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Today, businesses are increasingly reliant on their ability to provide uninterrupted service and respond swiftly to any disruptions. Whether it's a website outage, a malfunctioning application, or hardware failure, downtime can significantly affect a company's operations. Customers expect quick resolutions, and delays can result in dissatisfaction, loss of trust, and ultimately, business failure.

Check out Ken Ahrens and Scott Moore as they discuss some blockers of developer productivity when building in Kubernetes, and how removing environment and data challenges can reduce toil and frustration! You can catch the full podcast on Scott’s page here: Scott Moore: Hey everybody out there in internet meme land. It’s time to hide your kids and hide your wife because it’s time for the SMC Journal podcast. Some of you will get that joke. Others will not.

In blog one of this series, we discussed how orchestration is about data. In blog two, we talked about how effective orchestration with advanced data management techniques can be used to develop a digital twin. In this blog, we will discuss what we can do with all that data. More specifically, we’ll take a look at using data-empowered RAG AI to deliver stateful orchestration.

Lucene is an open-source full-text search library written in Java, used to add search functionality to applications and websites. It is known for its efficiency and flexibility, commonly utilized in Elasticsearch and Kibana for complex search operations.

This article shares our experience migrating from the AWS Cluster Auto Scaler to Karpenter. We provide an overview of the steps we took to install Karpenter. This article is the first in a series dedicated to Karpenter. In future posts, we will cover other aspects of using Karpenter.

Data centers are among the largest consumers of energy worldwide, accounting for up to 3% of global electricity consumption, a figure expected to rise with increasing demand for computing power and services. Energy consumption is a main concern in the data center industry as managers struggle to find ways to improve overall efficiency and environmental sustainability amidst the green wave of new reporting and operating regulations.

In a time where sustainability is a critical concern, data centers play a pivotal role in shaping the future of environmental responsibility. Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is a core metric in assessing the energy efficiency of data centers. But how exactly does PUE relate to sustainability, and what role does it play in the broader context of ecological responsibility?

Want to learn more about the best synthetic monitoring tools in 2024? You’ve come to the right place. Synthetic monitoring refers to the process of using a software to test and evaluate the functionality of an application or a website. By following a script, synthetic monitoring mimics the behavior of a user, navigating through pages or filling out forms.

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