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The Online Travel Landscape

The travel industry was hit harder than any other industry throughout the pandemic. Frequent changing of rules and restrictions resulted in multiple setbacks. Travel companies had significant difficulties navigating the field and it wasn’t without devastating losses. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows that turnover in travel and tourism businesses declined to 26.0% of February levels, compared with 73.6% in all other industries.

Python MQTT Tutorial: Store IoT Metrics with InfluxDB

MQTT is a standard messaging protocol used for the Internet of Things (IoT) because it requires minimal resources and can be executed by small microcontrollers found in connected devices. IoT devices have a real need for this type of lightweight protocol because it guarantees fast and reliable communication with minimal hardware requirements, keeping power consumption and manufacturing costs low.

[Webinar] Unlock self-service infrastructure monitoring with the Sensu Integration Catalog

Introducing the Sensu Integration Catalog — a marketplace-like UX for simplifying new user onboarding, and deploying production-ready monitoring in a matter of minutes. The Sensu Integration Catalog is also an open marketplace that new and existing users can contribute to by sharing Sensu configurations. Backed by industry-leading monitoring as code solution, Sensu provides new users with a point-and-click interface to get started quickly, while facilitating DevOps and SRE automation best practices.

Kubernetes Logging with Elasticsearch, Fluentd and Kibana

Kubernetes, a Greek word meaning pilot, has found its way into the center stage of modern software engineering. Its in-built observability, monitoring, metrics, and self-healing make it an outstanding toolset out of the box, but its core offering has a glaring problem. The Kubernetes logging challenge is its ephemeral resources disappearing into the ether, and without some 2005-style SSHing into the correct server to find the rolled over log files, you’ll never see the log data again.

Looming 2022 (and Beyond) Network Security Threats

Every year hackers grow in numbers, aggressiveness, organization, and sophistication. And every year there are new attack types and new areas of IT infrastructure that cybercriminals target. 2022 is no different. We are about a third of the way in already and IT pros and security specialists already have their hands full with new attacks and new issues.

When Disaster Strikes: Production Troubleshooting

Tom Granot and myself have had the privilege of Vlad Mihalcea’s online company for a while now. As a result we decided to do a workshop together talking about a lot of the things we learned in the process. This workshop would be pretty informal ad-hoc, just a bunch of guys chatting and showing off what we can do with tooling.

A Pound of Cure - Why Sentry Matters

Benjamin Franklin was a smart dude. Among the many wonderful things he produced was an eternal bit of wisdom - an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. To avoid a bigger problem, spend time early on the things that help you avoid it. That wisdom applies everywhere. Avoid nasty stuff with doctors by exercising and making healthier choices. Avoid getting hit by a car by looking both ways. Avoid sunburn by wearing sunscreen. You get it. So what does this have to do with Sentry? A lot.

Smart, Secure and Sustainable Manufacturing - How Splunk and Google Cloud Are Helping Manufacturers to Skate Where the Puck is Going

* Co-author: Alexander Okl, Sr. Partner Development Manager EMEA | Google Cloud at Splunk “The way we look at manufacturing is this: the strategy should be to skate where the puck is going, not where it is.” - Tim Cook, CEO, Apple Inc.* So where is the puck going for manufacturers in 2022 and beyond?

Guide To APM For Marketers

Image source: Unsplash.com With an increasing number of applications and populated data, monitoring becomes crucial since businesses are challenged to satisfy millions of users simultaneously. In order to detect performance problems in a timely manner, companies require APM tools to collect and process app and user data that is being generated continuously.