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k6 Load Testing Debugging Using a Web Proxy

One of the more challenging aspects of load testing happens very early on: getting your scripts working. When you run your scripts, you may observe unexpected error status codes (typically in the 4xx-5xx status code range). Other times, you'll run your script and see it receive the expected responses (usually HTTP 200), yet the "thing" your script is meant to create simply doesn't show up anywhere, like on the database or as a record on the site. You start wondering: why on earth is that?

Nameserver: What is It? How Does It Work? Why It is Important to Your Website?

You may have come across the word "nameserver" if you maintain your own website. You may, however, have no true idea of what one is or how it works. Knowing a little about the “nameserver” concept can help you manage your website. Simply said, nameservers help browsers in establishing links between URLs and websites. They're essential since we'd have to memorize IP addresses to visit websites if we didn't have them.

Logit.io Launch New ELK Stack Dashboard Layout

We are pleased to announce our newly launched dashboard design which we have created to assist cross team collaboration for users that prefer to use multiple Stacks per account. We understand that Cybersecurity specialists, Sysadmins, Product owners, developers and CTOs may all have different requirements for using our platform for logs and metrics analysis.

Understanding Operational Analytics

Most companies have had to adjust to the big data push. Some have learned to fully leverage data to get a comprehensive view of their business and make long-term plans for their processes. However, it can be a long way from there to fueling minute-by-minute processes with quality data. Operational analytics allows your company to be at its most effective on a real-time basis. How does operational analytics (also called continuous analytics) offer an advantage to your company and how do you implement it?

How Cloudera Helps Realize and Accelerate Successful Data Product Strategies

In the first part of this series , I outlined the prerequisites for a modern Enterprise Data Platform to enable complex data product strategies that address the needs of multiple target segments and deliver strong profit margins as the data product portfolio expands in scope and complexity: With this article, I will dive into the specific capabilities of the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) that has helped organizations to meet the aforementioned prerequisite capabilities and fulfill a successful data prod

The Not-So-Secret Sauce for Successful Cloud Migration

Over the last year, perhaps unsurprisingly, increasing numbers of companies have made the jump to the cloud. It’s become a necessary move for so many businesses. But, as I discussed with Joe DosSantos on the latest episode of Data Brilliant – the rewards are abundant, but the journey is not always straight forward.

What is eventual consistency and why should you care about it?

Distributed systems have unlocked high performance at a large scale and low latency. You can run your applications worldwide from the comfort of your Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform in California, but the user adding an item to their shopping cart in Japan will not notice any delay or system faults. However, distributed systems - and specifically distributed database systems - also malfunction.

What is the CAP theorem?

In the modern age, everything runs on the cloud. The majority of modern applications are written with cloud technologies - they use public cloud providers for DNS, distributed caching, and distributed data stores. Cloud solutions are so popular among engineers because of their many advantages: But distributed systems are not impervious to breaking. Foursquare’s example is testimony that even the great and mighty experience failure within distributed systems.