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Best practices for monitoring ML models in production

Regardless of how much effort teams put into developing, training, and evaluating ML models before they deploy, their functionality inevitably degrades over time due to several factors. Unlike with conventional applications, even subtle trends in the production environment a model operates in can radically alter its behavior. This is especially true of more advanced models that use deep learning and other non-deterministic techniques.

5 Best IT Monitoring Software

IT monitoring software tracks the operations and activities of your end users and any software in your IT environment. IT experts use this specific type of software to determine the health and performance of your IT infrastructure and its components so that you can make well-informed and real-time decisions for resource provisioning and IT security. You may be researching the best IT monitoring software on the market today but don’t know where to start. That’s where we come in.

A Product Manager's Insights from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024

I recently had the privilege of attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 in Paris. The conference, hosted by the Linux Foundation, marked the 10th anniversary of Kubernetes. Here are the key takeaways and highlights from the conference.

OpenTelemetry Looks Good To Me: Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir | GrafanaCON 2024 | Grafana

In this talk, D-EDGE Principal Engineer Clément Boudereau introduces you to Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics by using two simple Java applications, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana dashboards. Helpful links:☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.

How to Improve Network Performance & Unleash its Full Potential

In this age of rapid technological advancement, businesses rely heavily on their networks to thrive in the digital landscape. Whether you're a startup, a small enterprise, or a multinational corporation, the efficiency and speed of your network can make all the difference in achieving success or getting lost in the digital abyss.

The Top 10 Most Common Website Monitoring Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)

Websites are the digital storefronts for your business. If your website goes down, you risk losing out on customers, sales, and opportunities in general (not to mention what it can do for your reputation). That’s why using a website monitoring tool is crucial. Done properly, it gives you a vigilant eye on your site’s health, alerting you to problems before they snowball into major delays. But… website monitoring is deceptively tricky to get right.

How to narrow and chain your Playwright locators

Locating elements in your end-to-end tests can sometimes be a challenge. In this video, we tackle the problem of hard-to-locate elements by chaining multiple locators using `locator().and()`. By chaining locators you'll be able to combine user-first locators with specific locators reaching for a test id or CSS class.

Observability for Everyone

What do you need to achieve observability? Who you ask and the role they hold will influence the answer, but the answer likely follows this pattern: “You only need is how you define observability.” I cannot disagree with this logic. A specific use case may only need a specific type of telemetry. Experience and expertise allow engineers to quickly answer questions about a system without expanding into adjacent data types.