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InfluxDB 2.0’s Checks and Notifications system is likely the most powerful and flexible system available for creating alerts based on time series data. To get the most out of the system, it is helpful to understand the different pieces and how they fit together. After reading this article, you should be able to create precise alerting using the InfluxDB 2.0 User Interface (UI), as well as be able to extend and customize the system to suit your specific needs.

The retail, banking, telecom, and tech sectors have been trying to prove their love of customer experience (CX) for years. But the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to elevate those vital customer relationships. German shoemaker Adidas is a case in point. In November 2020, it reported strong quarter-over-quarter performance.

We’re proud to announce the general availability of Lightrun Cloud – a completely free and self-service version of the Lightrun platform. We consider Lightrun Cloud to be a major milestone in our constant journey to empower developers with better observability tooling and welcome you to sign up for a free account.

During the next five weeks, our team will work to improve the overall experience of Qovery. We gathered all your feedback (thank you to our wonderful community 🙏), and we decided to make significant changes to make Qovery a better place to deploy and manage your apps. This series will reveal all the changes and features you will get in the next major release of Qovery. Let's go!

Workflow efficiency has never been more important. As the COVID-19 pandemic tightens purse strings across the globe, organizations of all sizes are looking to get more done with less. Workflows are a vital asset to any organization. It has been found that approximately three hours of every eight-hour workday is wasted on irrelevant or personal tasks.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week we explore the rising scope of location intelligence in improving the overall customer experience.

On March 9, 2021, Verkada, a software company that specializes in making security cameras for monitoring physical access control, was subject to a security hack. Hackers gained access to the video feed of at least 15 thousand cameras deployed across various locations and exposed the inner workings of hospitals, clinics, and mental health institutions; banks; police departments; prisons; schools; and companies like Tesla and Cloudflare.

Not all industries are the same in terms of the sensitivity of data they handle. And as you mature as a company, you need to be more careful of how you handle your critical data. With the advent of modern cloud native technologies & Kubernetes, on-prem software is more viable now.

VMware is one of the top virtualization software that allows you to create virtual machines and make the best use of your resources. One of the major focuses of virtualization solutions is to enable optimized use of resources like memory and computing power, but overcommitting your hypervisor towards greedy resource management can lead to severe degradation in the overall performance.

The process of developing software applications has evolved over the years. DevOps has taken over the world, and more and more companies are starting to adopt the DevOps culture in their process. DevOps is a practice of operations where engineering teams work together through the entire software development cycle. It includes functions from development to testing and deployment to production support. Because of that, DevOps has become popular in the industry.