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7 Steps to Implement Better Business Observability

Business observability is like having x-ray vision for your business systems. It allows you to see and understand the inner workings of your operations through the data they generate—logs, metrics, and traces. Unlike traditional monitoring that detects issues, observability dives deeper to reveal why problems occur and their potential business impacts. Without it, you’re flying blind, hoping nothing breaks. It’s like driving a car without a dashboard.

Grokking DynamoDB with TypeScript

DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service provided by AWS. It is highly available, scalable, and a great fit for applications that need to handle large amounts of data with low latency. DynamoDB is a key-value document database, meaning that it is schema-less and can store any kind of data. It is also a serverless service, so you don’t have to worry about managing and scaling servers. In this take, we will model data in DynamoDB using TypeScript.

Snowflake Cortex AI Launches Cortex Guard to Implement LLM Safeguards

Over the last year, as Snowflake has focused on putting AI tools in the hands of its customers, we have prioritized easy, efficient and safe enterprise generative AI. With that in mind, we’re happy to announce the general availability of safety guardrails for Snowflake Cortex AI with Cortex Guard, a new feature that enables enterprises to easily implement safeguards that filter out potentially inappropriate or unsafe large language model (LLM) responses.

Why CSOs Should Embrace The Power of AI-Based Self-Healing Test Automation

85% of enterprises will prioritize a cloud-first approach by 2025, propelling their digital transformation initiatives – Gartner Businesses across industries are rapidly migrating to the cloud. This shift is crucial for fostering innovation, scaling efficiently, and responding to market demands with agility. Cloud adoption enhances performance and customer experiences, keeping companies competitive. However, despite these clear advantages, manual software testing can hinder digital acceleration.

How Countly's All-In-One Product Analytics Approach Can Benefit Your Business

Being inundated with tools and platforms to track, analyze, and optimize your products can be extremely overwhelming, and most of the time, you just get lost in the process of managing all the tools, without really achieving anything actionable. While having access to specialized tools can be beneficial, managing multiple analytics solutions can become counterproductive.

Streamlining Cloud Native App Development in Kubernetes #WordsUnplugged

As Kubernetes adoption grows, effective API management within this ecosystem becomes crucial. The Gateway API specification is a promising solution, addressing the challenges of integrating API management into Kubernetes' declarative, GitOps-driven environment. Although the initial response to the specification has been positive, its full impact and adoption are still unfolding. Vendors must balance the desire for interoperability with the need to differentiate their offerings, navigating complex market dynamics.

Zero Downtime Upgrades - Redefining Your Platform Upgrade Experience

Cloudera recently unveiled the latest version of Cloudera Private Cloud Base with the Zero Downtime Upgrade (ZDU) feature to enhance your user experience. The goal of ZDU is to make upgrades simpler for you and your stakeholders by increasing the availability of Cloudera’s services.

Unravel a Representative Vendor in the 2024 Gartner Market Guide for Data Observability Tools

Unravel Data, the first AI-enabled data actionability and FinOps platform built to address the speed and scale of modern data platforms, today announced it has been named in the 2024 Gartner Market Guide for Data Observability Tools. According to Gartner, “By 2026, 50% of enterprises implementing distributed data architectures will have adopted data observability tools to improve visibility over the state of the data landscape, up from less than 20% in 2024.