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Jason Hepp tells you about how Aiven provides intrinsic trust and value in your organization.

We're happy to announce that we've added a feature that will enable you to create folders for your custom metric dashboards.

In this article, you’ll learn how Starlink works in a domestic environment, and how to monitor Starlink connection with Prometheus. SpaceX’s Starlink uses satellites in low-earth orbit to provide high-speed Internet services to most of the planet. During the beta, Starlink expects users to see data speeds vary from 50Mb/s to 150Mb/s and latency from 20ms to 40ms. It’s also expected that there will be brief periods of no connectivity at all.

With the emergence of the hybrid solutions, solutions such as BizTalk Server that were purely on-premises solutions are communicating with SaaS solutions and are being deployed in a hybrid model. There are many advantages to cloud integration. Organizations can take advantage of powerful features of the Azure Platform and other cloud-based services from Microsoft, such as Service Bus, Logic Apps, Power BI, and Event Hub.

Getting your pricing right is critical to the success of any SaaS company, but finding a model that works can be tough. Price too high, you won’t close enough deals - your business will fail. Price too low, your business model will be unsustainable - your business will fail. To add to the complication, when you’re a new startup your goals are evolving.

We’ve discussed this topic many times during our NinjaOne MSP Live Chats, and the fact is it’s an important question to consider regardless of your plans for exiting your business. Even if you’re not planning to sell your MSP, knowing the factors that play into your MSP’s valuation and understanding the metrics that owners and investors use to evaluate and optimize MSP businesses is key.

Back in November 2021, Grafana Labs released version 2.4 of Grafana Loki. One of the new features it included was a Promtail Kafka Consumer that can easily ingest messages out of Kafka and into Loki for storing, querying, and visualization. Kafka has always been an important technology for distributed streaming data architectures, so I wanted to share a working example of how to use it to help you get started.

Many.NET applications and frameworks support a plugin based model. Also known as “add-in” or “extension” model. A plugin model allows extension or customization of functionality by adding assemblies and config files to a directory that is scanned at application startup. For example.

The world is going digital with lightning speed. According to this report by Statista, at the beginning of January 2021, there were 4.66 billion active internet users in the world, which accounts for 59.5 percent of the world's population, and out of this 4.66 billion, around 4.32 billion (92.6%) users have accessed the internet by mobile. All companies regardless of the sector in which they operate, want to use the internet for expanding their business.

The rise of cloud native and containerization, along with the automation of the CI/CD pipeline, introduced fundamental changes to existing application development, deployment, and security paradigms. Because cloud native is so different from traditional architectures, both in how workloads are developed and how they need to be secured, there is a need to rethink our approach to security in these environments.