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Monitor your T2A-powered GKE workloads with Datadog

Arm processors have become increasingly popular in recent years, providing energy-efficient, cost-effective processing power to both mobile and cloud computing ecosystems. As a part of this growth, more and more organizations are choosing to leverage the many benefits of Arm-based architectures for their containerized workloads. Today, Google Cloud announced its Arm-based Tau T2A virtual machines (VMs), which you can also use to run workloads in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

The Role of Middleware in Distributed Systems

In distributed systems, middleware is a software component that provides services between two or more applications and can be used by them. Middleware can be thought of as an application that sits between two separate applications and provides service to both. In this article, we will see a role of middleware in distributed systems.

We've raised $34M to help organisations be resilient in the face of failure

TL;DR: We’ve raised $34M to bring increased resilience to organisations around the world. With this latest round of investment we’re expanding internationally in the US, accelerating our product plans, and growing our amazing team 🎉 As technology becomes more complicated and runs an ever greater part of our lives, failure becomes more inevitable, and more costly.

The Leading Tools Compatible With OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry (also known as OTel) is a popular open-source framework used to generate telemetry data for traces, metrics, events and logs. In this guide, we are going to cover the best observability and application performance management tools that can be used alongside OpenTelemetry to transform telemetry data into responsive reporting dashboards.

Lars Rossen on What to Expect From IT4IT 3.0

IT4IT was created as a framework for IT service management, and has established itself as an alternative — or perhaps complementary? — standard to the widely acclaimed ITIL. But since it's been around for a decade now, it's about to change. Lars Rossen — one of the creators of the first version of the IT4IT Reference Architecture, which formed the basis for the standard — told us first-hand what to expect from IT4IT 3.0 on Episode 9 of Ticket Volume podcast.

What is a Neural Network (and How Does it Train Itself)?

You’ve probably heard about neural networks being hailed as the next big step in technological advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). Beyond its often exaggerated depiction in fiction and media, neural networks have slowly but steadily become an invaluable asset in the IT world. It is under constant research in data science and computer science.

What is QoS

Quality of Service (QoS) uses methods or technologies on networks to control traffic and ensure the performance of critical applications with limited network capacity. It enables organizations to adjust their overall network traffic by prioritizing specific high-performance applications. Your internet connection is like a highway where different types of vehicles travel to reach their destination. Your car drivers, truckers, average commuters, and emergency services vehicles all share the same lanes.

What Are the Various Plant Maintenance Types & Objectives?

Every organization is equipped with lots of assets and all organizations rely on some type of maintenance. Organizations that are into production and manufacturing such as oil & gas, electronics, and pharma heavily rely on maintenance. A manufacturing unit utilizes plant maintenance! Don’t know what exactly plant maintenance is? In this blog, we will know about plant maintenance Types & their objectives. So, let's begin with basic definitions first.

12 SaaS Renewal Best Practices To Ensure Profitability

This is no secret to you. It costs up to seven times more to attract a new customer than to keep an existing one. Upselling an existing customer is also easier than upselling to a new one. So, keeping customers will increase your revenue and profitability. Not to mention, current customers are likely to buy more goods and services than new ones. But that's not all. The longer you keep a customer, the higher their Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) grows, thus maximizing your return on investment.

Prime Day's High Traffic Survival Guide

Did you, along with billions of others around the world, snag some deals yesterday at the start of Amazon’s Prime Day 2022? It's no secret that July 12-13th marks Amazon’s two-day online shopping event. There are no hard stats yet on this year's numbers, but according to Influencer Marketing Hub, the world’s largest online retailer generated record sales of about $11.2 billion during their 2021 Prime Day, a 7.6% increase from 2020.