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The Platform Engineer Role Explained: Who Is a Platform Engineer?

Poorly designed infrastructure leaves your applications and networks vulnerable to cyberattacks and data breaches. This puts the company at significant risk: the average cost of a data breach reached a record high $4.35 million in 2022. This is where companies bring in platform engineers. A platform engineer is a professional who ensures that security protocols and best practices are in place to protect against potential security threats.

Internet Trends in 2023: Mary Meeker, Stats, Trends & Predictions

Before the internet, how did trends happen? If no one documented trends, were there trends? Today’s trends go from on-screen to IRL in a split second, as influencers, international brands and regular people like you and me all meet on social media to see the next cutting edge. For over twenty years, one person was closely tied to the concept of internet trends: Mary Meeker.

Technical Education Can Drive Long Term Success for Organizations

Technology drives so many aspects of our lives in today’s fast paced world. Keeping up with how technology helps us in our work and personal lives is challenging and it's sometimes unclear as to how to go about learning new technology skills to drive business resilience across an organization.

The Best Data Science & Data Analytics Certifications for 2023: Beginner To Advanced

As data science and data analytics become integral to our everyday lives, the demand for certifications in this field is at an all-time high. There are many different paths to pursue a certification in these areas — still, some stand out above the rest. In this blog post, we will explore the top 5 data science and analytics certifications that are essential for anyone looking to build a strong career in this field.

Getting Data In: 4 Ways to Ingest Data into Splunk

The first step to unlocking the power of Splunk is to get access to your data. No matter what data type or structure it is, Splunk can read it. Watch this video to learn about the four main ways to get your data into Splunk. Including, securely sending lossless data streams by installing the Universal Forwarder on your Linux or Windows host, easily ingesting cloud data sources (e.g., AWS, Azure, and GCP) via Guided Data Onboarding, creating data inputs for virtually any TCP or UDP data traffic, and using the HTTP Event Collector (HEC) to ingest web and app data.

Cloud Monitoring Console's Health Dashboard: Maximize Your Monitoring Efficiency

Are you a Splunk Cloud admin tired of sifting through various tools and dashboards to monitor the health of your Splunk Cloud deployment? Do you often find yourself wondering what actions you can take to keep your Splunk Cloud deployment running smoothly? Are you looking for ways to be alerted before something impacts your deployment performance? Look no further than the Cloud Monitoring Console's Health Dashboard!