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3 Ways to Drive Sustainable IT with Nexthink Employee Engagement

If you’re an IT / EUC professional looking to accelerate sustainable IT practices, it’s imperative to put employees at the center of your strategy. Driving sustainable practices and carbon reduction is a collective and long-term effort that requires behavioral change and impacts individual digital workspaces, so engaging employees is key.

Cribl Reference Architecture Series: Scaling Effectively for a High Volume of Agents

In this livestream, Cribl’s Ahmed Kira and I explore the challenges of scaling your Cribl Stream architecture to accommodate a large number of agents, providing valuable insights on what you need to consider when expanding your Cribl Stream deployment. Managing data flows from a high volume of agents presents a unique set of challenges that need to be addressed.

Heroku Monitoring: Visualization and Understanding Data

Data visualization is a way to make sense of the vast amount of information generated in the digital world. By converting raw data into a more understandable format, such as charts, graphs, and maps, it enables humans to see patterns, trends, and insights more quickly and easily. This helps in better decision making, strategic planning, and problem-solving. Visualization and understanding data are critical in platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings like Heroku.

Solving Faster in the Cloud Hybrid Infrastructure Observability with Kentik

How can you quickly discover misconfigured security groups, access control lists, or routing tables? We explore how practitioners serving distributed teams or customer workloads can tighten up policies, impact costs, and unblock their colleagues with cloud infrastructure observability that starts with the network.

See How Kubernetes Traffic Routes Through Data Center, Cloud, and Internet with Kentik Kube

Using Kentik Kube, cloud and infrastructure engineers can access detailed network traffic and performance visibility for internal and external traffic for their Kubernetes clusters to quickly detect and solve network problems.

Microservices on Kubernetes: 12 Expert Tips for Success

In recent years, microservices have emerged as a popular architectural pattern. Although these self-contained services offer greater flexibility, scalability, and maintainability compared to monolithic applications, they can be difficult to manage without dedicated tools. Kubernetes, a scalable platform for orchestrating containerized applications, can help navigate your microservices.

A better Grafana OnCall: Delivering on features for users at scale

Enterprise IT is just a different animal. Whether it’s operating at scale, undertaking massive migrations, working across scores of teams, or addressing tight security requirements, engineers at these organizations can face different obstacles than their counterparts at smaller organizations and startups.

Time Series Is out of This World: Data in the Space Sector

While time series data is critical for space industries, managing that data is not always straightforward. While humans have yet to develop light-speed travel, teleportation or lots of the other cool things we see in movies or read in books, that doesn’t mean we aren’t making progress. Advances in technology are starting, ever so slowly, to blur the lines between science fiction and reality when it comes to outer space.