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This Month in Datadog: August 2021 (Episode 4)

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. For the August 2021 episode, we take you behind the scenes to our NYC office, and sit down with two people from our Product leadership team.

The "Perfect" Log Management Solution Is Invisible

It sounds like a wild claim, considering that billion dollar companies like Splunk, Datadog, New Relic, and Solarwinds are consistently making national headlines, for both good and bad reasons. Observability leaders are anything but invisible, so how can the perfect solution be different? Are they that far off?

Deploying your Gradle Build Cache Node using GCP

This tutorial is a follow-up to TurboCharging your Android Gradle builds using build cache . The key focus of this post is the remote build cache, a build speed acceleration technology that can be implemented for both local and CI builds. This is a technology worth knowing about because: Gradle provides a build cache node available as a Docker image. You can host this image in a number of ways.

Free ITSM webinar from IT expert Vawns Murphy | ITSM in the next normal

Watch this webinar on how to deliver effective services in the next normal, and learn about: The COVID-19 crisis completely changed our world. From an IT perspective, we’ve all had to change our ways of working, and will continue to evolve as everyone adjusts to the next normal. From a service desk and ITSM perspective, this will mean supporting colleagues in different ways, embracing new technology, and having plans in place for future lockdowns and supply-chain issues.

How To Begin The Digital Transformation Process In Marketing And Communications

The year 2020 proved that we need to “adapt” to the unknown, the “new normal” and the constant transformation of what would become a new state of living — one that meant being “displaced” and personally disconnected. If the global Covid-19 pandemic taught us a lesson, it was that we could incorporate new ways of living by self-isolating yet maintaining social integration via a digital presence.

Improving Web Page Load Time

HTTP/2 (originally named HTTP/2.0) was a major revision of the HTTP network protocol used by the World Wide Web published in 2015. Indeed, those in the Citrix/EUC ecosystem may remember Marius Sandbu investigating the benefits of HTTP/2 for NetScaler, Microsoft IIS, and Storefront users back in 2015/6. HTTP/2 was the first new version of HTTP since HTTP/1.1, which itself was standardized in RFC 2068 in 1997.

DataOps: keeping the data flowing with Model-driven Operations

If you’ve ever lived DataOps, you’ll know that it’s a challenge at the best of times. A day in the life of a typical data engineering team involves securing, releasing, debugging and stabilising complex and oftentimes fragile data pipelines. These pipelines can involve many source applications and intermediaries, and troubleshooting them under management pressure when it’s all going wrong is stressful.

Migration to Microservice Architecture: A guide

The software design is perhaps the most important aspect that directly influences the ability to scale up, workload performance, the availability of the software, and the longevity of the software itself. It is also important to understand that traditional monolithic designs are still usable and widely used to fulfil many everyday goals. However, now we have a different problem. With the rapid growth of digital services , virtualization services, and an increasing dependency on cloud-based services.

Live From The Indie Hackers' Backstage

We're back! The Founders recap their respective Hot Vax Summers. They also provide some updates on automating the SOC 2 process, their outbound sales efforts, and the blog. Also, what if you could trade-up your small business to a larger one, similar to trading up from a starter home? Listen hungry, there's lots of food for thought!