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Introduction to Apache Arrow

A look at what Arrow is, its advantages and how some companies and projects use it. Over the past few decades, using big data sets required businesses to perform increasingly complex analyses. Advancements in query performance, analytics and data storage are largely a result of greater access to memory. Demand, manufacturing process improvements and technological advances all contributed to cheaper memory.

How Technology is Changing the NEMT Industry

Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) serves as a crucial link in the healthcare chain, connecting patients who lack suitable transport options with the medical services they require. It often caters to populations that are most in need-individuals with chronic conditions, seniors, and those without access to public transport. Yet, despite the pivotal role it plays, the NEMT industry has long faced various operational challenges, such as inefficient scheduling and excessively complex billing procedures. These difficulties often strain resources and compromise service quality.

Checkly Expands Monitoring Capabilities with Introduction of Heartbeat Checks

Checkly, the leading Monitoring as Code provider, expanded its platform's monitoring capabilities with the introduction of Heartbeat Checks, also known as CRON monitoring or dead man's switches. Also introduced today, Smart Retries is designed to reduce alert fatigue.

Top tips: 5 ways to enhance your knowledge in AI

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list out ways to explore these trends. This week we’re looking at five ways ways you can build upon the basics and start incorporating AI in your everyday. AI technology is now utilized in some form by almost 77% of devices. Nearly every industry has incorporated, or is trying to incorporate, AI in some way or another.

Heartbeat Monitoring With Checkly

Today’s a big day at Checkly; we’re thrilled to announce that next to Browser and API checks we released a brand new check type to monitor your apps — say “Hello” to Heartbeat checks! In the realm of software, ensuring uninterrupted functionality is critical. While synthetic monitoring helps you discover user-facing problems early, keeping a close eye on the signals coming from your backend can be just as vital.

Update your synonyms in Elasticsearch: Introducing the synonyms API

In a previous post, we talked about synonyms and their importance for providing a great search experience. Using synonyms improves search results by: Search results need to evolve over time. New items go on sale, new trends change what users search for, and new terms become part of a search domain. Our search experience must evolve as well. As part of evolving our search experience, it's important to keep our synonyms updated.

Elastic AI Assistant for Observability

Harness the power of generative AI to turn insights into actions. Powered by the Elasticsearch Relevance Engine™ (ESRE™), Elastic’s AI Assistant (in technical preview for Observability) transforms problem identification and resolution by eliminating manual data chasing across silos to an interactive assistant that delivers accurate and context-aware remediation for SREs.