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Welcome to the concluding blog of this mini-series on tapping into the fourth industrial revolution. In Part I, we introduced and assessed the current status in the IT and OT domains. In Part II, we discussed the automation pyramid of modern factories and the need to adopt a more holistic approach toward closing the divide.

Is Telegraf too big for your device? Too many plugins in one binary getting you down? Let me introduce you to the Telegraf custom builder – the new tool for reducing Telegraf’s overall memory and disk footprint. In this blog, we will discuss the “what, why, when” and also how to use the new custom builder.

In today’s business climate, innovation is critical to business success, and IT leaders are pressed to consistently innovate at a pace that the business has come to expect. LogicMonitor is thrilled to feature a Q&A with Melissa Person, the Global Vice President of IT Infrastructure and Operations for PVH, the parent company of iconic fashion brands such as Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Van Heusen, and others.

Kubernetes (K8s) packs a ton of benefits as a container orchestration platform. For instance, K8s is big on automation. This includes automating workload discovery, self-healing, and scaling containerized applications. Yet, Kubernetes isn't always production-ready after a few tweaks. This guide shares crucial Kubernetes best practices you'll want to start using immediately to improve your K8s security, performance, and costs. Let’s get to it!

At Grafana Labs, we understand that clear, informative technical documentation is critical to users’ success, whether they’re just getting started or trying to quickly troubleshoot an issue. That’s why the Documentation and Technical Writing Team at Grafana Labs is pleased to announce the launch of our very first, very own writers’ toolkit.

It’s a wrap! From October 24–28, the Pepperdata team attended KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022, which brought together top engineers and developers from communities centered around Kubernetes and cloud native. With topics ranging from container observability practices to K8s innovations, Pepperdata unveiled the latest offering of its own: Autonomous FinOps for Kubernetes.

The way businesses obtain infrastructure has changed dramatically over the past decade, as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) has taken the place of self-hosted infrastructure for most IT deployments. At the same time, it has become common to build complex infrastructures that blend components from multiple providers – such as two or more public clouds (aka. multicloud infrastructure) or mixing an on-prem data center and a public cloud (aka. hybrid cloud infrastructure).

Are you looking to build a Gatsby website with markdown? This post will take you through the Gatsby development process, from creating the project to deploying it in production on AWS. We will talk about the benefits of using Gatsby and show how to set up markdown, configure Gatsby, and build an article for your demo website.

Sentry recently launched Performance Issues, a feature to help developers discover and fix common performance problems in their projects. We tested this project internally and with alpha users, so when we finally turned it on for all Sentry users, we were delighted (and dismayed) to hear from Carlton Gibson, current Django fellow and great human, that Sentry had.

In the fast-growing Azure space, it is essential to scale your business as Azure scales up. Azure is cost efficient by providing a pay-as-you-go model, but it is still necessary for enterprise users to undergo a Cost Analysis to keep their budget at stack. Let us consider a scenario, you’re a manager in your organization, and your team has been using Azure for the last several months. It has created multiple resources that cost money.