How many Marvel movies’ worth of Internet traffic do 28,000 conference goers create during a five-day Cisco Live event? There’s a Grafana dashboard for that. Cisco Live is the network industry’s largest annual event, delivering education and inspiration to technology innovators worldwide with a week’s worth of programming keynotes, product announcements, entertainment, and more.
Panenco is a Product as a Service studio with more than 50 software development, product management, data science, design, and marketing experts building and hosting applications spanning multiple industries, including healthcare, fintech and education. For them, customer success isn’t just a business function, teams focus heavily on providing a fast, frictionless app experience.
As a developer, Python for me is a heavy-lifting and versatile language. I’ve used it for building APIs, internet of things projects, file and data conversions, machine learning and (of course) web development. Like with any modern, commonly used language, the functionality behind the application is only as good as the infrastructure that it is deployed onto.
The two words that IT and MSP teams never want to hear are “data loss.” According to Business Partner Magazine’s article on data backup, “94% of companies that fail to recover from a major data loss do not survive, and 43% of companies never resume their operation after a major data loss event.” To prevent these disasters from occurring, IT & MSP teams rely on data protection.
When talking about managing web applications and the services they provide, the term “API gateway” is often thrown around, but what does it mean? In order to unpack how a gateway functions, we first need to understand what an API is.
More than 500,000 citizens of the working-class district of Povo do Acre, located in the northwest of Brazil, have an Internet connection thanks to the collaboration of the Spanish company Pandora FMS.
MQTT is a machine-to-machine communication protocol. Devices publish messages to a broker under specific topics, and other devices subscribe to those topics to receive information. It’s popular because it doesn’t take up a lot of bandwidth, so IoT devices with limited network connectivity can use it. MQTT works because of brokers. Each device sending and receiving data can communicate with potentially millions of other devices while only connecting to one broker.
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week we’re exploring the ‘hidden’ environmental impact of our data-driven world.
