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Grafana k6 one year later: Lessons learned after an acquisition

A few years ago, I was meeting with venture capitalists and private equity firms about the future of k6, the open source performance testing tool that we created in 2016 and open sourced in 2017. After talking about the k6 product mission — to give modern engineering teams better tools to build reliable applications — one investor challenged us to create an even bigger vision for the company: What if we acquired a company to broaden the k6 story?

What are Core Web Vitals? | Core web Vitals explained in 7 minutes

Core Web Vitals are a system of metrics used by Google to analyze your site's performance and user experience. If your site has a poor score in any core web vital metrics, google will rank your site lower than other websites. In this explanation video, we will look at the meaning of core web vitals and a few of the most common causes for poor core web vital metrics.

How to install a Site24x7 APM Insight Java agent in a WildFly server 8.x and above-standalone setup

This video will walk you through the process of installing the Site24x7 APM Insight Java agent in a WildFly server (in a standalone setup). With the Site24x7 APM Insight Java agent installed, you can monitor your entire application. You'll be able to track every transaction that occurs, identify transaction errors, and optimize transactions to prevent your end users from becoming impacted.

How to install a Site24x7 APM Insight Java agent in a Spring Boot application

This video will walk you through the process of installing the Site24x7 APM Insight Java agent in a Spring Boot application. With the APM Insight Java agent installed, you can monitor your entire application, track every transaction that occurs, identify transaction errors, and optimize transactions before your end users are impacted.

3 Tips to Deliver Microsoft Teams Service Excellence

As we continue to see Microsoft Teams usage skyrocket, now more than ever, users are depending on Microsoft Teams service excellence to maintain productivity. But it can be challenging to deliver a reliable user experience in today’s modern workplace. There are many factors in the IT environment impacting Microsoft Teams performance, and IT teams typically don’t have full visibility into them, or the service quality delivered to end users.

Getting the Most from Microsoft Teams PSTN Functionality: The Experts Weigh In

The popularity of Microsoft Teams Calling has many organizations looking at their options to add Teams PSTN capabilities to their Microsoft Teams deployment. While it’s important to select the right PSTN option for your business, it’s even more important to recognize the complexity that PSTN will bring to your Teams deployment and have a plan to deliver good service quality with the technical support resources you have.

Flux: The Key to Edge Data Replication with InfluxDB

EDR enables developers to use the full capabilities of InfluxDB at the edge. Developers also can use that same data in the cloud for different purposes. Flux is the data scripting and query language for the InfluxDB time series database platform, enabling useful features such as Edge Data Replication (EDR).

Observability Is a Data Analytics Problem

Observability is a hot topic in the IT world these days. It is oftentimes discussed through the lens of the “three pillars of observability”: Logs, Metrics and Traces. Indeed these telemetry signal types help us understand what happened, where it happened and why it happened in our system.

SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud: Which Is Right for You?

The SAP private cloud has been around for a while and was designed to provide secure, reliable, and scalable computing services to smaller organizations. Choosing the right platform upon which to lay the foundation of your entire business's operations is no small task. This article should help you reach a clearer decision by explaining: To learn how Avantra can help your company succeed, give it a try today, for free.