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Top Traffic Shadowing Alternatives for Efficient Load Testing and Refactoring

This article explores the best alternatives to traffic shadowing for conducting efficient load testing and refactoring. Traffic shadowing has been a popular technique, however, it’s not without its challenges and limitations. We delve into several innovative methods that promise to provide deeper insights, improved accuracy, and greater efficiency.

How the dbForge SQL Tools Accelerated Creating Complex Queries and Boosted Financial Data Management at TC Transcontinental

An ability to work with databases with increased efficiency and speed can essentially contribute to a company’s success, assisting with the optimization of the overall workflow and the reduction of operational costs as there is less time one needs to spend on SQL coding, refactoring, and code optimization. However, it takes effort to find a product that would help with these goals while being reliable and stable and providing fast results without requiring any complex onboarding.
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Platform Engineering: A Deep Dive into Building the Foundation for Modern Software Delivery

In the ever-evolving software development landscape, platform engineering has risen to prominence as a pivotal practice, transforming how organizations build, maintain, and operate internal infrastructure. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, companies are under immense pressure to deliver software faster, more reliably, and at scale. Platform engineering provides the foundation for achieving this by creating and maintaining internal developer platforms (IDPs) that streamline the development process, enabling developers to focus on writing code rather than managing complex infrastructure.

Going Beyond CloudWatch: 5 Steps to Better Log Analytics & Analysis

Amazon CloudWatch is a great tool for DevOps engineers, developers, SREs, and other IT personnel who require basic Amazon Web Services (AWS) log processing and analytics for cloud services and applications deployed on AWS. However, most developer teams will ultimately need more logging functionality than a basic AWS log analyzer like Amazon Cloudwatch can provide. For example: That’s why, although CloudWatch may be one tool in your log analytics strategy, it probably should not be the only one.

School Safety: A Paramount Priority for One of the Largest U.S. School Districts

This team’s dedication to safety is not just a job; it’s a passion. They understand that every decision they make, every system they implement, and every policy they enforce directly impacts the well-being of the students in their care. This commitment is what drives them to continuously innovate, seeking out the best communication tools and technologies to stay ahead of any potential threats.

Implementing Clean Architecture in Next.js

In this workshop you’ll get a deep dive into Clean Architecture and answer the questions: What is Clean Architecture? What problems does it solve? How to implement Clean Architecture in Next.js? You will also learn how to use Sentry to instrument your backend and see how you can use the Trace View to identify performance issues in your application.

SquaredUp Live 2024: A round-up of our virtual customer workshop

Last week, we were very excited to host our second virtual customer workshop! We’d received so much positive feedback on last year’s debut that we knew we had to do it again. Using the digital conferencing app Gather Town, we were pleased to welcome 89 attendees from 13 different countries to our virtual “SquaredUp Town”.

Differentiating Sumo Logic Mo Copilot using Amazon Bedrock

Sumo Logic Mo Copilot is a natural language assistant that helps first responders derive insights from logs and resolve issues faster using contextual suggestions and plain English queries. It has been in preview since May 2024 with dozens of customers. Choosing a foundation model was a critical step in its development. Let’s explore our high-level requirements for Copilot, the role of foundation models and the rationale for standardizing on Amazon Bedrock.

Beginners guide - Visualizing Canvas in Grafana | Grafana Labs

In this video, Grafana Developer Advocate Leandro Melendez describes how Canvas panels combine the power of Grafana with the flexibility of custom elements. They are extensible visualizations that allow you to add and arrange elements wherever you want within unstructured static and dynamic layouts. This lets you design custom visualizations and overlay data in ways that aren’t possible with standard Grafana visualizations, all within the Grafana UI.

Web Performance Experts Look into the Future of Web Performance

Last month, web performance experts from leading brands joined an exclusive session with the Catchpoint product team to explore new features and future enhancements in WebPageTest and Catchpoint Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM). This post shares highlights from that session.