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LightMesh + AWS: Secure Subnet Discovery and Unified IPAM at Scale

LightMesh now integrates with AWS, providing automated discovery and unified management of your cloud networking resources. This powerful integration eliminates fragmented visibility across VPCs and regions, giving you real-time insights into your entire AWS infrastructure through a single, intuitive platform.

A Guide to Retiring SDH & TDM Networks

The telecommunications industry is witnessing a significant transformation as operators realize the urgent need to retire their legacy Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) and TDM networks. With the advances of packet networks, this migration is not just a necessary transition but a strategic opportunity to enhance service offerings and operational efficiencies.

Better CloudWatch Metrics in Honeycomb with the OpenTelemetry Collector

CloudWatch metrics can be a very useful source of information for a number of AWS services that don’t produce telemetry as well as instrumented code. There are also a number of useful metrics for non-web-request based functions, like metrics on concurrent database requests. We use them at Honeycomb to get statistics on load balancers and RDS instances. The Amazon Data Firehose is able to export directly to Honeycomb as well, which makes getting the data into Honeycomb straightforward.

Top 6 EC2 rightsizing recommendations that you can't ignore

Imagine a day at work where you realize that your team’s youngest developer has failed to kill a compute instance; the bill spikes and the budget is breached. Rightsizing recommendations would come to the rescue and play a crucial role in such situations by identifying underutilized, overutilized, or mismanaged resources and suggesting corrective actions.

What Are Fixed Assets and Net Fixed Assets?

Fixed assets are essential for businesses, as they represent long-term assets that contribute to operations and revenue generation. Understanding fixed assets and their net value is crucial for financial reporting, tax compliance, and business valuation. This article will explore the definitions of fixed assets and net fixed assets, their importance, and why businesses should use inventory management software to track them effectively.

Top 10 Changes and Key Improvements in Apache Kafka 4.0.0

In this post, we summarize the major changes in the recently officially released Apache Kafka 4.0.0 version. We will look at the most notable features compared to the previous versions and explain what these changes mean in real production environments and what improvements they can bring to your streaming infrastructure.

5 Shortcomings of Traditional IT CMDBs and Why You Need a Data Center CMDB

Many organizations use a traditional IT CMDB for tracking IT assets, but relying solely on it can create blind spots in data center operations. A Data Center CMDB is purpose-built to address these challenges, offering deeper visibility, real-time insights, and operational efficiency. It is crucial to understand the difference between the two CMDBs and why switching to a Data Center CMDB could result in more optimization and efficiency.

Alertops Vs Jira Service Management: Why pay for ITSM when all you need is on-call and alerting?

When an incident happens—your systems go down, a critical service fails, or your end users start flooding support channels—what you need is fast, reliable alerting and an on-call team that can respond immediately. But if you’re using Jira Service Management (JSM) for this, chances are you’re paying for a lot more than just that.