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What Is Container Orchestration? A Newbie-Friendly Guide

A recent Kubernetes Adoption Report showed that 68% of surveyed IT professionals adopted containers more during the pandemic. Among their goals were accelerating deployment cycles, increasing automation, reducing IT costs, and developing and testing artificial intelligence (AI) applications. But, what role does container technology play in this? This guide shares what containers are, how container orchestration works, and more.

How to Resolve Network Failures: It's Not Down But It's Slow

Patience is a virtue," they say. But when it comes to our beloved Internet, our patience wears thin faster than a cheetah on roller skates. We've all experienced it: that frustrating moment when our network connection decides to hit the snooze button and crawl along at a snail's pace. It's not a complete blackout, but it might as well be. We find ourselves stuck in a digital twilight zone, desperately longing for the days when dial-up was just a distant memory.

Migrating from Elastic's Go APM agent to OpenTelemetry Go SDK

As we’ve already shared, Elastic is committed to helping OpenTelemetry (OTel) succeed, which means, in some cases, building distributions of language SDKs. Elastic is strategically standardizing on OTel for observability and security data collection. Additionally, Elastic is committed to working with the OTel community to become the best data collection infrastructure for the observability ecosystem.

Enhancing Team Collaboration: Unveiling the Intuitive Features of SIGNL4

Effective communication lies at the heart of successful teamwork, and SIGNL4 emerges as a powerful tool crafted to elevate collaboration within teams. In this blog post, we will explore five of the often small but all the more intuitive features that distinguish SIGNL4, positioning it as the preferred solution for teams aiming to enhance productivity and streamline communication.

Unifying Lines of Business with Ivanti: Mark Temple from Univ. Of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow’s Mark Temple joins us at ISS 2024 to recap his session on unifying lines of business using Ivanti. Mark explains how having one common platform provides a central repository of service and information, as well as a powerful hub for time-saving automation. Ivanti finds, heals, and protects every device, everywhere – automatically. Whether your team is down the hall or spread around the globe, Ivanti makes it easy and secure for them to do what they do best.

What Makes SQL Toolbelt Essentials a Stand out Tool in the Market - Jeff Taylor | Redgate

Jeff Taylor, Principal Data Consultant at Fulton Analytics, shares what makes SQL Toolbelt Essentials a stand out tool in the market. SQL Toolbelt Essentials helps you and your teams reduce manual, time-consuming work and increase productivity. It's the set of industry-standard tools built by SQL Server industry leaders to standardize SQL development across organizations. Learn more here.

4 Key Reasons to Switch from SaltStack to Puppet

At first, the differences between common configuration management tools might seem marginal. But choosing the right solution for automated configuration management can make a huge difference. Some tools will have features that align with your organization’s goals, while others won’t. The choice between Puppet vs. SaltStack is one such decision, and it’s a little more nuanced than you might think.