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Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) vs. Load Balancers: What's The Difference?

Load balancers and content delivery networks (CDNs) are critical tools for delivering modern, cloud-native applications. They play essential roles in ensuring the smooth flow of data between applications and end-users. If you don’t have both a load balancer and a CDN in place, you’re probably in a poor position to guarantee the uptime of your application across a wide geographic area. That does not mean, however, that load balancers and CDNs do the same thing.

Cribl Named as a Big Data Emerging Vendor by CRN

Although we’ve encouraged employees to take plenty of time off this summer to relax, recharge, and enjoy time with family, Cribl certainly hasn’t been on a summer holiday as a company. After the big announcement in late May with Cribl Search and our Series D funding round, we moved right into the announcement of Cribl Stream 3.5, Cribl Edge 3.5, massive upgrades to Cribl.Cloud, and the launch of our Cribl Certified Observability Program.

How to monitor Hadoop with OpenTelemetry

We are back with a simplified configuration for another critical open-source component, Hadoop. Monitoring Hadoop applications helps to ensure that the data sets are distributed as expected across the cluster. Although Hadoop is considered to be very resilient to network mishaps, monitoring Hadoop clusters is inevitable. Hadoop is monitored using the JMX receiver. The configuration detailed in this post uses observIQ’s distribution of the OpenTelemetry collector.

3 Reasons Why You Should Have a Service Focus on Microsoft Teams

Written by Nick Cavalancia, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft MVP, & CEO of Conversational Geek In a world of Managed IT Service Providers that all offer some form of services around Microsoft 365, there’s a compelling case to be made for your business to be centering in on Microsoft Teams.

Getting Started With Observability on Kubernetes | Webinar with Ricardo Santos and Andreas Prins

Monitoring has traditionally been a way for IT operations to gain insight into the availability and performance of its systems. However, today IT organizations require more than just monitoring. They need a deeper and more precise understanding of what is happening across their IT environment. This is challenging, as infrastructure and applications span multiple environments and are more dynamic, distributed and have to support more ongoing change than ever before.