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Running Spark with Jupyter Notebook & HDFS on Kubernetes

Kublr and Kubernetes can help make your favorite data science tools easier to deploy and manage. Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) carries the burden of storing big data; Spark provides many powerful tools to process data; while Jupyter Notebook is the de facto standard UI to dynamically manage the queries and visualization of results.

How I integrated Intercom into my SaaS's Vue.js app

In a recent post on customer feedback I mentioned being a recent convert to chat widget-driven tools. I thought they sucked, but I was wrong. Since then, I actually switched from Drift to Intercom because Intercom's focus — support & communication — matched my business better than Drift's heavy sales focus. To get the most out of Intercom, you need to integrate it with your app. This means instrumenting some code and tweaking some bits of your app's navigation.

How to Monitor Fastly CDN Logs with Sumo Logic

In the last post, we talked about the different ways to monitor Fastly CDN log and why it’s crucial to get a deeper understanding of your log data through a service like Sumo Logic. In the final post of our Fastly CDN blog series, we will discuss how to use Sumo Logic to get the most insights out of your log data — from how to collect Fastly CDN log data to the various Sumo Logic dashboards for Fastly.

A Guide to Streams in PHP: In-Depth Tutorial With Examples

You’ve already used PHP streams in your PHP development. However, they’re transparent, so you may not have noticed them. Streams are powerful tools. In this article, you’ll learn to harness the power of streams in your PHP development and take your applications to the next level. Streams provide on-demand access to data. This means you don’t need to load the entire contents of your dataset into memory before processing can start.

Top WooCommerce Extensions For Enhancing Online Shop

Are you using WooCommerce for your online shop? If yes, then you’ve made the finest decisions for your business. With WooCommerce, it is fairly easy and cost-effective to set up your digital store. After the successful set up of the online portal, it’s time to take it to the next level. The best way to do is to implement WooCommerce extensions to give an edge over the competitors.

Geographically Balancing Your Web Application with a FlexBalancer

Using a Content Delivery Network (CDN) is one of the most effective ways of increasing the performance of delivering static content to your end users. CDNs operate by caching your static content in a globally distributed network and delivering that same content to your end users at the nearest point of presence. There is nothing magical about why CDNs are fast, they simply use the laws of physics. It takes a shorter amount of time to walk one block than it does one mile.

Install Uptrends' new mobile app for Android and iOS

We’re happy to tell you that we’ve released a brand new mobile app for Android and iOS! We released the first version a few months ago on Android, and we’ve since added some great new features. The new version is ready for you in either the Google Play Store or Apple’s App Store. The perfect addition to your website monitoring regime.

Apache Web Server Monitoring with the ELK Stack and Logz.io

Serving over 44% of the world’s websites, Apache is by far the most popular web server used today. Apache, aka Apache HTTP Server, aka Apache HTTPd, owes its popularity to its ease of use and open-source nature but also its inherent flexibility that allows engineers to extend Apache’s core functionality to suit specific needs.

Worth a Look: More Public Grafana Dashboards

A couple months ago, we wrote about some Grafana dashboards that large organizations, for a variety of reasons, have made public with their actual live data. And we followed that up with a look inside the public dashboards at GitLab, a self-described “ridiculously transparent” company. It’s always interesting to see how Grafana users are setting up their visualizations, so we decided to do another roundup. Check these dashboards out, and get inspired.