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What Is A Time-Series Metric?

Today, businesses and organizations rely heavily on metrics and analytics to make informed decisions. Metrics are important whether you’re a developer, a marketer, or the head of a company. One type of metric that is widely used is a time-series metric. Time-series metrics provide insights into how data changes over time. With time-series data, businesses can track trends, detect anomalies, and make predictions.

The case for engineering automation

When you survey developers on how to improve engineering practices and their daily job experience, their answers invariably include getting rid of little annoying things - what's called toil. Toil is manual and repetitive tasks that waste your time. Toil is arguably worse than crisis, because a crisis is temporary and firefighting can feel rewarding when it's over. Toil is more like a death march - an insidious force that eventually leads to burnout.

PostgreSQL Database Monitoring

PostgreSQL is one of the most popular relational databases on the market today with more than 1.5 billion users. This article will discuss everything you need to know about monitoring PostgreSQL, and how you can use it to optimize your site's data monitoring. If you want to get started right away on PostgreSQL database monitoring with MetricFire, you can book a demo or sign up for the free trial today.

Kubeflow vs MLFlow

Learn the main differences between the MLOps tools of choice: Kubeflow and MLFlow Started by Google a couple of years ago, Kubeflow is an end-to-end MLOps platform for AI at scale. Canonical has its own distribution, Charmed Kubeflow, which addresses the entire machine-learning lifecycle. Charmed Kubeflow is a suite of tools, such as Notebooks for training, Pipeline for automation, Katib for hyperparameter tuning or KServe for model serving and more. Charmed Kubeflow benefits from a wide range of integrations with other tools such as MLFlow, Spark, Grafana or Prometheus.

Securing open source software with Platform One and Canonical

Our own Devin Breen and Mark Lewis discussed Securing Open Source Software with the Chairman of Iron Bank at USAF Platform One Zachary Burke at AWS Summit Washington, DC. The topic includes: Securing Open Source Software, Secure Minimal Containers, and Software Security Scanning.