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Datadog On Caching

Caching (and cache invalidation!) is often mentioned as one of the hardest problems in computer science. While caching can bring substantial performance improvements, reasoning about cached data can be extremely difficult as caching fundamentally means that you are no longer reading from your source of truth. With that in mind, many teams at Datadog needed to build distributed caches to scale their services and keep latency low.

10 Mistakes to avoid when framing your IT Incident Management Strategy

An IT incident is an unplanned disruption that negatively impacts an IT service. As the importance of IT to the business has increased, the impact of IT incidents has become greater. IT incidents can result in revenue loss, loss of employee productivity, SLA financial penalties, government fines, and more. An effective IT incident management strategy is now essential in every organization. For a business like Amazon whose entire business relies on IT, a single second of slowness can cost over $15,000.

Empowering Security Teams: The Importance of Data Control and Freedom of Choice

Enterprises are getting increasingly tired of feeling locked into vendors, and rightfully so. As soon as you put your observability data into a SaaS vendors’ storage, it’s now their data, and it’s difficult to get it out or reuse it for other purposes. As a result, strategic independence is becoming increasingly important as organizations decide what data management tools they’re going to invest time and resources into.

Cloud Provider Performance Monitoring: April 2023 Insights

Explore our insightful April 2023 report on the performance of top cloud providers. We've carefully assessed the health of these leading services by monitoring outages and issues throughout the month. Using data from their official status pages, we've normalized the information to create a clear and concise overview of their reliability. Find out how your favorite cloud provider stacks up in this essential report.

How to monitor cloud vendors with Notion and IsDown

In our modern business environment, it's important to stay updated on the status of the cloud services we use daily. Many companies depend on multiple cloud platforms for different aspects of their work, and having a single place to monitor them all can make a big difference. Notion, a popular all-in-one workspace tool, can help improve team communication, while IsDown makes it easy to track cloud vendors' status pages.

How OpManager improves the performance of your IBM devices with its extensive monitoring

IBM, popularly known as Big Blue, is one of the most recognized brands in the world. And rightfully so, considering their role in many of our technological innovations over the past century. IBM is among the top 5 vendors for servers and storage devices—commanding a major market share for both the products despite their recent shift of focus towards computing innovations like quantum computing. IBM also makes other hardware devices like routers, switches, printers, load balancers, and firewalls.

Building better mobile experiences: tips from Riot Games and Nextdoor

Building high quality, performant mobile apps is hard. Developers need to keep up with rapidly changing technologies, high user expectations, and competitive app stores. We sat down with Julius Skripkauskas and Walt Leung to discuss how mobile developers can build better mobile experiences, including choosing the right technology, focusing on the right KPIs, and staying on top of trends in device formats and AI.