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Edge Computing is the Future, and Containerization is that Indispensable First Step

Gartner defines edge computing as solutions that facilitate data processing at or near the source of data generation. In this context edge computing is a key consideration while planning your digital business roadmap. Many scenarios like autonomous driving cars and industrial equipment monitoring systems have very low latency tolerance. Large volumes of data are collected and analyzed instantaneously to take action. Even a delay of milliseconds renders the data stale and useless.

Challenges Monitoring ReactJS Applications

ReactJS combines the speed of JavaScript with unique rendering capabilities to make applications that are highly dynamic, performance oriented, and responsive to user input. State of JS report 2018 cites performance as the major reason ReactJS has gained so much popularity in such a short time. When it comes to options for building single-page applications (SPAs), React delivers performance advantages over Angular and other JavaScript frameworks and libraries.

Monitoring a Pulse Oximeter with InfluxDB - A Parent's Perspective

This article was contributed by Michael Hinkle, Probe Engineering and Manufacturing Supervisor at Texas Instruments. My name is Mike Hinkle, and I use InfluxDB to monitor my daughter’s pulse oximeter and to better understand her overall health. Through my career as an engineer, currently at Texas Instruments, I was aware of time series databases and I love to play with various technologies.

Migrating your Splunkbase App and Users to Splunk 8.0

Earlier this year Python 2 entered End of Life — and Splunk has already released versions of Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise that provide a Python 3 runtime. As the developer of an app that is published to Splunkbase, if your app contains Python code, you need to update it to work with Python 3 and Splunk Enterprise 8.0 by July 1, 2020 as the Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud releases after that date will no longer support the Python 2 runtime.

Online Sales Are Up! Ensure Your E-Commerce Platform is Not Being Used for Fraud

Even with tough economic times, e-commerce is up 25% since the beginning of March. But, fraud has increased as well; according to Malwarebytes online credit card skimming has increased by 26% in March alone. In our April “Staff Picks for Splunk Security Reading” blog post, I referenced a story about an e-commerce site getting hacked with a “virtual card skimmer” (thanks Matthew Joseff for sharing this with me).

Accelerating your Zendesk customer support response times by 50% and meeting support SLAs

Zendesk is one of the most popular ticketing support and customer service platforms available in the market. Two metrics that measure the effectiveness of your customer support are the response and resolution times — how soon are you able to respond to a customer ticket, and how soon are you able to mobilize relevant personnel, perform necessary remediation tasks and finally resolve the ticket.

Heroku Logs - The Complete Guide

Platforms like Heroku give you the freedom to focus on building great applications rather than getting lost setting up and maintaining infrastructure. One of the many great features of working with it is the Heroku logs that enable monitoring your stack error troubleshooting. It helps speed up the process when things go wrong. In this Heroku tutorial, we’ll uncover best practices for making the most of Heroku logs.