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Back in the 1970s when bell bottoms roamed the world and 8-tracks reigned supreme, the Eagles warned us that Hotel California was a place where you could “checkout anytime you like, but you can never leave.” Well, on the 21st century e-commerce landscape there is a similar dilemma facing customers who want to buy everything from gardening equipment to a new car: they can try to checkout anytime they like, but they can never buy.

If all companies are software companies, all companies need better Observability to understand how performative their software is.

As someone who admittedly gets bored easily, one of my favorite things about working for a company like Cribl is the huge amount of technologies in our ecosystem I get exposure to. Over time, I also get to observe trends in the market – it’s always so cool to see big upswings in adoption for various platforms and tech. One such trend I’ve observed over the last year is a noticeable uptake and presence in the market of Google Chronicle.

The Elastic APM Java Agent automatically tracks many metrics, including those that are generated through Micrometer or the OpenTelemetry Metrics API. So if your application (or the libraries it includes) already exposes metrics from one of those APIs, installing the Elastic APM Java Agent is the only step required to capture them. You'll be able to visualize and configure thresholds, alerts, and anomaly detection — and anything else you want to use them for!

When relying on data from external services, it's important for the retrieval to be accurate and timely. While we may not control how efficiently an external API responds to our requests, we can control how and when we request data from that API. However, over time as your application and the API that serves it change, once efficient requests may turn into bottlenecks.

The public cloud market is expected to grow significantly in 2023, and it’s no surprise. Gartner forecasts that end-user spending on public cloud services will rise by 21.7% to a total of $597.3 billion in 2023, up from $491 billion in 2022!

In today's digital landscape, where websites and applications are expected to handle increasing traffic loads, ensuring optimal performance and reliability is of paramount importance. Load balancing, a technique used to distribute incoming network traffic across multiple servers, plays a critical role in achieving these goals. Load balancers which are the key components in this process, help optimize resource utilization, enhance the scalability functions, and improve overall system efficiency.

Catchpoint recently celebrated a significant milestone, our first patent. The patent protects the work of its inventors, Staff Engineers Alessandro Improta and Luca Sani, VP of Engineering Sergey Katsev, and Chief Product and Technology Officer Dritan Suljoti.

Grafana is a rich platform for data visualization, giving you full control over how your data should be visualized. However, this flexibility and freedom comes with some challenges from a security perspective — challenges that need to be solved to protect the data in Grafana. For years, cross-site scripting (XSS) has been among the most common web application security vulnerabilities.