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The impact of plastic on the skincare industry

In recent decades, the skincare industry has grown exponentially, with countless new products promising to improve our skin. However, while we focus on the ingredients in these products, we often forget another crucial aspect: the packaging. Plastic packaging dominates the market, but its disadvantages are becoming increasingly apparent. In this article, we discuss the impact of plastic on the skincare industry and why glass packaging is a more sustainable and healthier alternative.

10 Best Practices for Ruby on Rails Development

There is much to learn when coding with Ruby on Rails, and the steep learning curve is not always easy. Fortunately, as an open-source web development framework, there is a large community backing RoR that can always be sought out with questions. Chances are someone has already written a tutorial or has the advice to streamline what you're trying to do with Ruby on Rails. Here are the best practices for Ruby on Rails development for your web development project.

6 Technology Ideas to Improve Retail Stores

In today's competitive retail world, using technology in stores is no longer just a trend. It's essential for making shopping both efficient and engaging. The right tech tools can help stores run smoothly, improve customer service, and create a modern and connected atmosphere. Adopting technology thoughtfully can make a big difference for store owners who want to stay ahead. Here are some technology ideas for improving customer experience in retail stores.
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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.

Regex vs Search Terms - Finding What You Need In Your Logs

This is an updated version of an earlier blog post that now includes links to our documentation. Full-text searches are a marvel of modern computing. In less than a second, search engines can match a query against hundreds of millions of documents. In the early days of search engines, you often had to use specific search operators and terms to get accurate results.

Grafana dashboards are now powered by Scenes: big changes, same UI

Though you might not immediately notice it the next time you log in, Grafana’s frontend has undergone a major upgrade. We recently migrated our dashboard architecture to utilize the Grafana Scenes library, enabling the creation of more stable, dynamic, and flexible Scenes-powered dashboards. Yes, the UI is pretty much the same, but under the hood, the engine responsible for visualizing the dashboards used by millions of people around the world has largely been rewritten.

Fixing Long Animation Frames (LoAF)

You’ve found some Long Animation Frames (LoAFs) impacting your site, now you need to fix them! LoAFs can make animations feel sluggish, delay user interactions, and generally reduce your site’s responsiveness, all of which contribute to a frustrating experience for users. Fortunately, by analyzing LoAF data and addressing common performance bottlenecks, you can dramatically improve how smoothly your site runs.

Nearly 90% of our AI Crawler Traffic is From TikTok Parent Bytedance - Lessons Learned

This month, Fortune.com reported that TikTok’s web scraper — known as Bytespider — is aggressively sucking up content to fuel generative AI models. We noticed the same thing when looking at bot management analytics produced by HAProxy Edge — our global network that we ourselves use to serve traffic for haproxy.com. Some of the numbers we are seeing are fairly shocking, so let’s review the traffic sources and where they originate.

How to Balance Load in Kafka for Improved Performance

Keeping a Kafka cluster optimized can feel like a balancing act. Every piece—brokers, partitions, producers, and consumers—has to work in harmony, or you’ll start running into bottlenecks. To get Kafka to run smoothly and handle growing traffic loads, balancing load across the system is key. Let’s go over practical load-balancing techniques that can improve Kafka performance, keep everything running efficiently, and prevent data slowdowns from building up.