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Mattermost Pro Tips: Optimizing channel headers in Mattermost

Channels are at the core of how teams collaborate in Mattermost. While team conversations take center stage, every channel is packed with additional features to help you stay in sync. Today, let’s take a closer look at channel headers, and how you can use them to help your team use Mattermost channels more effectively.

Exploring the Benefits and Trade-Offs of Microservices and Serverless Architectures

Just how in demand is serverless computing, really? Popularized by Amazon in 2014, serverless computing had already clinched the title of the highest-growth public cloud service as early as 2018. With its total market value shooting past the USD 9 billion mark in 2022 and projected to hit a jaw-dropping USD 90 billion by 2032, it’s safe to say this relative newcomer is doing quite alright for itself.

The Comparison Between Wix and Weebly: Which Option Should You Pick to Build Your Website?

Even if you're new to website creation, you've probably heard of Wix and Weebly. Alongside app-building tools like Firebase, they're two of the most popular resources on the market. At first glance, they might look pretty similar – so how do you choose which one to use for your new site? This post explores both platforms, comparing their advantages and limitations. What's the difference between Wix and Weebly, and which is the best website builder for your needs? Let's find out!

Is Icedrive the Best Cloud Storage Provider of 2023?

The cloud storage business is stronger and more competitive than ever in 2023. People are actively searching for alternative cloud storage options that offer the best features in terms of cost, privacy, and ease of use. For this reason, Icedrive cloud storage is an option that many people are considering, but are there alternatives to Icedrive that you should consider for your cloud storage? Let's find out!

InfluxDB 3.0: System Architecture

InfluxDB 3.0 (previously known as InfluxDB IOx) is a (cloud) scalable database that offers high performance for both data loading and querying, and focuses on time series use cases. This article describes the system architecture of the database. Figure 1 shows the architecture of InfluxDB 3.0 that includes four major components and two main storages.

How to Use Generative AI for Knowledge Management

In the blog “How Generative AI Can Benefit Knowledge Management”, we looked at the benefits of AI to knowledge management to enhance the quality, automating the creation of content and enabling more engaging content. In enabling generative AI to become part of the knowledge management framework introduces concerns about accuracy, data bias, privacy and security. Now, it’s time to look at how we can make it work well together...

Expand Your Monitoring Capabilities with AppSignal's Standalone Agent Docker Image

Want to monitor all of your application's services? Our Standalone Agent allows you to monitor processes our standard integrations don't monitor by default, helping you effortlessly expand your monitoring capabilities. To help simplify the process of configuring our standalone agent, we're excited to announce the launch of our Standalone Agent's Docker image, available on Docker Hub under the name appsignal/agent.

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Get smarter about your refresh cycles

Deciding what to migrate, what to modernize, and what to retain on-premises is part of enterprise IT infrastructure management. When a refresh cycle is up in your data center, there are two very different types of competing motions you need to evaluate. While they may appear to be independent, they’re also kind of not, so it can be tricky to decide which one to execute—or even to execute both—and to do so smoothly.