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Between your app server and your customer's fingertips, your mobile application or website's performance depends on many factors. Often, what you give may not be what the customer gets, as several things can get in the way, such as bottlenecks, server performance issues, network woes, and un-optimized code. All these factors prevent your customers from experiencing fluid, fast, and functional apps and websites as intended.

In this blog series we’ll be examining the Five Myths of Apache Spark Optimization. (Stay tuned for the entire series!) If you’ve missed Myth #1, check it out here. The second myth examines another common assumption of many Spark practitioners: Cluster Autoscaling stops applications from wasting resources.

It’s no secret. Competition is more than fierce in SaaS; it’s also bitter. The competition will enter any market, area, and idea as long as there’s money to fund it — even if the margins are close to zero. Having an observability tool like New Relic or New Relic alternatives can be the key to protecting your margins. A few hours of service disruption, a software bug, or unoptimized code deployment can significantly impact customer experience.

Congratulations to Dave Link, CEO and founder of ScienceLogic for being named a 2024 MeriTalk Cyber Defender! Each year, MeriTalk celebrates outstanding leadership in cyber innovation within the federal government IT community. The prestigious Cyber Defenders Awards honor government and industry individuals who are at the forefront of safeguarding government systems from complex cyber-attacks, leading cyber modernization progress, and driving our nation’s cybersecurity.

InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated provides fully-managed InfluxDB v3 clusters that power enterprise-grade workloads on a scalable infrastructure dedicated to your workload and your workload alone. As a fully-managed service, InfluxData takes the infrastructure hassle off your plate by monitoring and scaling your cluster when necessary. Until recently, cluster health-related metrics were only available to internal InfluxData support staff.

Having telemetry is all well and good—amazing, in fact. It’s easy to do: add some OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation libraries to your stack and they’ll fill your disks with data pretty quickly. However, having good telemetry data—data that’s curated into being useful—is something that is both cost-effective and represents good value.