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IT environments can produce billions of log events each day from a variety of hosts and applications. Collecting this data can be costly, often resulting in increased network overhead from processing inefficiencies and inconsistent ingestion during major system events. Google Cloud Dataflow is a serverless, fully managed framework that enables you to automate and autoscale data processing.

Our guide to the elements that make up a network infrastructure.

What is continuous delivery? And what are the benefits of the continuous delivery pipeline? This strategy has evolved in a world where platform engineering is on the rise and more and more organizations rely on automation through code to achieve their goals. Times have changed. Most organizations now rely on continuous delivery as an essential part of their development pipelines.

This is part three in a series where I learn OpenTelemetry (OTEL) from scratch. If you haven't yet seen them yet, part 1 is about setting up auto-instrumented tracing for Node.js and part 2 is where I initially implemented the OTEL collector. Today we are going to begin experimenting with sampling. We need to sample traces because we capture so much data! It would be impractical to process and store it all (in most cases).

As the use of SD-WAN continues to expand, benefits and challenges may seem to be proliferating in equal measure as well. In this post, we look at some of the advantages and obstacles presented by SD-WAN, and we detail how DX NetOps by Broadcom delivers the visibility teams need to monitor and manage their SD-WAN and legacy network environments.

In the digital landscape of 2023, transparency and communication are pivotal pillars for building and maintaining trust with your user base. As your online operations expand, so does the imperative for clear, transparent, and proactive incident communication. A well-designed status page not only keeps your users informed during downtimes or technical issues but also reinforces your brand’s commitment to openness and quality service.

As businesses become more digitized, IT leaders must consider the ability of the network to transform business operations in every functional area. Many organizations are already doing this today, demonstrating best practices in how the network can be an innovation partner in marketing, service delivery, customer service, and logistics, among many other areas. However, those who rest on their laurels today may find themselves playing catchup in the not-so-distant future.

Managing modern networks means taking on the complexity of downtime, config errors, and vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit. Learn how BGP Flow Specification (Flowspec) can help to mitigate DDoS attacks through disseminating traffic flow specification rules throughout a network.

Availability is the amount of time a device, service or other piece of IT infrastructure is usable — or if it’s available at all. Because availability, or system availability, identifies whether a system is operating normally and how effectively it can recover from a crash, attack or some other type of failure, availability is considered one of the most essential metrics in information technology management. It is a constant concern.