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Router Monitoring with Grafana

Routers are essential for connecting devices. Routers decide where the internet goes and how fast it should be. Because they play such a crucial role, it's vital to keep an eye on them and make sure they're doing their job well. This act of keeping an eye on routers is what we call "router monitoring." Monitoring routers isn't just about checking how the routers are doing; it's about making sure the whole network works well.

Why Implementing App Security Can Lead To Spiraling Costs

Robust app security is non-negotiable, but the spiraling costs that can come with it are. In the context of application delivery, security plays a pivotal role in maintaining business continuity, protecting sensitive data, and upholding a solid reputation. However, the journey to build a formidable defense at the load balancing and reverse proxy layer can quickly become costly with a few wrong turns. Security is important, but buyers don’t have to break the bank to implement it.

Cortex Initiatives: When scorecards need a deadline

Improving software health, security, and operational maturity are continuous programs—you’re never really “done” maintaining standards of quality. But what if specific parts of that program feel more urgent? Maybe you want to ensure all software has a README file attached, and at least 1 reviewer assigned... by next month? Hey, you gotta start somewhere!

Enrich Kubernetes with New Deployment Tracking Capability

When things go wrong, we’d all love the ability to go back in time, return things to the way they were, and fix whatever issues pop up at the start so they never happen in the first place. This is no different when maintaining complex microservices-based architectures. With any complex system, things are bound to go wrong from time to time.

Cycle vs. Kubernetes: Why I See Organizations Making the Switch

Greetings! My name is Matt Krauser and I’m a Strategic Sales Executive here at Cycle. After participating in nearly a hundred demos of the platform, I wanted to step back from my day to day grind and share a little about my experience thus far. My goal in writing this is to compare Cycle and Kubernetes, discuss the primary pain points I hear from prospects and K8s users on a daily basis, and explain how Cycle can alleviate these challenges.

AI Explainer: What Are Reinforcement Learning 'Rewards'?

In a previous blog post, which was a glossary of terms related to artificial intelligence, I included this brief definition of "reinforcement learning": I expect this definition would prompt many to ask, "What rewards can you give a machine learning agent?" A gold star? Praise? No, the short answer is: numerical values. In reinforcement learning, rewards are crucial for training agents to make decisions that maximize their performance in a given environment.