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I have been implementing a couple of features lately that allow users to download files. During this process, I have visited various namespaces and possibilities with ASP.NET Core. In an attempt not to forget what I have learned and in the hope that this knowledge can be used by others, here is a blog post about downloading files from ASP.NET Core 😊 This post will use an ASP.NET Core MVC application as an example since that is what I am using.

Have you ever tried to find a bug in a multi-layered architecture? Although this might sound like a simple enough task, it can quickly become a nightmare if the system doesn’t have proper monitoring. And the more distributed your system is, the more complex it becomes to analyze the root cause of a problem. That’s precisely why observability is key in distributed systems. Observability can be thought of as the advanced version of application monitoring.

A goal of open-source observability is unifying several different signals to provide the observability everyone wants. It’s always interesting to speak to people on this journey, and how they try to provide it through open-source projects, and the challenges they can face. I was thrilled to host Pranay Prateek on the most recent episode of the OpenObservability Talks podcast.

Last week (7th September 2022) I spotted a post from EUC and Cloud Veteran Marius Sandu alerting his professional and social media networks to an outage of Azure Front Door that in turn meant a significant number of Azure services and resources were unavailable.

Recent, high-profile cybersecurity exploits, such as Sun Burst and Log4j, demonstrate that every enterprise is only a stone’s throw from a software vulnerability. This becomes especially critical when security is breached in a network monitoring component that has privileged access to core enterprise systems. In the case of Sun Burst, a well-known monitoring software provider made international headlines.

Whether you’re an e-commerce company, a SaaS provider, or a content publisher, understanding the performance of your website is important to everyone on the team—not just the developers. Performance is a huge part of the user experience and directly tied to how well your website achieves its goals. But web performance is often measured in very technical terms, like Largest Contentful Paint, that cause most business folk’s eyes to glaze over.

The first level of the Observability Maturity Model, Monitoring, is not new to IT. But as reliable IT system operation becomes more and more critical, the importance of monitoring continues to increase. A monitor tracks a specific parameter of an individual component in the system to make sure it stays within an acceptable range; if the value moves out of the range, the monitor triggers an action, such as an alert, state change or warning.

On September 13, 2022, IBM announced the latest IBM LinuxONE Emperor 4, a highly secured and sustainable Linux-based enterprise server designed for companies of all sizes. Sysdig with IBM LinuxONE provides unified visibility across workloads and cloud infrastructure through a single cloud-native monitoring and security platform.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and associated technologies, such as machine learning and natural language processing (NLP), are used for daily IT operations tasks and activities. AIOps supports IT Ops, DevOps, and SRE teams working smarter and faster to identify digital-service issues earlier and address them quickly, preventing disruptions to business operations and customers. This is accomplished through algorithmic analysis of IT data and Observability telemetry.

As we enter a critical period in the effort to mitigate climate change, organizations are facing mounting regulatory pressure—along with a biological imperative—to reduce their carbon footprint. And for those that maintain significant on-prem infrastructure, energy costs associated with operating hardware components can significantly affect their bottom line.