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Lessons learned while scaling Collapsed Reply Threads

When the first supporting server-side infrastructure for Collapsed Reply Threads (CRT) shipped with Mattermost v5.29 (November 2020), it included an ominous release note: > This setting is enabled by default and may affect server performance. While performance concerns are possible with any new feature, most features don’t require significant architecture and data model changes. Most features don’t ship incrementally across 20 monthly releases. And most features – to their credit?

Continuous Training and Deployment for Machine Learning (ML) at the Edge

Running machine learning (ML) inference in Edge devices close to where the data is generated offers several important advantages over running inference remotely in the cloud. These include real-time processing, lower cost, the ability to work without connectivity and with increased privacy.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) vs. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

The heart of any software development operation is infrastructure. This combination of virtual and physical assets ensures that the flow, storage, processing, and analysis of data remains efficient and as seamless as possible. When it comes to selecting a model for managing and deploying infrastructure, IT managers typically have two choices: infrastructure as code (IAC) or infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

We've raised $34M to help organisations be resilient in the face of failure

TL;DR: We’ve raised $34M to bring increased resilience to organisations around the world. With this latest round of investment we’re expanding internationally in the US, accelerating our product plans, and growing our amazing team 🎉 As technology becomes more complicated and runs an ever greater part of our lives, failure becomes more inevitable, and more costly.

12 SaaS Renewal Best Practices To Ensure Profitability

This is no secret to you. It costs up to seven times more to attract a new customer than to keep an existing one. Upselling an existing customer is also easier than upselling to a new one. So, keeping customers will increase your revenue and profitability. Not to mention, current customers are likely to buy more goods and services than new ones. But that's not all. The longer you keep a customer, the higher their Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) grows, thus maximizing your return on investment.

Announcing HIPAA compliance for Upsun

If you’ve worked with us before, you know we take security seriously. We take measures necessary to safeguard your sensitive and personally identifiable information and comply with a variety of compliance standards. These include maintaining best security practices and aligning with regulations such as SOC-2, PCI-DSS, and GDPR.