What’s important when building a new business? A good idea is vital, obviously, plus the right people, hard work, experienced investors, and so on. Building trust is important, but probably far down the list. It’s not that trust isn’t important, it’s just likely to be put aside while working on tasks that are perceived as more time-sensitive or of a higher priority, especially those which directly and noticeably impact the bottom line.

Docker is a platform as a service for deploying applications in Docker containers. Containers are software "packages" that bundle together an application's source code with its libraries, configurations, and dependencies, helping software run more consistently and reliably on different machines. To start using Docker containers, you need to be familiar with Docker networking. Below, we'll answer the question: "What is a Docker network host?".

Today, automation has shifted from being a luxury to an absolute necessity, especially within the realm of networks. This shift is driven by the rapid evolution of network technologies, compliance standards, and evolving business needs, placing an increasingly daunting burden on network administrators to manage these tasks manually.

Kubernetes has emerged as a transformative force, reshaping the way organizations develop, deploy, and manage applications. Adoption of containers and Kubernetes has ballooned in the past years, as heralded by everyone from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) itself, to the vendors offering their Kubernetes wares, to the research firms that track trends in enterprise technology adoption.

Observability is often a misunderstood and misused term. It has come to mean nothing and everything at this point. Read more on how Observability can be viewed from the lens of a Radar and a Black Box.

It’s safe to assume that planning ahead is everything to business leaders right now, as the start of 2024 is right around the corner. It’s a strategy-backed priority to get proactive and ahead of challenges that might be ahead of us. As IT’s role in driving business success continues to expand, putting automation to work inside of IT departments and functions today better positions organizations to reach goals and overcome future obstacles.

Datadog is one of the most known tools for monitoring. It’s widely popular for its single pane of glass solution. However, many people have complaints about Datadog. One example of an issue many people have with using Datadog is the number of errors people find when getting started.

Bad news: Configuration drift is going to happen no matter what you do. It’s very easy to miss, caused by some innocuous mistake or patch and buried in paper trails that don’t exist. By the time you’ve found which configurations have drifted, it usually means something’s already going wrong. But here’s the good news: You and your precious configurations don’t have to take it lying down.

Generative AI has already shown its huge potential, but there are many applications that out-of-the-box large language model (LLM) solutions aren’t suitable for. These include enterprise-level applications like summarizing your own internal notes and answering questions about internal data and documents, as well as applications like running queries on your own data to equip the AI with known facts (reducing “hallucinations” and improving outcomes).