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Top tips: Can AI slash data center energy costs?

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list a few tips to explore these trends. This week, we’ll discuss how we can make data centers more energy efficient. Who knew that AI could cut energy costs? AI is everywhere, and rightfully so—with applications ranging from everyday life to IT, AI has embedded itself into our culture. Now, it can be an integral part of our data centers, too!

Exploring Application Performance Monitoring - Importance and Open-Source Options

For any digital business today, keeping applications running smoothly and efficiently is a no-brainer. Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is an invaluable process in that regard, helping teams track the performance and health of their software applications. APM involves the use of tools and practices to detect, diagnose, and resolve performance issues in real-time, thereby ensuring optimal user experiences.

How to Reliably Block AI Crawlers Using HAProxy Enterprise

The robots.txt file is a time-honored point of control for website publishers to assert whether or not their websites should be crawled by bots of various kinds. However, it turns out that AI crawlers from large language model (LLM) companies often ignore the contents of robots.txt and crawl your site regardless.

Azure API Management: Security, Governance, and the Future of APIs

This episode of "INTEGRATE expert voices - Unplugged" series from the Azure on Air podcast, dives deep into Azure API Management with Mike Budzynski, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft. Discover the latest features, best practices for API governance, and insights into the future of API management. Also, learn about the evolution of API management, how to implement proper security measures, and the exciting new features coming to Azure API Management. Gain valuable insights into managing and securing your APIs effectively.

A Schematic Review Checklist for Firmware Engineers

Schematic reviews are a part of the hardware development cycle in many if not most, hardware development companies. Typically led by the electrical engineering team, it is easy to overlook design issues that will be important to the firmware team. This post tells of a few stories of design misses that I have made and puts some common lessons learned into a checklist for other firmware engineers.

A complete guide to LLM observability with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Cloud

In the fast-paced world of technology, change is constant — and nowhere is that more evident today than in the flood of new features and advancements involving large language models (LLMs). They power various applications, from chat bots to advanced copilots. And as these LLMs and applications become more sophisticated, it will be vital that they work well and reliably. This is where observability, with the help of OpenTelemetry (using OpenLIT), plays an essential role.

Announcing Session Replay for Mobile - in Open Beta

Session Replay for iOS, Android, and React Native is now in open beta. If you already know what Session Replay is, amazing – click the link and update your SDK to start getting video-like reproductions of where your users are experiencing rage-inducing issues. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, even better. Let me tell you a story.

Sustainable Innovations That Will Transform the Transportation Industry

In the last few years, the transportation industry has started to realize the impact it has on our environment. According to the Center for Biological Diversity, it has been long linked to climate change. The EPA stated that 29% of all greenhouse gas emissions in America came from transportation. Commercial ships, aircraft, boats, and trains all contribute to this. Statista reports that America produced 1.85 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (GtCO2) in 2023.