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What Are the Various Benefits of Automation in Manufacturing?

Every manufacturing unit thinks of maximizing its profits, which can be done by enhancing its production or reducing expenses. Asset management software can be helpful in increasing return on investment (ROI). To increase productivity, one must follow a rigid process of good management in the whole system. Automation plays a very important role in this.

Get started with Grafana OnCall and Terraform

Managing on-call schedules and escalation chains, especially across many teams, can get cumbersome and error prone. This can be especially difficult without as-code workflows. Here on the Grafana OnCall team, we’re focused on making Grafana OnCall as easy to use as possible. We want to make it easier to reduce errors with your on-call schedules, create schedule and escalation templates quickly, and fit on-call management into your existing as-code patterns.

What to Look for in a Colocation Data Center

As the costs of managing and maintaining owner-operated data centers rise, enterprises are reconsidering their infrastructure and attempting to minimize on-premises data center space. Colocation data center providers are an attractive and cost-effective solution, offering physical space as well as power, cooling, network, and security services for their customers.

9 Cloud Cost Mistakes You Don't Know You're Making

When you’re operating in the cloud, making the right decisions is not always easy because there’s a lot of ground to cover, especially with regard to cost. The elastic nature of cloud infrastructure means your costs could quickly spiral out of control if you don’t have guardrails in place to help keep costs down. Properly managing your cloud costs is important, especially for SaaS companies. Cloud spend impacts your COGS, which in turn affects revenue and valuation.

Elastic Observability helps monitor your Azure workloads on the new Arm-based VMs

Microsoft Azure’s recently launched new Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) feature the Ampere Altra Arm-based processor. These new VMs are engineered to efficiently run horizontally scalable workloads such as web servers, application servers, and open source databases. They deliver excellent price-performance and represent an important addition to Microsoft Azure's portfolio of instance types.

Writing a Custom Sort Plugin for Solr

OK, so you want to sort your documents by something that can’t be implemented with Solr’s built-in functions. This calls for a custom function, which you can implement through your own ValueSourceParser. To address the elephant in the room, Elasticsearch and OpenSearch have script sorting. This is easier to implement, but not as close to Lucene. Though of course you can use a native script as well.

Kubernetes Upgrades at LogicMonitor

Managing Kubernetes version upgrades can be a formidable undertaking. API versions are graduated, new features are added and existing behaviors are deprecated. Version upgrades may also impact applications needed by the Kubernetes platform; affecting services like pod networking or DNS resolution. At LogicMonitor, we ensure our Kubernetes version upgrades are successful through a process designed to instill collaboration and due diligence in a repeatable fashion.

Role Of Communication In Increasing Operational Efficiency

Have you ever been in a job situation where you have no idea what to do? You look at the others, and they appear to be just as confused as you are, and you realize that no one else has any clue about what they should be doing either. If you run a business, you quickly learn that good communication is paramount and one of the primary keys to maintaining a productive business. Communication affects every single aspect of your workplace, especially when it comes to your place of operations.