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What's a "normal" amount of Lambda functions?

2020 – what a ride it’s been! The state of the world this year has definitely been unpredictable and ever more surprising. So for some interesting insights and stability, we’ve turned to Lambdas. Namely, the state of Lambda functions in 2020! Ever wondered how others look without their face masks on? At Dashbird, we get to (metaphorically speaking) see what everyone looks like behind their serverless masks (read: stacks), and identify trends and patterns.

Infinity Welcomes Careful Versioning

Our distinguished competition took a puzzling position of “Imagine there’s no versions”. At Cloudsmith we think that’s crazy. Software versions are what makes software development possible. They make deployment possible. They make distribution possible. How else can you understand and navigate complex dependency trees or be sure your code will interact with a third party’s? Hint - you can’t! You must care about versions. And updates.

Is your online gaming platform "Chaos Monkey"-proof?

Try to imagine a bunch of monkeys running around your data center, pulling cables, trashing routers and wreaking havoc on your applications and infrastructure. Ever more crucial in these days of heated competition between online gaming operators, is player experience. Continuity of operations is “Uber-Alles” and avoiding churn, due to service disruption, is the organizational mantra.

Announcing InfluxDB IOx - The Future Core of InfluxDB Built with Rust and Arrow

On November 12, 2013, I gave the first public talk about InfluxDB titled: InfluxDB, an open source distributed time series database. In that talk I introduced InfluxDB and outlined what I meant when I talked about time series: specifically, it was any data that you might ask questions about over time.

Splunk Data Stream Processor & Splunk Phantom - The Need For Speed

What is the benefit of combining the power of Data Stream Processor (DSP) and Splunk Phantom? I will give you a hint - the answer involves speed and extensibility. In today's security landscape, speed to detect and mitigate security attacks or outages is of the utmost importance. A slow response to a security incident can have a detrimental impact to your organization's bottom line.

Get Your Role On with the Splunk Platform

First of all, thanks to everyone for the great response we received on the revival of this blog series. It validates what we believed all along — our customers take a great interest in the security of our products, and you enjoy learning more about our security features. So we are on that vibe, and we’re going to continue the updates because we have a lot to talk about.

Global Manufacturer Finds Its Sweet Spot For Network Monitoring With Exoprise CloudReady

To ensure a successful migration to Office 365 and the required network transformations, Exoprise CloudReady was selected and utilized by this global manufacturer to ensure excellent employee digital experiences, high availability, and superior performance. Download and read this case study to learn about all of the benefits this company receives in utilizing Exoprise solutions.

Edge-native Linux

Tech innovators use Linux to create intelligent devices for homes, factories, buildings, cities or vehicles etc… These things are deployed at the edge, in privacy sensitive or business critical environments. They require ever more compute to run ever smarter applications. A Linux distribution engineered for embedded devices running highly intelligent applications at edge scale is overdue. Let’s discuss what it takes to get there.

The Power of the Crowd

With the shift to Software-as-a-Service and Cloud nearly complete, organizations can optimize their end user experience and network operations with the power of crowd-sourcing. For decades, Internet-based sharing has improved the lives of billions. Now, companies can take advantage of sharing when it comes to protecting and optimizing the very the thing that connects us, the Internet!