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Germain UX's Platform Now Available on Salesforce AppExchange: A Game-Changer for Salesforce Users!

We are absolutely delighted to announce that the Salesforce Partner Team has given their enthusiastic approval for Germain UX to be publicly listed on the illustrious Salesforce AppExchange platform. Following an extensive and rigorous review process that spanned an impressive 14 months, we are honored to become part of the exclusive league of top-tier applications featured on the AppExchange. This marks a momentous achievement for Germain UX, and we are eager to share this significant milestone with you.

What is OpenTelemetry? A Comprehensive Guide

An Essential Guide to OpenTelemetry In today’s expeditious, highly distributed software landscape, achieving true observability is no simple task. As you strive to understand how your applications and services perform and behave, you face multiple challenges. Moreover, you need to instrument applications and services that generate data effectively, have a reliable means to transmit it, and, most importantly, find a way to visualize and derive insights from it.

Azure Event Grid Monitoring and Alerting

Azure Event Grid is a versatile and event-driven service within the Microsoft Azure cloud ecosystem, designed to enable seamless event handling and routing across various Azure services and external sources. This powerful service plays a pivotal role in facilitating event-driven architectures, streamlining the development and management of cloud-based applications and systems.

Distributed Tracing: Your Ultimate Guide

When all your IT systems, your apps and software, and your people are spread out, you need a way to see what’s happening in all these minute and separate interactions. That’s exactly what distributed tracing does. Distributed tracing is a way to tracking requests in applications and how those requests move from users and frontend devices through to backend services and databases.

Proactive error management: Collaborate effectively and work smarter with tags

Talking to many of our customers with different needs and use cases, one particular issue comes up all the time. When I’m seeing so many error groups in my app and so many error notifications in my inbox every day, it’s easy to end up feeling overwhelmed. I want a more proactive system to alert me to which errors need attention and when, so that I can stop getting buried. Does this hit home?

6 Reasons Your Data Lake Isn't Working Out

Since the data lake concept emerged more than a decade ago, data lakes have been pitched as the solution to many of the woes surrounding traditional data management solutions, like databases and data warehouses. Data lakes, we have been told, are more scalable, better able to accommodate widely varying types of data, cheaper to build and so on. Much of that is true, at least theoretically.

The Importance of Microservices

What are microservices? Microservices are a software approach that creates applications as a loose coupling of specific services or functions, rather than as a single, “monolithic” program. A microservice architecture increases the speed and reliability with which large, complex applications are delivered. What makes a service a microservice? Microservices are defined not by how they’re coded, but by how they fit into a broader system or solution.