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Containers have been the buzz among developers in recent years with the adoption of cloud-native orchestration tools like Kubernetes and DevOps workflows centered around containers. At the same time, virtual machines (VMs) still power many enterprise workloads, whether they’re running in a public cloud provider like Azure or an on-premises data center running VMware. In one of my early jobs, we built a private cloud—in 2012. This was a ground-breaking project at the time.

In a rapidly changing field like technology, it's essential for IT leaders to stay up-to-date on the latest trends. And one of the best ways to do this is by reading thought-provoking tech books. In general terms, there are two kinds of books you can read. The first group consists of technical texts or those focused on frameworks, best practices, and other formal topics you want to expand your knowledge on.

It's a story as old as the web itself: someone on your team gets excited to install a new tool. The tool promises to finally give you a clear view into the problems your users have with your product. Your team agrees to give it a go. The errors start coming... ...and they don't stop coming... Soon enough, most of your team has either created an email filter to manage all the alerts, or has unsubscribed themselves entirely. Just like all the other tools. Welcome to alert fatigue.

For software development teams to make meaningful progress, they must invest in efficient monitoring, reporting practices, and tooling. This is because only by keeping track of select metrics, such as those pertaining to application performance, will you know whether you are on the right track. Without knowledge of whether the software is functioning and performing as it is supposed to, there is no way of knowing what, if any, changes need to be made.

Cyber Essentials is a UK government backed scheme, developed by the National Cyber Security Centre. Since its inception the scheme has become the benchmark for IT security, helping organizations to deploy technical controls to guard against the common types of cyber-attacks and improve data security.

We love to write and ship code to help developers bring their ideas and projects to life. That’s why we’re constantly working on improving our product in sync with developer needs to ensure their happiness and accelerate Time To Awesome. This month is very special. We now have a new engine that significantly increases the “horsepower and torque” for InfluxDB.

Native MQTT eliminates the need to write custom code, orchestrate additional technology layers or incorporate additional hosting services. MQTT is a powerhouse within the Internet of Things (IoT) space. Its pub/sub model and lack of defined payload structure make it infinitely adaptable to the needs of modern sensors, devices and systems. IoT data is also time-series data.

Ah SpiceWorld. One of NinjaOne’s favorite conferences – and a personal favorite of mine. So after two years of the show being virtual, we were thrilled to learn that SpiceWorld would be back in-person this year (with a virtual element too). We couldn’t wait to see everyone in person again! Conversations with customers in the NinjaOne booth Now that the show is over, I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to showcase what Ninja was up to and highlight the great work of our team.

A few months back, we introduced the beta release of Elastic APM.NET agent profiler auto-instrumentation. Fast forward to today, we're excited to announce the general availability (GA) of this powerful capability that allows the.NET APM agent to automatically instrument.NET Framework, .NET Core, and.NET applications without requiring code changes or recompilation.

The latest release of Elastic Enterprise Search introduces a suite of new features and capabilities for building world-class search experiences for your mission-critical applications, websites, online stores, or anything in-between: With this release, building search experiences for your ecommerce retail site, enhancing your employees’ ability to access relevant HR documentation, or building a custom application to quickly draw analytic insights can draw on the power of using the trained model of