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How Technology Empowers Engineering Companies for Success

With engineering projects becoming more and more complex, companies in the engineering industry are having to adapt and innovate quickly to remain competitive. Thankfully, by leveraging technology advancements such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), digital toolsets, and automated processes, many have been able to succeed.

Data at the edge: Meet modern data processing demands with edge computing

We’ve all experienced latency in some form. It’s unfortunately something we’re all too familiar with. We’ve even gone so far as to accept it as a regular albeit undesirable part of the user experience. Yet despite various steps taken over the years, it still exists and is as disruptive as ever.

2023 Cloud Cost Management Platforms: A FinOps Tools Competitive Analysis

Managing cloud costs has become a must for FinOps-focused businesses. Gotta keep a close eye on those expenses! So, what is the best way to do it? Find a platform that can help you get cost visibility and catch any cloud costs anomalies before they turn into a money waste! With tons of FinOps tools, how do you figure out which one suits your needs? And what exactly should you be looking at? We get it! There’s much to consider when picking the best platform to get those cloud cost insights.

Infrastructure Monitoring Basics with Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Open Source Summit North America. When choosing a topic, I felt it was time to return to our roots and discuss the subject that originally put InfluxDB on the map: infrastructure monitoring. What was especially exciting was the opportunity to showcase the new capabilities of InfluxDB 3.0 to the open source community and explain their significance for the future of infrastructure monitoring use cases.

How to Simplify Complex Information for a Website Audience

In an age where information flows swiftly, your website's audience craves simplicity. With vast amounts of knowledge at our fingertips, breaking down complex subjects can make all the difference between retaining or losing a visitor's interest. The key? Making intricate topics digestible. Let's explore some strategies.

How to upgrade from Aiven Free Tier

In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the process of upgrading services on the Aiven platform, empowering you to enhance the performance and capabilities of your databases. Upgrading services is essential for keeping your system up to date, benefiting from new features, and ensuring optimal performance. We'll explore how to initiate and manage service upgrades on Aiven, whether it's scaling your service, migrating to a new version, or upgrading your service plan.

What Is AWS Athena? Here's Everything You Need To Know

Amazon Athena is heralded for its simplicity, pay-per-query pricing, and speed. Others say Athena has its fair share of limitations, which could affect your overall analytics experience and quality of analyses. So, what is what? In this post, we’ll share what Amazon Athena does, compare it to Amazon Redshift, and share how to understand and control your Athena costs in AWS (with just one tool).

12 Best Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tools

In today’s fast-paced world, applications are vital for driving businesses forward. However, without proper monitoring and insights into your application’s performance, you can’t identify what causes slow response times, high CPU usage, or database bottlenecks. But with an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool, you can gain deep visibility into your application’s performance by tracking critical metrics.

How Pepperdata Does What Nobody Else Does

Here at Pepperdata, we’ve been on a number of sales calls lately where there’s a sense of incredulity on the other side of the video screen. How does Pepperdata extract as much as 50 percent in cost savings from some of the most sophisticated clusters in the world, the ones that had already been optimized for peak performance by the most dedicated and talented IT teams? It almost seems too good to be true. It’s not.

What is a Real-Time Data Lake?

A data lake is a centralized data repository where structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from a variety of sources can be stored in their raw format. Data lakes help eliminate data silos by acting as a single landing zone for data from multiple sources. But what’s the difference between a traditional data lake and a real-time data lake?