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The Future-Proof Experience Framework w/ Tech Mahindra

Time is a luxury that IT workers don’t often have – and that’s particularly true after the massive upheaval all of our businesses have experienced since the pandemic. Ever since the working model changed overnight and digital transformation accelerated to warp speed, IT teams have had to implement new initiatives quickly in order to keep up. But how can they know that these initiatives have been successful?

TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: IoT Data from the Edge to Cloud with Flux

When it comes to writing data to InfluxDB, you have a lot of options. You can: The last bullet is the most powerful and flexible way of maintaining and managing your fleet of IoT devices. That architecture offers you several advantages including: Architecture drawing of the last bullet. Sensors write data to an OSS instance of InfluxDB at the edge which in turn write data to InfluxDB Cloud.

What is the Log4j 2 Vulnerability?

Over the last few days, there have been a tremendous amount of posts about the Log4j 2 vulnerability, with Wired going so far as claiming that, “the internet is on fire.” Tl;dr: LogDNA is not exposed to risk from the Log4Shell vulnerability in Log4j 2 at this time. If that’s all you came for, you can stop reading here. If you want to learn more about the vulnerability and how LogDNA protects you from risks like these, grab a cup of coffee and read on.

Cloud computing has won. But we still don't know what that means

There’s little doubt that cloud computing is now the absolutely dominant force across enterprise computing. Most companies have switched from buying their own hardware and software to renting both from vendors who host their services in vast anonymous data centers around the globe.

Observing Kubernetes With LM Logs

As more and more IT organizations move towards containerized workloads and services, it is more important than ever to have insight into the containers and the services running within. Leading the container orchestration charge is Kubernetes (aka k8s – the 8 represents the letters omitted from the middle of the word). In fact, about two-thirds of IT engineers have seen their Kubernetes option increase during the pandemic as there becomes more need for scaling and performance.