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What Are SLMs? Small Language Models, Explained

Large language models (LLMs) are AI models with billions of parameters, trained on vast amounts of data. These models are typically flexible and generalized. The volume and distribution of training data determines what kind of knowledge a large language model can demonstrate. By training these large models on a variety of information from all knowledge domains, these models can perform sufficiently well on all tasks.

How To Decide Between Hosting Your Own Status Page Versus Using a Managed One

A status page forms a key part of your incident communication strategy. When it comes to setting up a status page, you have two options: We will examine the pros and cons of each option along these dimensions: For 1, if you choose a self-managed, open-source or custom solution, it's in your control. For a managed solution, you are limited by the provider's feature set. For 2, if you choose a self-managed solution, your team is responsible for the quality of the service.

How MSPs Can Leverage AI to Increase Efficiencies and Increase Margins

The Managed Service Provider (MSP) industry is highly competitive. The growing demand for IT management and support has led to a proliferation of MSPs, ranging from small to established providers. This saturation intensifies pressure on profit margins and heightens expectations for delivering faster, more efficient services. With many MSPs competing for business, companies must find ways to differentiate themselves to attract and retain clients. At ScienceLogic, we know that AI holds the key to success.

Cribl Stream: Up To 47x More Efficient vs OpenTelemetry Collector

Let me set the record straight before anyone accuses me of bias or not being an OpenTelemetry supporter. Cribl loves OpenTelemetry! We’ve written lots of blogs about It; we have vendor-specific OpenTelemetry Destinations (with more to come!), and we support automatic batch parsing for easier data manipulation and re-batching for network transport efficiency of logs, metrics, and traces.

5 Types of Network Topology and How to Choose the Right One

Successful businesses operate like well-oiled machines. Maintaining an effective network is the key to achieving this smooth operation. After all, the right network delivers efficiency and scalability and protects against cybersecurity threats. That said, building a network that meets your unique business needs can be challenging. To do so, you need to pick the correct type of network topography. But what is network topography, and what options are out there? Let's dive in.

Capacity Management: Debugging Exceeded Rate Limits

Snuba, the primary storage and query service for event data that powers Sentry in production, has historically been doing rate limiting under the hood, making it hard to discover and increasing time to resolve customer support requests. This is not something you’d know the specifics of unless you were deep in the Snuba code. But as we triage support questions from customers, one issue tends to pop up: RateLimitExceeded. You got tired of not getting query results.

How to securely connect Grafana to Google BigQuery using Workload Identity Federation

Umesh Pawar is a Senior Cloud Engineer at Searce, and is also the co-organizer of the Grafana and Friends Delhi Group. Umesh has been focused on infrastructure and app modernization, as well as observability solutions including the Grafana LGTM Stack, for the past two years. With the Google BigQuery data source plugin for Grafana, you can easily query and visualize data from BigQuery directly in Grafana.

DBaaS Explained

Managing databases is a real pain point for businesses. It is time-consuming and complicated, and it often distracts resources away from main operations. This is where database as a service (DBaaS) comes into play. DBaaS is revolutionizing the way organizations manage their data—tremendously faster and in a much more secure manner. It is a cloud-native solution that manages your database problems. You no longer have to build and maintain your own database infrastructure.