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An organization at Level 2 in the Observability Maturity Model has built on the foundation of their monitoring capabilities and taken the first steps into observability. In recent years, two major trends have driven the need for the deeper insights that observability can provide.

After months–or potentially, years–of hard work by teams across a gaming enterprise, when the day arrives for a game launch, the last thing your enterprise needs is slowdowns, glitches, outages or poor performance. It’s the death knell for any game, because for your avid gaming customers, there’s always something else (read: a game that isn’t yours) to check out.

At Broadcom Software, we’re constantly trying to speed value delivery and minimize upgrade efforts for our customers. Toward that end, the DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) team releases cumulative updates every calendar quarter. In addition to quality fixes, these cumulative updates include performance improvements, feature enhancements, and expanded platform support. Recently DX UIM 20.4, cumulative update 4, was released for both Operator Console and Server Core packs.

Apache Kafka is a high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. Its storage layer is in essence a massively scalable pub/sub message queue designed as a distributed transaction log. It can be used to process streams of data in real-time, building up a commit log of changes. Kafka has strong ordering guarantees that enable it to handle all sorts of dataflow patterns including very low latency messaging and efficient multicast publish / subscribe.

We're excited to announce that starting with the new Splunk Cloud Product 9.0.2205 release, it's easier to create, manage and use private apps. Although Splunk is great by itself, we can all agree that the real value of Splunk comes from all the applications that Developers, SplunkTrust folks and Splunkers build.

The network is designed to connect the organization’s users, partners, customers and visitors, but those connections are useless without software. While applications run on internal servers, end points and the cloud, the performance of the network in large measure defines the performance of the application, and this performance is what user experience and application experience (AX) is based on.

In today’s fast-paced business environment, tech startups are on the rise. Several small- and medium-scale businesses are competing with established companies to showcase their unique digital services. Heroku is a favorite among these businesses and their development teams, as its PaaS provides a ready-to-serve platform for application setup. Developers can deploy the platform easily without investing too heavily in the infrastructure and DevOps setup.