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Splunk Mobile puts the power of Splunk in your hands. But with great power, comes great responsibility. That’s why this year with the release of Splunk Enterprise 9.0, we’ve shipped Splunk Secure Gateway (the backend service that powers Splunk Mobile) with even more features and tools to help you responsibly manage your mobile fleet.

In this article, you’ll be introduced to two tools: Speedscale and NeoLoad. Both of these tools offer you a way to load test your applications. This post will compare their ease of setup, development experience, fit within a modern infrastructure, and integration into CI/CD. Load testing is not a new concept in any way: the term was common even before Google Trends started recording data in 2004.

When it comes to IoT data, MQTT is a superstar. With so many IoT devices generating data out in the world, developers need ways to access it. After all, data lies at the heart of every application. But data doesn’t just magically manifest itself into your datastore, and building the right data pipeline can make or break an application. Data collection is not a one-size-fits-all problem to solve.

You are not the only one asking this seemingly popular question! Several companies are torn between the rise in appeal of open-source databases and the undeniable challenges inherent to their adoption. Let’s explore the trends, the drivers and the challenges related to open-source database adoption.

Curious about Microsoft Azure and the best ways to connect? Azure is a hybrid Cloud Service Provider (CSP) with customized, scalable, cloud-based packages. These encompass Software as a Service (SaaS), based on subscription-based software licensing and delivery, Platform as a Service (PaaS), allowing companies to develop, deploy, manage, and update applications, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), providing high-level application programming interfaces (APIs).

Kubeflow 1.6 was released on September 7, and Charmed Kubeflow 1.6 (Canonical’s distribution) came shortly after, as it follows the same roadmap. Charmed Kubeflow introduces a new version of Kubeflow pipelines as well as model training enhancements.

When talking about managing web applications and the services they provide, the term “API gateway” is often thrown around, but what does it mean? In order to unpack how a gateway functions, we first need to understand what an API is.