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October 2023

So We Shipped an AI Product. Did it Work?

Like many companies, earlier this year we saw an opportunity with LLMs and quickly (but thoughtfully) started building a capability. About a month later, we released Query Assistant to all customers as an experimental feature. We then iterated on it, using data from production to inform a multitude of additional enhancements, and ultimately took Query Assistant out of experimentation and turned it into a core product offering.

The Top 10 OpenSearch Plugins

OpenSearch is a powerful, open-source analytics and search engine that can be utilized to construct custom search solutions for a broad variety of applications, from websites to enterprise-level systems. It enables flexible search and indexing abilities, making it suitable for a range of uses, a great example of this is scalability. OpenSearch is designed for horizontal scalability, enabling organizations to input additional nodes to their cluster as data volumes and query loads increase.

Best practices for creating custom detection rules with Datadog Cloud SIEM

In Part 1 of this series, we talked about some challenges with building sufficient coverage for detecting security threats. We also discussed how telemetry sources like logs are invaluable for detecting potential threats to your environment because they provide crucial details about who is accessing service resources, why they are accessing them, and whether any changes have been made.

How to Use Tech Advancements to Grow a Home Service Business

Home service businesses, ranging from cleaning, and landscaping, to HVAC services, are the unsung heroes that underpin the smooth operation of our homes. These businesses provide essential services, ensuring our homes remain comfortable, functional, and aesthetically pleasing. In recent years, technological advancements have dramatically reshaped the home service industry landscape, fostering efficiency, scalability, and improved customer service.

6 Things to Keep in Mind When Refurbishing Your Office

Planning a makeover for your workspace? Office refurbishment can be both an exciting and daunting task. If done right, it can significantly boost productivity and morale. From layout design to furniture choices, here are some key points to consider, to ensure your office refurbishment journey is smooth and rewarding. Buckle up as we guide you through this transformative process!

Our uptime check can now verify the absence of a string

The most popular check that Oh Dear offers is, without a doubt, our uptime check. It's enabled for almost every site we monitor. By default, this check will notify you when your site returns a non-2xx response, but you can greatly customize that behavior. You can check if the response has certain headers, if the response contains a particular string, and more! Some of our users requested a new behavior: checking the absence of a string on the response.

Fighting the Good Fight for a Resilient Digital Future

This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, cybercriminals have far too much to celebrate. Attacks are rising in sophistication and brazenness, and no company or organization is immune. We could panic. Or we could lock arms, fight the good fight and put customers first. I vote for the latter.

Azure File Storage Best Practices

Azure File Share is a cutting-edge service offered by Microsoft’s Azure platform. This robust solution allows seamless integration of serverless file sharing capabilities accessible through industry-leading protocols such as SMB, NFS, and Azure Files REST API. When effectively utilized, Azure File Share can drastically improve the file-sharing experience for cloud-based and on-premises deployments. In the realm of Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS, it has demonstrated unparalleled benefits.

Free Preview Environments For Open-Source Projects

We at Qovery are excited to offer our Preview Environments for free to all open-source projects. A Preview Environment is like a sandbox where developers can see how changes to the code will work before these changes are final. This is great for projects where many parts, like the backend, frontend, and databases, must talk to each other.