Grafana is long known as a leading open source platform for those needing beautifully rich, composable operational dashboards. The notion of being able to connect disparate data sources to Grafana for improved monitoring of infrastructure, log analytics, and overall better operational efficiency is an increasingly alluring prospect for those in fintech, ecommerce, and other industrial sectors.

The countdown has begun. No, not for the excitement of New Year’s Eve festivities nor for an awe-inspiring space launch. We’re talking about Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the annual mad rush of frantic Christmas shoppers looking for deals after Thanksgiving. In 2021 on Black Friday, consumers spent $109.8 billion online, up 11.9% compared to 2020. Shoppers spent another $10.7 billion on Cyber Monday, 1.4% down from $10.8 billion in 2020.

If you are looking to improve the quality of your website and offer a superior user experience, then you are likely looking to improve SEO by whatever technologies are available to accomplish that goal. Google has been pushing out user-centric improvements — eliminating keyword stuffing, making page load time a ranking factor, and so on — meant to make navigating your website easier and improve SEO.

Security is one word that is at the tip of everyone’s tongue when it comes to ensuring that web browsers are up to date. In August 2022, after zero day vulnerability CVE-2022-2852 was identified as a critical risk, Google issued a new set of Chrome security updates and tech-industry folks carried on with business as usual. In general, security vulnerabilities of all types are an all-too-common game of Whac-A-Mole. Once a security flaw is discovered and patched, another pops up to take its place.