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Aiven offers two powerful in-memory data stores - Aiven for Dragonfly and Aiven for Caching. In this post we help you make the optimal choice for your project. Speed is essential in the world of data access. When milliseconds matter, choosing the right in-memory data store can make or break your application's performance. This article delves into a head-to-head comparison of two prominent contenders that Aiven offers: Aiven for Dragonfly and Aiven for Caching.

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth and final installment of a series of blog posts previewing our State of Observability 2024 survey report. In last week’s episode of this blog series, we looked at whether observability is replacing or enhancing existing IT monitoring tools. This week, we’ll look at why metrics are the most important observability data type to ITOps teams and what's holding back tracing.

Ever wished you could automatically generate a detailed and targeted dashboard at the end of your CI/CD pipeline for immediate visibility into your new deployments? Well, that’s exactly what we’re doing at SquaredUp, and we're excited to share our approach to integrating Dashboards as Code.

London, 30 May 2024. Today Canonical announced the availability of Real-time Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. By ensuring high-priority processes are executed first, with deterministic response times, Real-time Ubuntu 24.04 LTS reduces latency compared to mainline Linux and enhances the system’s ability to handle time-sensitive operations effectively.

If you are in charge of doing IT Asset Management (ITAM) in this current mobile-centric world, a well-rounded option is to embrace Microsoft Intune for Mobile Device Management (MDM) and application security. But MDM is just a small part of ITAM. And it's only logical for your IT operations to have a centralized location with all your assets' information. Intune will help you with that but to some extent: it only collects data from Microsoft devices.

Choosing the right network monitoring tool is important for keeping your network running smoothly. But, when it comes to choosing the right tool, the decision often boils down to two primary options: open-source network monitoring and paid solutions. Each comes with its unique set of advantages and challenges, making the choice dependent on your specific needs and circumstances.

We’re happy to share customer research today demonstrating that VictoriaMetrics is the world’s most cost-efficient monitoring solution! The real-world results show customers can save energy costs and achieve Net Zero carbon compliance faster with VictoriaMetrics in their tech stack.

Once upon a time, in a tech company, an engineering team had the freedom to independently deploy updates and new features to a Kubernetes cluster. This autonomy helped speed up development but also led to unforeseen issues with resource management. The platform team responsible for maintaining the cluster's health noticed an increase in orphaned Persistent Volumes (PV), a piece of plug-in storage independent of other Kubernetes cluster pods.

We present five common myths about platform engineering — what it is and what it isn’t — that we've heard when folks aren't considering the whole picture.