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Aiven for Apache Kafka® A quick intro to Kafka's five APIs.

Traditional IT service management solutions often fall short when it comes to innovation. While legacy systems are tailor-made to perform one or two functions well today’s service management solutions need to perform beyond these boundaries. Especially, since the pandemic has just ushered in a new era of service management, one that is filled with new challenges.

The CNCF Annual Survey 2021 is in and makes for some very encouraging reading for the future of Kubernetes and its place in the tech landscape. The 2021 survey was the biggest yet, with some 3,829 developers, engineers, architects, and C-level execs in the cloud native space taking part. Here are some of our key takeaways…

Network-layer DDoS attacks are on the rise. In December 2021 alone there were more than all the attacks observed in Q1 and Q2 2021 separately according to data from Console Connect partner Cloudflare.

Enterprise data systems are like busy family households. You see a constant flow of activity to varying degrees from room to room. This activity includes people wandering, opening and closing doors. And then there are other streams constantly flowing through the household- electricity, water, Wi-Fi networks and more. In modern enterprises, the data deluge is a critical issue. While we take the complexity for granted in a household, such is not allowed in a connected enterprise.

StackState has always believed in the importance of open source and open standards, and we’ve demonstrated our commitment through ongoing support of open technologies. From the beginning, StackState supported StatsD and OpenMetrics. Even our agent is open source, designed to help organizations easily onboard our platform and to give them an extensible open way to observe their services. StackState is now proud to announce our next big open source step.

These last two years have been eye opening for many business leaders and board room directors. With the “great resignation” in full effect, the importance of employee experience to overall business success is stronger than ever. In the simplest sense, the happiness and wellbeing of employees can make or break the organization. As a leader in the future of work Nexthink is thrilled to announce our partnership with Qualtrics.