for organizations looking for agility and flexibility from their IT infrastructures. A cloud-native infrastructure further enhances this by using microservices, containers, and DevOps for a scalable foundation for modern applications. However, like any technology, it has its advantages and disadvantages. In this article, we'll discuss the pros and cons of cloud-native infrastructure so you can decide if it's the right fit for your business.

IMACD Process: Installation, Move, Add, Change, and Disposal

As a business or organization grows, managing your IT infrastructure and equipment becomes more and more complicated. Enter IMACD: Installation, Move, Add, Change, and Disposal. An approach simplifies the lifecycle management of IT resources, ensuring that businesses remain agile, secure, and efficient.

Migrating from Perforce to Git

Article updated July 2024 Source control, aka version control, is the method of tracking and managing changes to software code. Source Control Management (SCM) systems offer a running history of code changes and can be particularly helpful for teams of developers making changes to the same files. As a critical aspect of responsible software development, source control helps developers track code changes, see complete revision history, and revert back to a previous version of a project if needed.

What Is Load Balancing?

Load Balancing is the process of distributing network traffic among multiple server resources. The objective of load balancing is to optimize certain network operations. Ensuring that a workload is spread evenly among the computing resources, this “balanced load” improves application responsiveness and accommodates unexpected traffic spikes — all without compromising application performance. Let’s take a deeper look at this important networking function.

Accelerate development with Groovy and Java integration

In the fast-paced world of software development, efficiency is everything. Developers are constantly under pressure to keep up with rapid technological changes, unclear requirements, and tight deadlines. With the demand for skilled developers rapidly increasing and projected to grow by 22% by 2029 in the US alone , finding ways to enhance productivity and streamline workflows can provide a much-needed relief, making the difference between delivering a project on time or spending long nights debugging.

Data Optimization Technique: Route Data to Specialized Processing Chains

In most situations, you will have several sources of telemetry data that you want to send to multiple destinations, such as storage locations and observability tools. In turn, the data that you are sending needs to be optimized for its specific destination. If your data contains Personally Identifying Information (PII) for example, this data will need to be redacted or encrypted before reaching its destination.

Monitor the Performance of your Python FastAPI App with AppSignal

While building an app with FastAPI can be reasonably straightforward, deploying and operating it might be more challenging. The whole user experience can be ruined by unexpected errors, slow responses, or even worse — downtime. AppSignal is a great tool of choice for efficiently tracking your FastAPI app's performance. It allows you to easily monitor average/95th percentile/90th percentile response times, error rates, throughput, and much more. Useful charts are available out of the box.

Staffing Up Your CoPE

Getting the right people working in the CoPE is crucial to success because these change agents must limber up the organization and promote the flexibility necessary to perform resilience. We’ll look for teammates who share enough in common to work well together, but who don’t necessarily perfectly overlap so that they can play off each other’s strengths.

Optimizing Data Access: Best Practices for Partitioning in Cribl

The more customers I talk to, the more I see a trend toward wanting a low-cost vendor-agnostic data lake. Customers want the freedom to store their data long-term and typically look to object stores from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. To optimize for data access, users will partition their data into directories to optimize for use cases such as Cribl Replay and Cribl Search. Only relevant files will be accessed for rehydration or search by partitioning data.

Optimizing Space Technology: Fast Data Access with InfluxDB and Apache Parquet

To win the space race, aerospace and aviation companies must be fast. The end-to-end cycle of testing, visualizing test data, and making improvements demands swiftness, especially when a single launch yields billions of data points. It starts with real-time access to data. Real-time data analysis with nanosecond precision is crucial for monitoring environmental and habitat conditions when lives are at stake. Speeding up the iteration pipeline is essential but not sufficient. Cost efficiency matters too.