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How Hackers Can Hack Your Phone & How To Prevent It

Smartphones have become almost a necessity in this digital era we live in. You can use your phone for banking, online shopping, entertainment, or communicating with your loved ones. Unfortunately, the convenience they provide us also creates a huge disadvantage. Like a treasure chest, our phones hold lots of valuable data and information about us. You will receive a massive blow if someone manages to hack your phone. Therefore, you must learn how to protect your phone from hackers.

The importance of baseline configuration management in a network

In a network environment, configurations are often considered of incalculable value because a small change in a device’s configuration can make or break the entire network infrastructure in minutes. These configurations are divided into two parts: startup and running configurations. In a network device, the first configuration version, by default, is considered the baseline version (a stable and efficient configuration) for both running and startup configurations.

Server Monitoring Best Practices: 9 Tips to Improve Health and Performance

Businesses that have mission-critical applications deployed on servers often have operations teams dedicated to monitoring, maintaining, and ensuring the health and performance of these servers. Having a server monitoring system in place is critical, as well as monitoring the right parameters and following best practices. In this article, I’ll look at the key server monitoring best practices you should incorporate into your operations team’s processes to eliminate downtime.

5 Azure Storage Cost Management Tools You Should Know

Are you using Azure Storage services for your business or organization? Managing Azure Storage costs can be a challenging task for many businesses. Luckily, there are several tools available that can help you manage your Azure Storage costs efficiently. In this article, we will discuss the top 5 Azure Storage cost management tools you should know about.

Gain real-time observability into your software supply chain with the New Relic Log Analytics Integration

JFrog’s new log analytics integration with New Relic brings together powerful observability capabilities to monitor, analyze, and visualize logs and metrics from self-hosted JFrog environments. The integration is free for all tiers of self-hosted JFrog customers and utilizes the powerful, open source log management tool, Fluentd, to collect, process, and surface data in New Relic dashboards.

Time Series Data, Cardinality, and InfluxDB

In the world of databases, cardinality refers to the number of unique sets of data stored in a database. If we drill down a little further, we can think of cardinality as the total number of unique values possible within a table column or database equivalent. When thinking about time series data, we can ask some specific questions about cardinality. What does cardinality look like in practice? When does cardinality become a problem? How do we prevent cardinality issues?

Metrics vs. Logs vs. Traces (vs. Profiles)

In software observability, we often talk about three signal types - metrics, logs, and distributed traces. More recently I've been hearing about profiles as another signal type. In this article I will explain the different observability signals and when to use them in a clear and concise way.