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Although both data lakes and data warehouses are commonly used to store large amounts of data, the phrases are not interchangeable. A data lake is not a straight substitute for a data warehouse; rather, they are complementary technologies that serve a variety of use cases, some of which overlap. Most companies that have a data lake also have a data warehouse. The two methods of data storage are sometimes mistaken, yet they are vastly different.

Climate change: it’s one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Yet, while the focus is often on power plant pollution, single-use plastics, deforestation, and fossil fuels, web technologies remain among the biggest, least-visible carbon culprits. Inversely, though, it means that web technologies can be part of the solution.

Adoption of AWS Lambda functions in cloud-native applications has increased exponentially over the past few years. Serverless functions, such as the AWS Lambda service, provide a high level of abstraction from the underlying infrastructure and orchestration, given these tasks are managed by the cloud provider. Software development teams can then focus on the implementation of business and application logic.

Last week, we hosted a webinar on the easiest way to right-size – and safest way to overhaul – your architecture. One of the scenarios we’re seeing come up more and more with prospects and customers is the need to update your architecture, and particularly your security architecture, as new needs and threats arise. As I’m sure you all know, that can be a real hassle, put a strain on your resources, and put your security posture at risk if it isn’t done well.

Dear Miss O11y, How is modern observability using tracing, such as Honeycomb, different from the previous distributed tracing software I'm familiar with, like Dapper, at my company? I haven't really been able to wrap my head around Dapper. Does "advanced" observability mean that it's even more complicated than Dapper is? Auntie Alphabet.

We all had an amazing time at Dell World last week in Las Vegas. And our very own VP of Global Solutions, Raj Patnam, wanted to share a few things he learned while there. Here’s a few of his key takeaways.

One difficult part of taking on a new role, especially a technical one, is learning all the jargon. Listening in on a conversation among specialists in any field you’re not intimately familiar with can be highly confounding. It sounds like they’re speaking English. At least some of the words are English, but you’ve never heard them put together in that particular order before. I heard someone mention SMB and SME? Is that a Small to Medium Business or Small/Mid-sized Enterprise?

Earlier this year ‘MIT Center For Information Systems Research’ released a new research report on effectively using dashboards to jump-start your digital transformation initiatives. The research team found that companies with top quartile dashboard effectiveness significantly outperformed bottom-quartile companies on internal and external measures of performance. The topics discussed in this report apply well to IT monitoring initiatives as well.

As we already explained on one occasion in this blog, Windows Management Instrumentation, WMI, is a technology owned by the company Microsoft®. But there’s even more! Things have changed and we are going to tell you all about it!