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Data Denormalization: Pros, Cons & Techniques for Denormalizing Data

Mar 27, 2023 By Shanika Wickramasinghe In Splunk
The amount of data organizations handle has created the need for faster data access and processing. Data Denormalization is a widely used technique to improve database query performance. This article discusses data normalization, its importance, how it differs from data normalization and denormalization techniques. Importantly, I’ll also look at the pros and cons of this approach.
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Bring Order to On-call Chaos With Splunk Incident Intelligence

Mar 27, 2023 By Annette Sheppard In Splunk
In today’s turbulent times, companies big and small are being pushed to do more with less. Budgets are getting tighter and companies are being pressured to serve customers who demand 24/7 availability from their applications and services. To meet these demands and remain competitive, enterprises are adopting cloud-first strategies and developing applications with microservice architectures.
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Compactor: A Hidden Engine of Database Performance

Mar 27, 2023 By Paul Dix In InfluxData

This article was originally published in InfoWorld and is reposted here with permission. The compactor handles critical post-ingestion and pre-query workloads in the background on a separate server, enabling low latency for data ingestion and high performance for queries. The demand for high volumes of data has increased the need for databases that can handle both data ingestion and querying with the lowest possible latency (aka high performance).

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Why process mining is a game changer for process optimization

Mar 27, 2023 By Mark Abramowitz In ServiceNow

In a rapidly changing economic environment, business growth comes with challenges. As organizations grow, some processes become complex and unwieldy, which makes it hard to be agile. Siloed processes create inefficiency and risk. Optimizing processes through purposeful automation can improve employee productivity, boost efficiency, and accelerate time to value—as well as enable a company to change direction rapidly.

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5 DevOps Skills Every Engineer Should Have In The Cloud Era

Mar 27, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
DevOps doesn’t necessarily look like it used to. Engineers used to build software designed for on-prem hardware; they had a specific methodology for efficient production and distribution schedules; and they didn’t interface very much with non-engineers, if at all. Today, all that has been flipped upside-down. Cloud-era DevOps engineers now must possess wildly different skill sets, and some previously non-negotiable skills have faded into the past.
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Splunk Incident Intelligence Demo

Mar 27, 2023 By Splunk In Splunk
Splunk Incident Intelligence is a team-based incident response solution that connects the right on-call staff to the actionable data they need to diagnose, remediate and restore services quickly. Integrated with the Splunk Observability Cloud portfolio of products, it helps you unify incident response, streamline your on-call and ultimately resolve incidents faster.
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NetFlow: Application metrics | Online help Site24x7

Mar 27, 2023 By Site24x7 In Site24x7
What are application metrics? Each network device runs applications that consume traffic. However, as a network administrator, it is vital to know which applications consume the most bandwidth or if any application takes up more than its fair share of network traffic. How does Site24x7 allow users to view application metrics? Here's where Site24x7 makes things easier for you. In its NetFlow Analyzer, Site24x7 allows you to view the amount of traffic consumed by each application and the percentage of traffic it uses.
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CircleCI Technical Demo + Q&A

Mar 27, 2023 By CircleCI In CircleCI
Join us for a high level tour of CircleCI, and learn how to most effectively utilize the platform’s features and capabilities. Every first and third Wednesday, we’ll be offering a technical demo so you can learn best practices and have all your CircleCI questions answered. Topics Covered: How it works: the nuts and bolts of the product Why CircleCI can make developers’ jobs easier and more rewarding How CircleCI can support your security posture by ensuring organizational policies and guardrails are met Greater visibility by surfacing trends and status across your organization
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Intro to Config Migration

Mar 27, 2023 By CircleCI In CircleCI
In this webinar, you will learn from real life case studies how to avoid migration roadblocks and how CircleCI is set up to support you in implementing a predictable migration strategy. In addition, Brian O’Halloran, Senior Solutions Engineer, and Zan Markan, Senior Developer Advocate, explain how CircleCI is built differently, and how it can adapt to the needs of your software delivery process.
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Streaming conversion of Apache Kafka topics from JSON to Avro with Apache Flink

Mar 27, 2023 By Aiven In Aiven
Pushing data in JSON format to an Apache Kafka topic is very common. However, dealing with messages not having a predefined structure can create some problems, specifically when trying to sink the data via connectors, like the JDBC sink, which require the knowledge of the message structure. Transforming the messages from JSON to AVRO can enforce a schema on messages and allow the usage of a bigger variety of connectors.
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