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An application programming interface (API) provides access to the features of a business application, but with the visual elements stripped away. By using APIs, devices like tablets, self-service kiosks, point-of-sale terminals, and robotic sensors can connect up to apps running on servers in a datacenter or in the cloud. Because they give access to the heart of your business applications, it should come as no surprise that there are some APIs that the general public should not have access to.

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This is how the developer story used to go: You do your coding work once, then you ship it to production—only to find out the code (or its dependencies) has security or other vulnerabilities. So, you go back and repeat your work to fix all those issues. But what if that all changed? What if observability were applied before everything was on fire? After all, observability is about understanding systems, which means more than just production.

For a machine to run and store the loaded applications, every processor needs data capacity. Storage is an serious issue if you work in IT since you will have bundles of software packages to run a single application. When RAM is nearly exhausted, the Linux swap function can help you. Using swap space instead of RAM in Linux systems can slow down the system’s performance. At the same time, there are more benefits when swap space is enabled.

Prometheus is among the leading open-source metric-gathering and alerting platforms for managing metrics from microservices architectures. As Prometheus is such a popular choice in the cloud computing landscape today, we will explain how Prometheus metrics can be leveraged for observability.

The use of mobile devices within organizations is steadily increasing, and it’s not slowing down anytime soon. Zippia reported that around 3 out of every 4 employees use their personal cell phones for work. Mobile devices in the workplace can provide many benefits, but can also bring more risks, which is why mobile device management is needed.

At GrafanaCONline 2022, Theia Scientific President, Managing Member, and Lead Developer Chris Field and Volkov Labs founder and CEO Mikhail Volkov — a Grafana expert — delivered a presentation about using Grafana and machine learning for real-time microscopy image analysis. Real-time microscopy image analysis involves capturing images on a microscope using a digital device such as a PC, iPad, or camera.

For any digital service provider, there’s nothing worse than remaining in the dark and responding to network issues only when a customer rings in with a complaint. However, the planning and management needed to remain ahead of such network issues requires consistent monitoring. Network availability monitoring is a crucial aspect of network management and administration today. Here’s a detailed guide on network monitoring and network availability monitoring tools.