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The State of Database Landscape Survey | Redgate

The database landscape is constantly evolving, driven by major technologies like Artificial Intelligence that are now widely available. Which new technologies and trends are most important for you, and how will these impact your career trajectory? Join our latest survey to explore the current hot topics and enter our prize draw for the chance to win a $250 Amazon voucher.

How To Choose The Right Virtualization Monitoring Software For Your Entire IT Stack - Part 1

With many virtualization monitoring software options in the market, which is the right one for your entire IT stack? In this post, we’ll explore one of the crucial aspects of making this decision: the choice between agent-based, agentless, and hybrid monitoring solutions. Each approach has its own set of advantages and trade-offs, making it essential to understand which one aligns best with your organization’s needs.

Guide to Monitoring Kubernetes Using a Telegraf Daemonset

Kubernetes is used in production-level applications and software services to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications - ensuring high availability and consistent performance across distributed systems. It enhances reliability through features like load balancing, self-healing, and rolling updates, enabling efficient resource utilization and orchestration in cloud-native and hybrid environments.

Voice Solutions for Regional & Rural Service Providers

Being a voice service provider is challenging. Many regional and rural service providers are constrained by legacy TDM networks that are expensive to maintain, are well into their late lifecycles, are becoming a burden to administer and manage due to resource shortages and therefore pose risks to their business vitality. Continuing changes are experienced with vendors and products that seemingly constantly enter and exit the market. Ribbon offers a comprehensive transformation portfolio tailored to regional and rural providers.

The risks - and rewards - of using production data for testing

Data, and the way enterprises use data in areas like development and testing, has not traditionally been a focus for business leaders but that’s now changing. Data is more varied and complicated than ever before, for example, with enterprises using two or more different database platforms – and 40% using four or more. It’s also spread wider and further, with enterprises hosting their databases in a combination of cloud and on-premises infrastructures.

An Introduction to Last9 Levitate

Levitate is a high-cardinality monitoring tool and a telemetry data warehouse with support for metrics, events, logs, and traces. Prometheus and OpenTelemetry compatibility makes it easy to get started with a hassle-free monitoring journey, be it starting from scratch or even swapping out your existing monitoring tool. Used by engineering teams worldwide at companies like Replit, Disney+ Hotsar, Clevertap, Probo, Quickwork, Axio, and more.

How Stress Affects Our Learning Abilities in Incidents (And What To Do About It)

While retrospectives provide a valuable pathway for learning outside of the flow of work, we also want learning to happen during an incident or unexpected event as it unfolds. This can be challenging due to the negative impact of stress on our ability to learn and navigate difficult situations. In this article, we’ll dig into how stress inhibits our ability to learn and what we can do about it.