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Google Workspace is a robust set of productivity applications with billions of users and millions of paying organizations. These include small mom-and-pop shops and the largest enterprises. Google provides the Google Reports API, “a RESTful API you can use to access information about the Google Workspace activities of your users.” This data is critical for establishing a solid security posture.

When we’re testing our apps, it's a big headache to simulate what the user goes through while steering clear of the more problematic parts of those processes. These parts, often external and beyond our control and responsibility, are usually not the focus of our testing. Think external services, third-party modules, or APIs. Relying on these unpredictable elements for our tests is a no-go. Nor do we want to rework our tests to check internal implementations just to dodge these issues.

Learn how to analyze subscriber behavior using Kentik. In this post, we focus on the challenges and solutions of identifying and tracking the customers in an IP network while complying with regulations such as GDPR, show how Kentik Custom Dimensions and Data Explorer provide the analysis, and finally touch on how the associated APIs help automate and ease the entire process.

How do you know that your open source project has been enthusiastically adopted by the community? A) Engineers give you a raucous standing ovation when a feature is revealed. B) People form a long line to meet you at an industry event. C) Every time there is a release, social media notifications blow up your phone. If you’re Grafana founder Torkel Ödegaard, the answer is D) all of the above.

On December 8, 2023, Adobe's extensive customer base was impacted by a series of outages in the Adobe Experience Cloud, starting from 8:00 AM EST and continuing until 1:45 AM EST on December 9. We haven't seen a third-party outage of this magnitude since the DoubleClick outage of 2018.