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Follow-up Fundamentals: Mastering Lead Nurturing Techniques in Real Estate CRM

At its core, real estate lead nurturing is all about building and maintaining customer relationships. Knowing what clients need and why they need it can help real estate agencies cultivate stronger relationships with their customers and drive traffic to listings and high-value web pages. This results in both sales and repeat sales.

Understanding Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in SharePoint Online

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is a sophisticated method designed to streamline the management of user permissions within software environments, including SharePoint Online. At its core, RBAC allows administrators to assign system access to users based on their role within an organization rather than on an individual basis. This approach simplifies the process of granting appropriate access levels by grouping permissions into roles that correspond to job functions.

The real origins of the Agile Manifesto

In February 2001, 17 people met at the Snowbird ski resort in Utah. They were the leading exponents of Extreme Programming, Scrum, and Adaptive Software Development, and they were seeking a set of compatible values based on trust, respect and collaboration. They wanted to make software development easier. And they found it in the form of a manifesto. Their only concern was that the term describing the manifesto came from a ‘Brit’ and they weren’t sure how to pronounce it.

Comparing OpenTelemetry and Jaeger | Key Features

Jaeger and OpenTelemetry are essential technologies that greatly improve the observability of software applications. OpenTelemetry is a vendor-neutral platform that makes it easier to create and collect telemetry data, including logs, traces, and metrics. Its extensive backend integration adaptabilities allow it to fit into a wide range of infrastructures. However, Jaeger is an expert in distributed tracing within microservice environments.

What is the OpenTelemetry Transform Language (OTTL)?

The OpenTelemetry Transformation Language, or OTTL for short, offers a powerful way to manipulate telemetry data within the OpenTelemetry Collector. It can be leveraged in conjunction with OpenTelemetry processors (such as filter, routing, and transform), core components of the OpenTelemetry Collector. It caters to a range of tasks from simple alterations to complex changes.

APM From a Developer's Perspective

In twenty years of software development, I did not have the privilege of being on call, of tending to my software in production. I’ve never understood what “APM” means. Anybody can tell me what it stands for—Application Performance Monitoring (or sometimes, the M means Management)—but what does it mean? What do people use APM for?

Incident Commander Training Strategies: What The Books Don't Tell You

It has been lightly revised and reposted with his permission from the original article on Medium. So, you’re training incident commanders (IC), and you have your group read Google’s SRE books. Everyone knows what they are supposed to do and you are ready for any incident, right? Not quite. Half of your team complains that the descriptions are too vague or don’t apply to their situations, and the other half just starts to improvise. The result?

Gartner Lays out Three Use Cases of Network Detection and Response (NDR) Adoption

The Gartner recent report, “Emerging Tech: Top Use Cases for Network Detection and Response”, lays out three primary use case drives, which include: Before we dive deeper into Gartner findings, let’s talk about NDR from a high level.

LangChain tutorial: A guide to building LLM-powered applications

Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and LLaMA have created a whole world of possibilities over the past couple of years. It’s heralded a boom in AI tools and applications, and ChatGPT has become a household name seemingly overnight. But this boom wouldn’t be possible without the powerful tools and frameworks created to facilitate this new generation of apps. One of these frameworks is LangChain, which makes it easy to build new apps using existing LLMs.

Build better Service Level Objectives (SLOs) from logs and metrics

In today's digital landscape, applications are at the heart of both our personal and professional lives. We've grown accustomed to these applications being perpetually available and responsive. This expectation places a significant burden on the shoulders of developers and operations teams.