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In our previous blog, we covered the importance of establishing a Digital first as a discipline. Once the key outcomes of the project are identified, we often stumble upon numerous challenges – the leaders should filter out the associated challenges and risks, to mitigate them and balance out the desired state benefits versus the current state benefits. This will provide better visibility for the teams involved in the transformational process.

We have seen the importance of adopting a Digital first engineering approach, the challenges faced by leaders, and the role of strategies in our previous blogs. Another factor that plays a significant role in the success of any Digital first initiative is having a proper metric system. These huge transformational processes involve a lot of time, resources, and cost - if these are not managed and measured in a timely fashion, enterprises can end up getting a hit on their bottom line.

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a framework of best practices for providing various information technology (IT) services, including service and asset management. The main goal of ITIL is to improve the quality and efficiency of IT service management.

In the late 1960s, there was a rock band called Ten Years After and I liked the name the first I heard about them. I wanted to use "Splunk and the Financial Services Industry: Ten Years After" as the title of this blog entry, but it’s been more than ten years since I wrote the first Splunk Blogs entry on Splunk and the Financial Services Industry. As you can tell, a lot has changed since then and more than a decade is an internet lifetime in technology.

Dexcom is more than a business. For its customers, the organization’s innovative continuous glucose monitoring platform provides them with a way to take control of their health and better manage their diabetes. Given the critical services Dexcom provides to its customers, their IT Operations teams have highly specific needs when it comes to the many tools and platforms, they rely on to keep their organization’s services up and running.

One of the most important aspects of a good experience in the field of IT is organization. Regardless of the size of your IT practice, keeping everything neat, tidy, and easy to understand is something that will surely save everybody a lot of time and effort. A good way of ensuring this is by understanding how to properly name your assets.

What if Aiven doesn’t provide the Apache Kafka® connector you want? Read on to learn how to use an external connector, to gather Twitter messages into Kafka.

It is always helpful to know which version you are running of some software, even more so when running development versions. So it’s good if software is able to tell you its version, for example by calling it with --version. For release versions, maintaining this information by hand is feasible, but in order for development versions to show exact revision information, you need some automation, otherwise updating it will be forgotten, leaving you with wrong information.