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Containers have long been used in the transportation industry. Cranes pick up containers and shift them onto trucks and ships for transportation. Container technology is handled in a similar vein in the software world. A container is a new and efficient way of deploying applications. A container is a lightweight unit of software that includes application code and all its dependencies such as binary code, libraries, and configuration files for easy deployment across different computing environments.

In my work as a technical evangelist at Cribl, I regularly talk to companies seeing annual data growth of 45%, which is unsustainable given current data practices. How do you cost effectively manage this flood of data while generating business value from critical data assets?

Observability is a measure of how well we are able to infer the internal state of our application from its external outputs. It’s an important measure because it indirectly tells us how well we’d be able to troubleshoot problems that will inevitably arise in production. It’s been one of the hottest buzzwords in the cloud space for the last 5 years and the marketplace is swamped with observability vendors. Different tools employ different methodologies for collecting data.

Last week, we were thrilled to launch a new website overview dashboard in RapidSpike: the Third Party Management Dashboard.

Big data and its capabilities are becoming more prevalent across various sectors and market segments. It gives businesses and entrepreneurs access to previously unheard-of potential for process optimization, service quality improvements, and conversion rate growth. Big data was once a cutting-edge technology for extremely complicated work environments, but nowadays, it's getting increasingly popular in commercial sectors. Big data is large, varied information sets that are expanding exponentially.