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Outputs vs. Outcomes: Understanding the Differences

In both business and project management, two concepts that you need to pay attention to are the outputs and the outcomes. These help you to measure not only the result — but the impact as well. The two measurements go hand-in-hand, but many people focus on only the outputs, missing the bigger picture from the outcomes.

Citizen Developers: How Citizen Development Works & Reduces Dev Shortages

Business applications can be a powerful tool and streamline almost any business process. As a result, many companies and their team members are requesting mobile apps to reduce costs and enhance efficiency. The problem? There aren’t enough developers to build these apps for them. In fact, more than a third of respondents in a recent survey said that recruiting developers will continue to be challenging in 2023.

How Endeavor Streaming Accelerates Metrics with Logz.io

The platform development team at Endeavor Streaming has a critical mission — from balancing operation of the company’s leading digital video platform, at scale, to ensuring everything in their complex cloud environment is performing as expected. Enabling the company to confidently build on top of its platform and continue to evolve their product delivery is thereby also dependent on maintaining detailed visibility into its supporting cloud applications and infrastructure.

There's Nuggets in Them Buckets: How Cribl Search Can Mine Your Observability Lake

Enterprises have enough data, in fact, they are overwhelmed with it, but finding the nuggets of value amongst the data ‘noise’ is not all that simple. It is bucket’d, blob’d, and bestrewn across the enterprise infrastructure in clouds, filesystems, and hosts machines. It’s logs, metrics, traces, config files, and more, but as Jimmy Buffett says, “we’ve all got ’em, we all want ’em, but what do we do with ’em”.

Cribl Earns a Spot on the 5th Annual Enterprise Tech 30 List!

Cribl has been named to the 5th annual Enterprise Tech 30 (ET30) – a definitive list of the most promising, private enterprise tech companies. This is our first time on the ET30 list, ranking number four on the list of ten companies in the late stage category. The recognition highlights the value our innovative products deliver to our customers and partners as we work together to unlock the value of all observability data.

10 Best Practices When Logging in Python

In the eternal hunt for elusive bugs, logging is an indispensable aid. By recording the events and messages that occur during the execution of your program, logging opens the door to unparalleled debugging and performance monitoring capabilities. It all starts with Python’s built-in logging module. However, the true power of Python logging is unlocked not merely by using it, but by mastering it.

The Leading Open Source Dashboard Software

There are many advantages to using dashboards that are powered by open-source technology that make them a compelling choice for many organizations. Below we will discuss some of the major benefits of using dashboards that are built with the help of open-source technology, along with examples of some of the leading use cases for which open-source technology has been utilized.

Trace your Azure Function application with Elastic Observability

Adoption of Azure Functions in cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure has been increasing exponentially over the last few years. Serverless functions, such as the Azure Functions, provide a high level of abstraction from the underlying infrastructure and orchestration, given these tasks are managed by the cloud provider. Software development teams can then focus on the implementation of business and application logic.