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This article predominantly talks about testing as a distinct career option in data science and machine learning (ML). It gives a brief on testing workflows and process. It also depicts the expertise and top-level skills a tester needs to possess in order to test a ML application.

A big part of modern software development involves working with APIs. While using 3rd party services can speed up development, moving data around and gluing things together can be pretty dull. Luckily, there are a growing number of tools that help deal with the boring stuff so you can focus on more interesting things. One of these tools is Pipedream.

After the long process of designing and creating your website, your journey in its development has only started. Now you need to move forward, watching, analyzing and fixing any problems that may occur (and probably will) that could ruin your customer’s website experience. But how can you learn if there’s anything that’s wrong with your website? How can you measure user experience and learn where improvements are needed? Well, we have got an answer for you!

In this roundup of the best dashboards powered by the Prometheus metrics monitoring system, we wanted to show you some of the best use cases for this ever-popular solution for time series metrics alerting.

Why should only Dashboard Studio users get all the fun new features on Splunk Mobile and Splunk TV? To spread the cheer this new year, we brought the latest and greatest Mobile and TV features to IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) Glass Tables, so that you can view your ITSI data anywhere at any time!

One of the most challenging and rewarding things I do as a Principal Software Engineer in our Splunk Mobile division is ensuring our customers’ experience meets the quality and standards we promise to keep. My team and I are part of an on-call rotation that is committed to measuring and optimizing key Service Level Indicators (SLIs) using Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Splunk On-Call (iOS & Android) mobile apps.

For-Each is a new feature added to the DX Unified Infrastructure Management’s (DX UIM) Monitoring Configuration Service (MCS) that uses the device attributes with one or multiple values. MCS will loop through each value and create a profile for each one. If that attribute does not exist for a device, no profile will be created. Similarly, if a new value is added or removed from a device, MCS will revaluate and add or remove profiles.

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Icinga installation packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Amazon Linux 2 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. We extend the list of supported operating systems to give you even more options where you can run Icinga. At the same time we respond to changes and requirements by operating system vendors.

Log files are an important source of information about the state of an application and how it’s functioning. Therefore, log management and analysis are critical to application performance monitoring.

IT environments are getting increasingly complex and can often straddle on-premises gear, private cloud, public and/or multi-cloud, and SaaS environments... oh, and it’s a moving target. Your legacy applications may have to reincarnate in one of these forms with minimal disruption. And when things go wrong, you need all the help and pointers you can get to identify the root source of the problem and what it’s impacting.