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Xamarin alternatives for cross-platform mobile development

Xamarin is now officially sunset, leaving many developers seeking other options for cross-platform mobile development. If you’re one of them, don’t panic. While Microsoft themselves have shifted towards.NET MAUI, it’s not the only option – there are several robust frameworks that can match Xamarin’s capabilities, and even introduce exciting new features and efficiencies. Let’s look at some leading alternatives to keep your mobile projects thriving.

Monitoring Your Third-Party Cloud and SaaS Services is Critical

If you have a software-based business, you are using at least a few cloud based tools. It does not matter if you are a solo developer, or part of a 50-member team in a large organization. Take this random list and chances are you are using at least half of them: Your entire business - irrespective of org or market size - including your development tools, collaboration/communication tools, infrastructure and hosting, monitoring, even email - is dependent on services that you don’t control.

What is Fleet Management in OpenTelemetry

Fleet management in the broader sense is about managing, organizing, and coordinating assets within an organization to ensure efficiency, reduce costs, and maintain compliance. The term originates from the automotive industry. According to Forbes, Fleet management involves a slew of strategies and procedures required to operate a fleet of 5 or more vehicles punctually, cost-effectively, and at optimal efficiency.

Website content monitoring: Essential tool for marketers and SREs

In the bustling marketplace of the internet, your website is your meticulously curated storefront. It's where you present your products or services to potential customers and aim to make a lasting impression. Just like any well-stocked shop, constant upkeep is essential. Empty shelves, dusty displays, and expired products can send shoppers scurrying straight to your competitors.

Driving Network Automation Innovation: Kentik and Red Hat Launch Integration

We’re excited to announce a new collaboration between Kentik and Red Hat. This partnership will enable organizations to enhance network monitoring and management by integrating network observability with open-source automation tools.

How To Prevent SQL Injection in PHP

SQL injection is a big security problem that can let attackers change database queries and get access to private data they shouldn't have. In PHP applications, SQL injection attacks happen when user input is not checked or cleaned before being used in SQL queries. This article looks at the different kinds of SQL injection attacks, shows examples of PHP code that is open to attack, and talks about the best ways to stop SQL injection problems in your applications.

What Is Website Availability?

Website availability is an important factor for any online business. It means the ability of users to access and use a website or web service at any given time. Keeping high website availability is necessary for providing a good user experience, building customer trust, and avoiding potential revenue losses. In this article, we will look at what website availability means, how it is measured, and why it is so important for businesses.

observIQ Earns Gartner Nod for Cutting-Edge Observability Innovation

observIQ provides a unified telemetry platform using open standards and a powerful agent to collect, enrich, and transmit data. Built on an open-source framework, OpenTelemetry, it focuses on log management, metrics, and traces for modern observability at scale.

Monitor your CI/CD modernizations with Datadog CI Pipeline Visibility

As your organization adopts modern technologies and scales its workloads, it’s critical that your CI/CD environment follows suit to maintain smooth development and testing workflows. Adopting modern CI/CD tools (e.g., pipeline runners and testing frameworks) and best practices can increase the agility and resilience of your CI/CD environment as well as enable your teams to configure new jobs, stages, and tests to meet changing business requirements.