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Getting Started with PHP and InfluxDB

This article was written by Cameron Pavey, a full-stack dev living and working in Melbourne. Scroll below for this picture and bio. As a developer, it is likely that you will eventually run into a situation where a traditional relational database’s document stores don’t quite cut it. If you need to store points of data over time, you’ll likely need a time series database.

Role Of VR And AR In Field Service Management

The ultimate aim for all businesses is to deliver superlative customer service and earn goodwill in customer relationship management (CRM). And field service management is an extremely crucial part of CRM, and field service market is growing its demand from USD 3.0 billion in 2020 to USD 5.1 billion by 2025 (Markets and Markets). For many organizations across different industry verticals, field service plays a vital role in achieving customer satisfaction objectives and aids business expansion.

How healthcare company Roche innovated the employee experience

Founded in 1896, healthcare company Roche has innovation in its DNA. When you’re in the business of creating new medicine and diagnostic tests for millions of patients across the world, innovation can transform lives. My role is in our people and culture (P&C) team. For the past number of years, we’ve been looking for more agile, human-centric ways to improve collaboration and, ultimately, the patient and employee experience.

CapOps: Capacity Operations

Download this whitepaper to understand the rise of capacity operations (CapOps), an online, operational discipline with the mandate of "continuous resource optimization." By refocusing on the new, more dynamic capabilities of cloud and container infrastructure, CapOps enables organizations to once again ensure that there are sufficient resources to meet the demands of applications (without allocating too much), filling a gap left by the evolution of DevOps and FinOps practices.

Maximizing Your Reserved Instances (RIs) in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud The Definitive Guide

Public cloud providers have introduced reserved capacity commitments as a way to take control of your cloud costs. These are branded RIs in AWS, Azure calls them Reserved VM Instances, and Google Cloud has a similar concept of Committed Use Discounts. With the hundreds of different instance types available and not knowing your workload's exact requirements, how can you possibly take advantage of the benefits of RIs?

Unexpected: How we ended up product of the day on Producthunt with zero preparation

Josh Fetcher: “Product Hunt is a community where founders, product enthusiasts, and geeks go to check out the best new products and get attention for tech products that they've built.” If there is one sentence to define me it would be “done is better than perfect”. Saturday morning, after spent the last night released a new major version of our product while fixing bugs I came up with an idea: “Oh! It would be great time to make Qovery featured on Producthunt”.

Logz.io Extends Alert Communications via Microsoft Teams Integration

If you’re a DevOps practitioner working in a Microsoft-centric environment, you’ll be pleased to learn that Logz.io recently added support for the popular Teams communications hub to help broadcast pressing alerts and other monitoring data. The integration comes on the heels of making the Logz.io platform directly available from within the Azure Console and expands organizations’ abilities to communicate and share notifications about everything from log data to security events.

Jaeger vs Elastic APM - key differences, features and alternatives

Jaeger is an open-source end-to-end distributed tracing tool for microservices architecture. On the other hand, Elastic APM is an application performance monitoring system that is built on top of the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats). In this article, let's explore their key features, differences, and alternatives. Application performance monitoring is the process of keeping your app's health in check. APM tools enable you to be proactive about meeting the demands of your customers.