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Top tips: 4 innovative ways IoT today can keep the doctor away

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week we’re looking at four revolutionary ways IoT is transforming healthcare. The past four years have brought about a series of unprecedented events that challenged our worldview, our lifestyle, and most importantly, how we view healthcare.

A Look at How the Cloud Has Streamlined Financial Management

In modern business, the role of technology has become increasingly pivotal, revolutionizing the way organizations operate and manage their resources. One of the most transformative technological advancements in recent years has been the widespread adoption of cloud computing. The cloud has not only altered the way businesses store and access data but has also significantly streamlined various aspects of financial management. This article delves into the multifaceted ways in which the cloud has reshaped financial management, making processes more efficient, cost-effective, and flexible.

Take Back Control of Your Workflows, Data, and Costs with Splunk Observability

Engineering and ITOps teams have an important mission: keeping their software and digital systems performing and reliable. But as we’re about to embrace a new year full of changes, industry shifts, and AI developments, this mission is challenged by increasingly complex environments, technology alternatives, and an overwhelming number of tools available. The result? Overages, tool sprawl, and toil, which all lead to longer times to detect and resolve issues.

Monitor HAProxy Metrics and Logs with OpenTelemetry [Step By Step Guide]

For extremely high throughput web applications, it is important to load balance the traffic across multiple servers. However, load balancing the traffic alone is not enough at times. The reverse proxy server that handles the workload needs to be performant, too. In our previous article, we discussed the NGINX reverse proxy server and understood how to monitor it. In this article, we set up monitoring for an even more performant reverse proxy server - HAProxy.

Backstage Developer Portal

Backstage, a development portal, allows developers to maintain constant vigilance over the health of their networks and services, no matter where they are deployed. This is invaluable to teams, as many different deployments across different environments need to be monitored to ensure security and compliance. Find out how to evaluate, implement, and succeed with Backstage in order to maintain your security perimeter and ensure that all deployments are working as intended.

Tradeoffs In Software Engineering

Tradeoff: a balance achieved between two desirable but incompatible features; a compromise. Schooling often promotes the idea that there is a right and wrong answer to questions… It does little to prepare us for how many times that there are multiple right answers and no definitive best path forward. In a time where we have unlimited information at our fingertips, you can throw a stone and hit a thousand people with an opinion.

A deep dive into CPU requests and limits in Kubernetes

In a previous blog post, we explained how containers’ CPU and memory requests can affect how they are scheduled. We also introduced some of the effects CPU and memory limits can have on applications, assuming that CPU limits were enforced by the Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) quota. In this post, we are going to dive a bit deeper into CPU and share some general recommendations for specifying CPU requests and limits.

Application Observability in Minutes: How to Implement App 360

As applications in the cloud become more distributed and complex, the Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) for production issues is getting longer. Modern systems are built with hundreds of distinct, ephemeral, and interconnected cloud components, which can make it exceptionally hard for engineers to understand the current state of their applications, what problems are impacting customers, and why those problems are occurring.

How To Use AUTOSAR Runnables With Tracealyzer

Tracing of “runnables” is a fairly new feature in Percepio Tracealyzer, added in v4.7.0. One of our automotive customers needed this feature to make ISO 26262 certification of their Electronic Control Unit (ECU) software easier. In order to properly allocate ECU functions to tasks and to cores, and to ensure that they meet the budgeted resources, it is useful to know execution times, response times and wait times for each task and runnable.