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Learn how to set up and manage cron jobs in Windows using Task Scheduler, PowerShell, and Command Prompt to automate tasks like backups and system maintenance.

Explore the essential components, types, and best practices for managing application logs to optimize troubleshooting, performance, and security.

Learn how to use MongoDB logs for better performance, troubleshooting, and optimization with this simple, step-by-step guide.

Parquet outperforms CSV with its columnar format, offering better compression, faster queries, and more efficient storage for large datasets.

It might not be anywhere near springtime yet, but it’s still the perfect time to plant seeds for your brand new (or redesigned, or fine-tuned …) cost management strategy for 2025. To make sure your foundation is solid as you move forward, take advantage of these helpful resources for building and refining your FinOps practice: Think of brushing up on all this knowledge as the business version of hitting the gym for the new year.

At Uptime.com, we’re always looking for ways to empower our users with tools that enhance their ability to monitor website performance and ensure site reliability. That’s why we’re excited to announce a significant update to our Real-Time Analysis page. With this release, we’ve not only transitioned this critical feature to our cutting-edge NextGen infrastructure but also introduced several improvements to boost usability and performance. Here’s what’s new.

The other day I realized that while I write monthly updates on what's new in OnlineOrNot, and keep the changelog updated, I didn't have a yearly review of what was shipped, and what folks could expect from the coming year - so here we are!

Google’s comprehensive AI offering includes Vertex AI, a cloud-based platform for building and deploying AI applications, AI Studio, a web platform for quickly prototyping and testing AI applications, and Gemini, their multimodal model. Gemini offers advanced capabilities in image, code, and text generation and can be used to implement chatbot assistants, perform complex data analysis, generate design assets, and more.

Monitoring cloud costs can be complex. When those costs span more than one cloud service provider (CSP) or SaaS provider, that complexity can make it difficult to understand your overall spending. Datadog Cloud Cost Management (CCM) enables teams to understand cloud costs, but each provider tags its cost data differently. Teams need to understand each provider’s unique cost data model before they can make sense of their costs in each cloud.

BigPanda was honored to be a premier sponsor of Gartner’s IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference (IOCS) in Las Vegas, Nevada. This event allowed us to showcase the latest BigPanda capabilities, connect with industry leaders, and gain valuable insights into the future of IT operations. For those who couldn’t attend, here are the three most impactful insights from my conversations with the customers, vendors, and analysts at IOCS 2024.