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When it comes to distributed network monitoring, very few tools come close to exhausting engineers\' needs. You\'ll keep thinking like this until you discover Datadog. Whether you\'re just getting started on the Datadog journey or...

In an earlier post, we discussed what application security is and why it\'s important. That was covering the basics. So, what next? Once you know the importance of application security, you should of course work...

SonarQube is a platform for analyzing software for bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells. In addition to performing a variety of static analysis checks on your source, it presents the results in the form of rich...

What Is Static Testing? Static testing is a type of testing that\'s performed on a piece of software without executing the actual code. During testing, we review and validate the product and its supporting documents....

The massive outbreak in the generation of data has propelled advancements in the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Although data mining has been around for a longer period of time, there\'s been a...

Everything we touch these days seems to create huge volumes of data. While buzz words like “big data” may have died off, the data itself remains. And when it comes to understanding, processing, analyzing, and...

Agile methodologies are a set of frameworks that help manage projects in an iterative fashion. These methods focus on communication and getting products out there, instead of spending months on gathering requirements. This software development...

While there might be a lot of data in your Splunk server(s), it’s useless if you can’t get valuable information from Splunk. One way to get value from data is by using dashboards. In Splunk,...

Sometimes, small things can cause big problems. You make a move that you think is going to make things easier, but while that can happen, it can also make things harder. That’s the case with...

In 2016, RedMonk described the \"rise and rise\" of a powerful asynchronous messaging technology called Apache Kafka. Now—more than three years later—Apache Kafka is still on the rise as a very popular distributed messaging system....

Data governance is a big topic, and rolling out an implementation is often an enormous undertaking. If you’re the person responsible for your organization’s data governance implementation, you recognize there are scores of ways to...

Although we’re still just getting used to DevOps, there’s a new Ops kid on the block. And this kid picks up where DevOps left off, providing better operations and monitoring through increased data processing and...