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The 4 Golden Signals: All You Need to Know

As a team, we have spent many years troubleshooting performance problems in production systems. Applications have become so complex that you need a standard methodology to understand performance. Our approach to this problem is called the Golden Signals. By measuring these signals and paying very close attention to these four key metrics, providers can simplify even the most complex systems into an understandable corpus of services and systems.

Driving Real Business Value from AI: Value-Focused Data Leaders to Watch in 2025

As organizations mature in their execution of data and AI initiatives, a burning question remains: How do we measure the effectiveness of our teams and our impact on the business? This isn’t the perennial “What’s my data worth?” dilemma often asked rhetorically and answered theoretically. Today’s challenge is concrete: to define and track the metrics used to justify continued investment in data and AI innovation.

What Is a Singleton? A Detailed Overview

One of the most well-known design patterns, singleton ensures the existence of a single instance of a given class during the life of an application. What makes this pattern important and useful? Moreover, what is a design pattern? How do they work? How and when should I use singleton? These questions, plus use cases and examples are covered in detail in this detailed guide.

The Power of Data Streaming in Digital-Native Organizations: A Look Inside AppDirect

In today’s fast-paced technological landscape, staying ahead means more than just keeping up with the latest trends—it requires a fundamental shift in how businesses operate in increasingly digital spaces. AppDirect, a digital-native company at the forefront of innovation, has fully embraced this digital paradigm, aligning itself with modern business approaches that enhance both operational efficiency and customer experience.

5 Continuous Improvement Process Methods for IT Leaders

The reason to adopt a continuous improvement process methodology is simple: incremental and ongoing changes to business processes result in better business outcomes. Many organizations think they need to make big, broad changes to have a meaningful impact. But this kind of change is time consuming and difficult to measure. Continuous improvement efforts are about doing the opposite—small, gradual changes that lead to a sweeping sea change over time.

AWS ETL; Everything You Need to Know

As a data engineer who has designed and managed ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, I've witnessed firsthand the transformative impact of cloud-based solutions on data integration. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a suite of tools that streamline ETL workflows, enabling mid-market companies to move the big data to data stores such as Snowflake, data lake from different sources depending on use cases.

Key Challenges with Database Pipelines

As a data engineer who has worked on building and managing various technical aspects of data pipelines over the years, I've navigated the intricate landscape of data integration, transformation, and analysis. In mid-market companies, where data-driven decision-making is pivotal, constructing efficient and reliable database pipelines allows you to store data in cloud data warehouses and carry out better data analysis or machine learning models.

On-Call Oasis: Creating a Peaceful Experience, Especially During the Holidays

Kong Konnect is Kong’s infrastructural SaaS solution. We run the control planes and API management applications for the data planes (API gateway and mesh) that are run by our customers to power their APIs. Some of the most critical traffic in the world goes through these data planes. The criticality of Konnect and therefore our customer’s uptime expectations of Konnect are very high.

Cypress Test Plan Guide: Examples & Best Practices

In today's dynamic web development landscape, efficient test planning has become crucial for delivering high-quality applications. As we introduced in our post " Maintaining End-to-End Testing using Cypress with TestQuality", Cypress has emerged as a leading modern testing framework, offering real-time testing capabilities and superior developer experience.