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What do you see in the clouds?

Remember being a carefree kid? Laying down in a field on a warm spring day, gazing up at the sky, and imagining shapes in the clouds. Maybe you saw a lion or an elephant dancing across the sky. You felt grounded and safe, enjoying the breeze while listening to cheers from the football game in the distance. But could you see the rain forming on the horizon threatening to distort your animal shapes and send the football team running for cover?

More efficient pair programming with Datadog CoScreen

Pair programming is a well-established practice in agile software development. But it can be difficult in remote settings, as most remote collaboration tools don’t accommodate real-time, spontaneous interactivity among participants’ desktop environments. Datadog CoScreen changes that by combining interactive screen sharing and video conferencing in a way that closely mimics in-person collaboration.

Cleaning and Interpreting Time Series Metrics with InfluxDB

A look at how to use Flux for data cleansing and analytics through the browser and via Visual Studio. Time series data is data you want to analyze and monitor over time. For example, you might want to know the water levels over the course of the day for a plant, or how much sunlight it receives and when. This is a simple but easy-to-understand example. Obviously on a larger scale the stakes can be higher.

The Top 5 Fashion Website Issues

The online fashion industry is undergoing a period of change more significant than most. Off the back of a pandemic, consumers became more demanding, but also more socially conscious. Coupled with supply chain issues and reduced high street sales, this put even more pressure on eCommerce. So how can today’s fashion retailers meet these changing expectations? And how can they leverage their online presence to better assure customers?

VictoriaMetrics Meetup March 2023

Watch the recording of the first VictoriaMetrics User Meet Up in 2023 live-streamed on our YouTube Channel. Our Founders team discussed Q1 2023 highlights, including features highlights, the 2023 roadmap for VictoriaMetrics, a first introduction to the upcoming VictoriaLogs - and we finished the meet up with an 'Ask Me Anything' session. Thanks for all the questions and the discussion! Enjoy the recording :-)

The neglected tech arctic winter - Internal SaaS expenses

The current tech winter has a number of glaring stories — cyclical as they may be, there’s one truth that’s been gleaned over more than the rest; the money spent on internal software tools to support tech infrastructure is bloated. And there’s nothing cyclical about this infrastructure spending.

Building a Distributed Security Team With Cjapi's James Curtis

Join Cribl's Ed Bailey and Cjapi's James Curtis as they discuss the challenges of building a distributed global security team. Talent is hard to find and companies are hiring all over the world to build the best teams possible, but this trend has a price. Traditional management processes do not work, from building culture to the basics around assigning, tracking and measuring work. Team leads and managers rarely have the experience and training to handle remote teams which can impact team effectiveness and thus weaken the enterprise security posture.