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Tableau database connectors are changing the narrative of how to work with data from your dashboard. A few years ago, the ability to pull data from almost any source, including your company’s internal database or even a web API, and immediately convert it into powerful, interactive dashboards sounded too good to be true. Today, with Tableau database connectors, you can pull data from virtually any data source and convert it instantly into a powerful dashboard.

In this blog series we’ve been examining the Five Myths of Kubernetes Resource Optimization. The fourth myth we’re considering relates to a common misunderstanding held by many Kubernetes practitioners: manual application tuning can increase resource utilization in my applications. Let’s dive into it.

We’re excited to announce a new integration with our sister product, TrackSSL — making SSL certificate monitoring simpler and more powerful than ever, right within StatusGator.

Healthcare asset management integrates technology, data, and medical expertise to track and optimize critical resources, improving efficiency and patient care.

In our previous posts (Part 1 & Part 2), we covered how Linux coredumps are structured, how they’re collected, and how we could reduce the size of them to fit on systems with less memory. In this post, we’ll go over a method of coredump collection that does the stack unwinding on-device.

Frederik Van Leeckwyck is the co-founder and CRO at Factry. He oversees go-to-market activities and ensures their software solutions align with real factory demands. Passionate about open technologies, he believes in making data-driven insights accessible to everyone in the factory. Factories today are often rich in process data, but poor in insights.

Running apps in production? You need visibility fast. Traditional logging gives you scattered events. Prometheus gives you structured, queryable data that scales. In this guide, we’ll break down how to use Prometheus for logging-style observability, where it fits in your stack, and how to plug it into tools like Grafana or your cloud-native setup.

Today, managing a data center requires striking a balance between cost, security, and performance. Long-term costs are a different matter, even though upfront capital expenditures (CapEx) like real estate and hardware are well-known and reasonably predictable. According to industry surveys, operational expenses (OpEx), which include system provisioning, patching, compliance, and troubleshooting, steadily increase over time and frequently exceed 50% of total cost of ownership (TCO) by the third year.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are now at the cutting edge of mainstream AI systems. Their impact has been seismic, sparking a new gold rush as application developers transform the user experience away from clicks and commands into natural language and advanced automation. However, application developers have a barrier to overcome. AI models need data to reason and respond to a particular application domain.

The boundaries of what organizations build internally and what they adopt externally have blurred. Developers routinely integrate third-party services into critical CI/CD pipelines, often with minimal friction and limited oversight. This rapid plug-and-play convenience, while key to modern engineering velocity, is also quietly expanding the attack surface in ways many teams struggle to track - let alone govern.