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Get Smart About Artificial Intelligence

Learn the basic concepts behind artificial intelligence and how it can help your organization
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A Blueprint for Splunk ITSI Alerting - Overview

Laying out a blueprint for enterprise-wide alerting across all of your services with Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
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Top 3 Best Practices for Configuring Splunk ITSI in a Large-Scale Environment

Splunker Kan Wu shares a sample of best practices for configuring a large-scale Splunk ITSI deployment
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Apache Pulsar Architecture: Designing for Streaming Performance and Scalability

A look at Pulsar’s multi-layer architecture and how it is fundamental to making Pulsar ideal for the performance, scalability and availability requirements of streaming use cases
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Mind The Gap! Understanding End-to-End Customer Journeys to Deliver Great Customer Experience

Bridging the gap between what companies perceive their customer journeys to be, and what actually happens.
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2018 State of DevOps Report: 6 Ways to Crush Your DevOps Strategy

Splunk and Puppet's 2018 State of DevOps Report provides key takeaways to improve your DevOps journey
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Splunk Metrics via Telegraf | Splunk

There are many ways of generating metrics and sending them to Splunk, but this blog post will focus on Telegraf as a means to achieve this.
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Rethinking Availability: Why You Need Collaborative Incident Response

A DevOps culture of collaboration and transparency leads to more reliable systems
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Real-Time Analytics with Pulsar Functions

Part 4 of our event-driven architecture blog series covers real-time analytics capabilities with Apache Pulsar Functions
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New in SignalFx: Convert SignalFx Charts to and From SignalFlow for Monitoring as Code

We’re excited to unveil a feature in SignalFx that allows users to easily view and edit charts using both the SignalFlow query language and our graphical UI.
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Comparing LogDevice and Apache Pulsar

In this post we take a technical look at how LogDevice's distributed log compares to the distributed log used in Apache Pulsar.
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In a Digital World Where the Speed of Innovation Matters, Are You Anchored Down by Legacy APM Agents?

Traditional APM solutions fail to provide reliable visibility into application performance because they rely on head-based sampling. The probabilistic and random nature of head-based sampling was good enough for legacy monolithic applications because of their predictable performance patterns...
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Event Processing Design Patterns with Pulsar Functions

Part 3 of our Event-Driven Architecture series covers common event processing design patterns with Apache Pulsar Functions.
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Access Patterns and Tiered Storage in Apache Pulsar

In this post we look at how Apache Pulsar handles the common access patterns of messaging and how that enables tiered storage.
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Configuring Apache Pulsar Tiered Storage with Amazon S3

This post walks through the steps in configuring Apache Pulsar tiered storage to offload data to Amazon S3.
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Simple Event Processing with Apache Pulsar Functions

Part 2 of our blog series on event-driven architecture covers simple event processing techniques and best practices using Apache Pulsar Functions
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Benefits of Predictive IT

Go from reactive to predictive IT and get ahead of issues before they arise with Splunk IT Service Intelligence
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A Major Step Forward for Apache Pulsar: New Top-Level Apache Project

A look at the journey of Apache Pulsar, from solving problems at Yahoo! to a new solution for streaming and messaging.
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Creating Work Queues with Apache Kafka and Apache Pulsar

Jesse Anderson of Big Data Institute takes a look at use cases for work queues and a comparison of using Apache Pulsar and Apache Kafka to implement work queues.
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Introducing Pulsar IO

Jerry provides an overview of Pulsar IO, a framework for moving data into and out of Apache Pulsar, explaining how it works and how to build connectors using Pulsar IO.