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Link Monitoring: A Comprehensive Guide to Network Optimization

Links are the plugs, sockets, cables, and electrical signals traveling through a network. Every link implies a function. At the hardware level, electronic signals activate functions; data are read, written, transmitted, received, checked for error, etc. At the software level, instructions activate the hardware (access methods, data link protocols, etc.). At higher levels, the data transferred or transmitted may request functions to be performed (client/ server, program-to-program, etc.).

Minify CSS and JavaScript to accelerate website speed

Minification is the technique of terminating all undue extra characters from the source code. This method reduces file sizes, allowing for faster load times and less bandwidth load. Less code appearing in front-end web pages also leads to a more compact, faster-loading website. Most importantly, minification speeds up web pages for users on limited data plans, allowing them to enjoy your content with less worry about exceeding their download quota.

Top 4 Use Cases for Using Restorepoint for MSP Compliance

The managed services provider (MSP) industry is at a pivotal moment in its history. With data management, security, and privacy regulations getting strengthened and added to the books all over the world, and with awareness of the risks associated with those issues on the rise, MSPs must take their role in compliance seriously. Any failure to do so will put individual MSPs at a competitive disadvantage, and incidents involving MSPs will be a stain on the industry’s reputation.

Nobl9's Service Level Objectives Platform Runs on InfluxDB

Tracking Service Level Objectives (SLOs) helps developers build more reliable software. At least, that’s the hope of Nobl9. The company’s self-titled SLO platform provides real-time data to software developers, DevOps practitioners, and reliability engineers so that they have the information they need to build reliable features quickly.

We Learn Systems by Changing Them

It is only possible to come to an understanding of a system of interest by trying to change it. Here, Jackson contrasts action research with old-style hard science, which tries to study a system from the outside. Laboratories draw a line between experiment and scientist. In the social world, there is no outside: we participate in the systems we study. I’ve noticed this in code: when I come to an existing codebase, I get a handle on it by changing stuff.

The Difference Between Generation 1 and Generation 2 AIOps Platforms

In this video, Trent Fitz, chief marketing officer of Zenoss, explains the key difference between Generation 1 and Generation 2 AIOps platforms. As organizations develop strategies for implementing AIOps and as they consider different vendor approaches, it’s critical to understand the differences between those approaches. This brief video will help arm you with a key question you need to ask to easily identify the difference between Gen 1 platforms and Gen 2 platforms. It’s all about the types of data being collected.

Monitoring robots in real time with Grafana and other cloud native solutions

Edgardo Peregrino is a freelance software developer, writer, maker and IT technician. For six years now, I’ve been a passionate maker with a focus on robotics. Recently, I entered the world of cloud native computing, which has allowed me to integrate maker projects with open source tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Jaeger.