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The waiting can be intensely stressful. You are mid-way through a critical production upgrade during the weekend. The schedule is tight. Suddenly there is an unexpected problem you aren’t able to resolve. You need help. So, you call in a support ticket. And that’s when the waiting starts. While you’re waiting for the support team to review and get back to you, questions race through your mind: How quickly will they respond to the ticket?

Lambda is a top-rated compute service available on the AWS cloud service network. Its popularity largely derives from its ease of use, allowing users to run Lambda functions reliably without provisioning or managing servers. Lambda can be triggered manually or by any linked events in the AWS network, including DynamoDB streams, SQS, Kinesis, and more.

Since we introduced AppScope in 2021, we’ve been relentlessly working towards the production-ready milestone. Last week we released AppScope 1.0. It’s been a long haul getting to this point. Not really sure if it took this long because we solved difficult problems, or if we’re just that slow. Someone told me that what we are doing would go a lot faster if we use a modern high-level language. Maybe … Can you imagine doing this in TypeScript? Yeah, me either.

In LogStream 3.0, we introduced a framework that provides a way for LogStream customers to build, reuse, and share configuration modules – including pipelines, lookups, data samples, and knowledge objects – called Packs. While each Pack has its own “context” containing custom pipelines, routes, lookups, variables, etc., it still retains access to built-in LogStream configuration that is shipped with the product.

We just released the new SquaredUp 5.4 with some brilliant new features. Headlining as the two biggest updates were the new ODBC data source and a new visualization – the Surface image tile. The Surface tile lets you build stunning dashboards with any image.

The world is going digital with lightning speed. According to this report by Statista, at the beginning of January 2021, there were 4.66 billion active internet users in the world, which accounts for 59.5 percent of the world's population, and out of this 4.66 billion, around 4.32 billion (92.6%) users have accessed the internet by mobile. All companies regardless of the sector in which they operate, want to use the internet for expanding their business.

Many.NET applications and frameworks support a plugin based model. Also known as “add-in” or “extension” model. A plugin model allows extension or customization of functionality by adding assemblies and config files to a directory that is scanned at application startup. For example.

Designed at the dawn of the commercial internet, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a policy-based routing protocol that has long been an established part of the internet infrastructure. Historically, BGP was primarily of interest to ISPs and hosting service providers whose revenue depends on delivering traffic.

Back in November 2021, Grafana Labs released version 2.4 of Grafana Loki. One of the new features it included was a Promtail Kafka Consumer that can easily ingest messages out of Kafka and into Loki for storing, querying, and visualization. Kafka has always been an important technology for distributed streaming data architectures, so I wanted to share a working example of how to use it to help you get started.