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Lightrun's Product Updates - Q2 2023

During the second quarter of this year, Lightrun persisted producing a wealth of developer productivity solutions and enhancements, aiming for greater troubleshooting of distributed workload applications, reduction of MTTR for complex issues, and cost optimization within cloud-computing. Read more below the main new features as well as the key product enhancements that were released in Q2 of 2023!

The Future of Logz.io: Simple, Cost-effective Observability

Asaf and I founded Logz.io in 2015 to provide developers with the ultimate open source log management experience. With our product, logging with the ELK Stack was simple, efficient, and automated for the first time – so customers could save engineering costs and accelerate MTTR.

What is Network Traffic Analysis?

How much network traffic is received by a business in the United States on average? More specifically, how many gigabytes do you think it is? The numbers may surprise you. According to Statista, the average traffic received was nearly 200 BILLION gigabytes (178.21 billion GB). And it is expected to grow to 224.08 in 2023. Another interesting statistic involving traffic, with numbers provided by Broadband Search, is that users in America generate 3.1 million GBs per minute every minute.

Database Sharding: What is it, and How it Works?

Today’s world runs on data. We are constantly improving our solutions thanks to the plethora of data available to us in the public domain. Our society has seen a behavioral change when it comes to formulating remedies. We are increasingly adopting data-driven decisions, and rightly so. Now, talking about this whole data logic, where do you think this enormous amount of data gets stored? Well, the answer is a database!

GitOps: An Introductory Guide

This post was written by Pete Osah, a software developer who is familiar with web technologies, passionate about new software technologies, and keen on developing ways to pass knowledge to others in a simple manner. Thanks to new technologies, developers can release software and features to production at a faster pace and with greater efficiency. But maintaining software dependability and integrity requires having the necessary tools in place.

Strengthening Aviation Cybersecurity: Take Flight with Teneo and Akamai Guardicore

In today’s digital landscape, the aviation industry faces increasingly sophisticated cyber threats that can compromise the safety and security of critical systems. To combat these challenges, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has implemented new cybersecurity requirements. In this blog post, we’ll explore how Teneo, in collaboration with Akamai Guardicore, can help aviation organizations meet these requirements and strengthen their cybersecurity defenses.

Monitoring High Cardinality Metrics

Monitoring is all about data. When you implement a monitoring tool, you have to make sure that the monitoring software can handle data. Today, data flows at high speeds and in large volumes. Data also comes in diverse forms, which increases the complexity of data ingestion. Because of this, monitoring solution providers promote, among others, their data processing capacities. If a monitoring platform can handle large and diverse data that comes in at a high velocity, it becomes a big advantage.

Centralized Observability: What, Why, and How?

Centralized Observability may not be a buzzword but its practicality and importance can’t be denied. Let’s see why is that. As DevOps and IT teams recognize the importance of Observability, it becomes a critical component to monitor the stack and ensure data reliability. That being said, enterprises are rapidly embracing modern data stacks to harness the power of data. Therefore, a host of platforms require data observability as a tool for reliable and trustworthy data management.