Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week we are exploring Internet of Behavior, which can help organizations make the best decisions in providing a customized experience to customers. Design credits – Akshaya Understanding human behavior to provide the best customer experience has been a long-standing goal for marketers and organizations.

Welcome to the Fall 2022 edition of Open Source Matters: our regular publication about the latest happenings in open source! Let’s dive into the news.

Whether you know it or not, APIs (application programming interfaces) significantly impact our relationship with technology, allowing applications to share and exchange data seamlessly so we can access multiple pieces of information from a single source. Without API technology, we'd likely get lost far more often (APIs are fundamental to navigation apps like Google Maps), and booking a vacation would be much more complicated (travel booking sites rely heavily on API tech, too).

MQTT is becoming the standard protocol for applications that operate in environments where network connectivity is intermittent or unreliable, reducing bandwidth usage is a priority, or where hardware resources are limited. In this post you will learn about some specific use cases where businesses are seeing value from making MQTT part of their tech stack.

September 21st, 2022 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announces today that it has joined the Connectivity Standards Alliance as a participant member. In this role, Canonical will help the alliance to develop open standards for the Internet of Things (IoT) and advocate for the role of open-source software in this domain. Canonical is the first company offering a major independent Linux distribution to join the alliance.

Enterprises struggle to bring AI and automation to the edge due to strict requirements and regulations across verticals. Long-term support, zero-trust security, and built-in functional safety are only a few challenges faced by players who wish to accelerate their technology adoption.