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APIs vs Webhooks: The Key Differences, and When to Use Them in Your Web Apps

Aug 8, 2022 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Advancements in technology have led to the evolvement of web development, making it necessary for applications to communicate effectively. To meet the rising demand for communication by modern technology, we have to find the right means through which different technologies can communicate. This is where APIs and Webhooks come into play. APIs and Webhooks play a vital role in enabling the relaying and syncing of data between different applications. That notwithstanding, the two work differently and have been designed to serve different functions.
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Monitor Your AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs with Simplicity

Aug 8, 2022 By Tobias Schmidt In Dashbird

TL;DR: Dashbird launched observability for AWS AppSync. Additionally to AWS Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, ECS, Kinesis, Step Functions, ELB, SNS, RDS, OpenSearch, and HTTP API Gateway you can now get detailed insights and metrics in the Dashbird app for AWS AppSync. Since Facebook released its previously internally used query language GraphQL in 2016, it has seen an outstanding increase in adoptions for all kinds of applications.

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Monitoring smart city IoT devices with Grafana and Grafana Loki: Inside the Fuelics observability stack

Aug 8, 2022 By Lauren Johnson In Grafana

For smart cities of the future, monitoring infrastructure metrics like fuel and water levels is vital to optimizing operations. Fuelics PC designs and deploys battery-operated narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) sensors that monitor fuel, water, waste, and even parking capacity at the edge, then transmit that data to the cloud for easy viewing and monitoring.

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speedscale

Setting up a Multi-Architecture Kubernetes Cluster

Aug 5, 2022 By Kush Mansingh In Speedscale
In the last post we covered the industry shift towards ARM machines for both local and production software engineering. Last time we learned how to create Docker images that would work on multiple architectures for dev machines. Now we want to take this portability and leverage it for cost savings in production. You may be able to transition some of your services into multi-architecture builds.
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solarwinds

What's a Webhook?

Aug 5, 2022 By Joey D'Antoni In SolarWinds
If you’re a developer or site reliability engineer, you might have noticed options to use webhooks in your cloud monitoring or automation settings. And if you have a great deal of experience developing APIs, you probably know what a webhook is. For the rest of the world, a webhook (also known as a web callback or an HTTP push API) is a way for an application to provide other applications with information in real time.
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datadog

Datadog acquires Seekret

Aug 4, 2022 By Idan Gindi In Datadog

APIs are integral to the success of modern enterprises across a wide range of industries, such as finance, logistics, and manufacturing. They not only enable developers to build powerful business solutions by integrating with external applications, but also facilitate communication between internal services. This means that the ability to build reliable, highly-performant APIs—and govern their behavior and performance—is more important than ever.

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The most complete comparison: Pandora FMS Open Source vs Pandora FMS Enterprise

Aug 2, 2022 By Pandora FMS team In Pandora FMS

Pandora FMS Open Source is not a freemium software, it is not bloatware nor shareware (*Wink for those born before the 80s). Pandora FMS is licensed under GPL 2.0 and the first line of code was written in 2004 by Sancho Lerena, the company’s current CEO. At that time, free software was in full swing and MySQL was still an independent company, as was SUN Microsystems.

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