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With our plans for InfluxDB 3.0 OSS laid out, both myself and the rest of the DevRel team have been actively searching for ecosystem platforms that would be logical integrations for the future of InfluxDB. One of these platforms is Quix! Quix is a comprehensive solution tailored for crafting, launching, and overseeing event streaming applications using Python. If you’re looking to sift through time series or event data in real-time for instant decision-making, Quix is your go-to.

Despite the rise of AI, the need for app developers isn’t going away. In fact, a 2023 ServiceNow-sponsored study by Pearson suggests approximately 95,000 new application developer roles will be added globally over the next five years. According to ServiceNow’s special report on the impact of AI on tech skills, based on the research, only about 20% of app developer tasks will be either automated or augmented by 2027.

The Slack messaging app is popular because it is easy to use, affordable, and highly customizable. With Slack, you can collaborate in teams and with colleagues in real-time, accessing files from anywhere. Slack is also widely used because it enables users to create and join channels. In addition, it integrates with multiple apps and services, working seamlessly with the tools you already use. In addition, Slack offers cost-effective pricing plans.

Organizations are moving to micro-services and container-based architectures because these modern environments enable speed, efficiency, availability, and the power to innovate and scale more quickly. However, when it comes to troubleshooting distributed cloud native applications, teams face a unique set of challenges due to the dynamic and decentralized nature of these systems.

Grafana is an open source visualization and monitoring solution for correlating and analyzing data from various sources. From time series graphs to heatmaps to 3D charts, it gives you lots of ways to untangle complex datasets. And while that’s incredibly powerful for observability, sometimes you’re looking for something fairly straightforward.

In recent months, we’ve talked a lot about how AppNeta by Broadcom offers active monitoring capabilities, and how they enable teams to rapidly troubleshoot issues across both internally managed networks and those managed by third parties, such as ISPs and cloud providers.