The cognitive bias known as the streetlight effect describes our desire as humans to look for clues where it’s easiest to search, regardless of whether that’s where the answers are. For decades in the software industry, we’ve focused on testing our applications under the reassuring streetlight of GitOps. It made sense in theory: wait for changes to the codebase made by engineers, then trigger a re-test of your code. If your tests pass, you’re good to go.
This week, NVIDIA unveiled what they are calling “the world’s most powerful GPU for supercharging AI and HPC workloads,” the H200 Tensor Core GPU. There is much hype around the H200 as it is the first GPU with HBM3e. The larger and faster memory will further enable generative AI, large language models, and advance scientific computing for HPC workloads. Read the NVIDIA press release.
At AppSignal, our pricing revolves around the number of requests we process for a customer and the number of buckets of logging data we store. After their free trial, customers are offered the most fitting plan for them based on their usage in the previous 30 days. About nine years ago, we noticed that many customers were slowly growing their number of requests, but we kept charging them for the plan they started on.
We’re excited to share a recent enhancement made to the Elastic Support Hub: it’s now powered by semantic search! But before we go into more detail on the changes we made to the Elastic® Support Hub and its impact on our customers, it's important that we take a moment to explain the concept of semantic search. At its core, semantic search is a method of search that uses AI to return more relevant search results. Take a look at this quick video explaining the concept.
PagerDuty’s 2023 Holiday Shopping Report: Online shopping will be about the same as last year — top frustrations include poor digital experiences, security, shipping, and tracking issues.
Vulnerability management is a critical aspect of a cybersecurity strategy. It refers to the systematic and ongoing process of identifying, classifying, prioritizing, and addressing security vulnerabilities in a network environment. This proactive approach to network security aims to minimize the risk of exploitation by attackers. Vulnerability management is about staying one step ahead of potential threats.