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Read on to find out about the best bits of this year's London Kafka Summit, back as an in-person event.

For an application developer, there is certainly a long road between an idea/feature and getting deployed into production with Kubernetes. From a development perspective, having a low barrier of entry and the ability to iterate is key. From a platform engineering/DevOps perspective, creating gains in engineering efficiency all while creating and enforcing policies that do not stifle innovation is key.

Talking to a device, a watch, or a virtual assistant is becoming an everyday activity as chatting on the phone. While many of us are used to taking part in a live webchat with a real person, speaking to a computer rather than typing on a screen has been an adjustment. But it's not nearly as unfamiliar an experience as it once was, and it has many advantages. Voice search is a convenient, hands-free way to access information, news, entertainment, and of course, websites.

Bringing the best software solutions to market as quickly as possible requires using automation to facilitate repetitive tasks (e.g., testing) so you can spend more time writing high-quality code. This is one of the main reasons why today’s top-performing dev teams build continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery or continuous deployment (CD) pipelines, which enable them to ship new releases faster.

This is the first part of a two-part blog series on ScienceLogic’s partner ecosystem.

We are delighted to introduce the new first-party ClickHouse plugin for Grafana, developed by Grafana in collaboration with ClickHouse. Grafana is committed to continuing our partnership and maintaining this plugin, and we’re excited to add more features and to grow with ClickHouse. But why Grafana + ClickHouse?

In the alphabet soup of IT buzzwords, DevSecOps is one of the more confusing abbreviations. More than just a trendy buzzword, DevSecOps is the mature organization’s next evolution in comprehensive development processes.

As the future of hosting in the cloud continues to evolve and expand, LogicMonitor continues to work to empower admins with useful insights and valuable data to make smart business decisions. Azure Cost Management with LogicMonitor helps optimize cost when planning future rollouts, auditing others already in-flight, and capturing shareable items on a recurring basis or with live access for accounting or management teams to get quick insight into Azure costs.

Creating a seamless digital support experience can make employees, service desk agents, and businesses more successful. Automating mundane, time-consuming tasks, such as triaging incidents and shifting to a proactive support model offers numerous benefits: That’s why ServiceNow and Microsoft entered a strategic partnership to help mutual customers accelerate digital transformation, create great experiences, and unlock productivity, including leveraging artificial intelligence (AI).