What’s the buzz around AIOps? According to Gartner, “AIOps is the application of machine learning (ML) and data science to IT operations problems.” Though the terms AI and ML conjure images of almost magical capabilities, devoid of connection to the domain in which it’s applied, actually the reality is far different.

We’ve added a new feature to your monitoring settings, Concurrent Monitoring. Now you can choose to have Uptrends test from multiple locations at the exact same time. Not only will you have more data for your analysis, but you also get your alerts quicker leading to faster problem resolution.

When we first launched Performance Matters a year ago, we didn’t just want to surface the performance stories of the big tech companies; our goal was to share and highlight the hard work of thousands of people making software faster. Since then, we’ve delivered over 550 articles, community ideas, tweets, videos, and the occasional comic strip from every corner of the web to your inbox. Here are the 10 most popular articles from all 50 issues of our weekly performance newsletter. Enjoy!

In this article, I’ll try to guide you through some examples and definitions that aim to clarify the Web Vitals landscape from a Next.js perspective. Let’s dive in!

When working with IoT (internet of things) devices one of the key issues is to keep track of the health of all installations. Most of the time, especially with smaller devices, the applications (firmwares) are flashed for a single time during setup and stay untouched at their location of action for a long while.

A few weeks ago, I teamed up with Bartek Plotka, a principal software engineer at Red Hat, for a deep-dive session on Prometheus at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU. We covered a lot of topics, with highlights that included scaling Prometheus, remote-write and metadata. We ended the talk with a quick demo on how to import data from CSV files into Prometheus. I want to use this blog post to provide more insight into the state of backfill in Prometheus.

The “as a service” business model continues to grow rapidly, largely thanks to the rise of cloud computing. “As a service” offerings deliver IT products and technologies such as software, hardware, and data storage to consumers via the Internet, rather than having to install or manage them themselves. Serverless and containers are two such “as a service” technologies that have seen increasing adoption in recent years.