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Autoscaling Amazon EKS with Karpenter: A Step-by-Step Guide

Managing resource scaling in EKS clusters can quickly become complex, especially with fluctuating workloads. Traditional autoscaling solutions often require predefined configurations, which can lead to inefficiencies and unnecessary costs. This is where Karpenter comes in—a powerful, open-source project designed to dynamically manage and scale nodes in response to real-time application demands.

Meet Zia: ServiceDesk Plus' AI-powered virtual assistant! [On-premises]

Meet Zia, our own AI-powered virtual assistant designed to improve your service desk efficiency by automating routine tasks in the on-premises version of ServiceDesk Plus. From predicting ticket categories, templates, or approval actions, to automating request closures, Zia (once trained on your past ticket data) can do it all—freeing up valuable time for you and your IT service desk team. Set up the Zia Bot to be the go-to conversational assistant for end users and customize its actions to help users create tickets, request for services, or access self-service articles, reducing the L1 footprint.

What is Retail Media Network and Why is it Important for Marketers?

With a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20% from 2023 to 2032, retail media is growing faster than almost any other form of ad spend. As per the eMarketer report, the industry will receive $140 billion of ad spend by the end of 2024. At this pace, GroupM estimates that the retail media spending will surpass total digital advertising through 2027. One thing is clear - the retail media landscape is changing fast.

Grafana Cloud updates: redesigned dashboard filters, more ways to use RBAC, and more

We consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). In case you missed them, here’s our monthly roundup of the latest and greatest Grafana Cloud updates. You can also read about all the features we add to Grafana Cloud in our What’s New in Grafana Cloud documentation.

Patch Management Best Practices to Improve Compliance and Security

Effective patch management is critical for maintaining a strong security posture. It’s also a difficult task to achieve at scale across various device types. Without automation it’s almost impossible to realize success. Automating patch management across both the operating system and third-party applications can help harden device security and prevent almost 60% of security breaches. Watch our webinar to discover how NinjaOne Patch Management can help you.

Planet of the APIs: A Master Class on Monitoring Transactions in the Wild

APIs are the crucial, hidden heroes for today's connected world, but poor performance or failure can negatively impact user experience. Proper API monitoring and testing are essential. Watch this technical session exploring how proactive API transaction monitoring can fulfill a variety of use cases, e.g. performance, regression, and functional monitoring. Learn best practices for monitoring APIs in real-world scenarios.

How to Generate Azure Documents Specific to Your Team or Project

This video aims to simplify the Azure documentation process for various teams within an organization. The Document Groups feature allows users to create groups specifically for different teams, applications, or departments, making documentation more organized and accessible. With a modified tree view, users can create and manage documentation tailored to their specific team or project needs.

Avoid Rate Limiting with Query Batching

This post is part of our debugging series, where we share tricky challenges and solutions while building Sentry. On March 4th, 2024, the most metal incident happened - INC-666 INC-666, in a nutshell, was where the issue alert rule post-processing step was flooded with more load than it could handle, and alerts that were supposed to have fired did not. This means that Sentry customers might not be receiving alerts if the query that would have triggered the alert is rate-limited.