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How Artificial Intelligence is Fortifying Website Security

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are among some of the most exciting technological revolutions of our time. An increasingly ubiquitous aspect of our digital environment, AI is changing how we interact with our devices and surf the internet. Most of us fall somewhere between the two poles of a utopian and a dystopian understanding of the new technology, seeing both its benefits for society and its inherent risks.

Choosing an API technology: gRPC, REST, GraphQL

How do you choose an API style and API technology when you start a new project? Today, if you look at API technology research such as RapidAPI Developer Survey and Insights, you’ll probably conclude that REST is the dominant force in the API landscape. While REST is certainly well-known to most developers and used in a lot of production environments, it may not be the best fit for every scenario.

IoT at your home, work, or data center with Prometheus metrics and Grafana Cloud

We recently had a hackathon at Grafana Labs. Anyone who wanted could get several work days without normal responsibilities to do whatever they found meaningful in the wider Grafana community and/or Grafana Labs commercial offerings. This allowed me to invest some time into Kraken, a project designed for reading out different sensors, and to update it for modern hardware and libraries.

Using the New Flux Usage API to Calculate Pricing for InfluxDB Cloud

InfluxDB Cloud offers a transparent usage-based pricing model that only charges users on the work performed, with no minimums or long-term commitments. This puts YOU in charge of what you spend. However, with four separate pricing vectors, it’s not always easy to see exactly where that cost is going, or how to estimate your potential spend based on your data usage.

API 2.0: TruSTAR Operationalizes Data Orchestration and Normalization for a New Era in Intelligence Management

Today we released API 2.0, the latest version of TruSTAR’s API-First Intelligence Management Platform. This new version continues our commitment to simplify and streamline intelligence for automation in enterprise security intelligence management, and breaks through long-standing industry limitations around operationalizing data orchestration and normalization.

Top 7 API Monitoring Tools for Your Business in 2021

As APIs are so important for connecting modern cloud applications, keeping an eye on their availability and speed is essential if you want to give a great user experience. A good API monitoring tool can assist you in developing dependable APIs by detecting and fixing issues before they reach your users. If you're looking for a solution like this, look no further. In this article, we looked at some of the top API monitoring tools available today.

How Traffic Engineering Can Lead to a Smooth Transition to 5G

Communications Service Providers around the world have experienced an unprecedented explosion in demand for bandwidth due to several driving forces including more video streaming, the growing popularity in areas like cloud gaming and the increasing move to the cloud to name a few.

Top 7 IoT Tools & Platforms for App Development

The connected reality of gadgets presented by the Internet of Things (IoT) can no longer be considered as just a buzz as it has already transformed our living to a great extent. The connected things made our homes, workplaces, and transportation smarter. No wonder IoT apps are now one of the most popular app categories. As the latest statistics reveal, the global market share of IoT apps is expected to touch a whopping 520 billion USD by the end of 2021.