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Microservices: From System of Record to System of Action

Discover the evolution of data in enterprise systems from systems of record to systems of action and the importance of both the data layer and event layer for microservices-based applications.
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How to Add and Remove Nodes in Apache Pulsar

See how easy it is to add and remove nodes in Apache Pulsar without the need to rebalance data like other messaging systems such as Apache Kafka.
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Ensuring Success with Splunk ITSI - Part 3: Adaptive Thresholding

Advanced threshold and alerting guidance to produce trusted alerts from ITSIs machine learning adaptive thresholds configuration
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How to Migrate Apache Kafka Applications to Apache Pulsar

In this post and accompanying video tutorial, Streamlio engineer and co-founder Sijie Guo shows you how to migrate an Apache Kafka application to Apache Pulsar with no code changes using the Kafka API wrapper.
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Why You Should Adopt a Multi-Tenant Solution for Real-Time Applications

Dive into what multi-tenancy is, why it’s so important, and why Apache Pulsar provides an extremely compelling model of multi-tenancy.
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Ensuring Success with Splunk ITSI - Part 2: Alerting Basics

Configuring Splunk IT Service Intelligence to produce accurate and trusted alerts
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Comparing Pulsar and Kafka: How a Segment-Based Architecture Delivers Better Performance, Scalability, and Resilience

In this second post in a series, Sijie Guo compares Apache Pulsar and Apache Kafka's storage and failure recovery models.
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Why ITOps Need to Rage WITH the Machine (Learning)

Why trust in machine learning can help IT professionals do higher value tasks
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Operational Intelligence for Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Platform is rapidly becoming an integral part of the evolving cloud landscape. GCP is continually adding new services and enhancing existing ones, establishing leadership in areas such as machine learning, and attracting both businesses making their first move to the cloud as well as those pursuing...
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Cursors in Apache Pulsar

In this post and accompanying video, Ivan Kelly, PMC member for Apache BookKeeper and engineer at Streamlio, discusses how the Apache Pulsar messaging system uses durably stored cursors (an enhanced form of offset) to provide fault-tolerant messaging.
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Exactly Once Is NOT Exactly the Same

In this post, we will take a look at different processing semantics for stream processing engines. We will examine what exactly-once processing semantics actually guarantees and the differences in the implementations of exactly-once processing semantics. Here at Streamlio, we have standardized on ‘effectively-once’ as our terminology, and we’ll explain why.
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Introduction to Apache BookKeeper

A scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency log storage service optimized for real-time workloads
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More Takeaways from the 2017 State of DevOps Report

More Takeaways from the 2017 State of DevOps Report + Upcoming Webinar
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Extend Splunk ITSI with the New xMatters Integration

Reduce your time to respond to incidents with xMatters and Splunk IT Service Intelligence
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Turning IT Errors into Marketing Opportunities with Splunk and Adobe Campaign

How machine data, Splunk and Adobe Campaign can benefit the entire business by improvig customer experience and addressing the leaky funnel.
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Three Recurring Themes from CIO Perspectives Conference in Boston

More than 100 IT executives attended CIO Perspectives Boston to discuss the challenges of today's game-changing technologies
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Lessons Learned From Monitoring Next Gen Infrastructure

Lessons Learned From Monitoring Next Gen Infrastructure
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Lightning Fast Monitoring Against Lightning Fast Outages

Fast-evolving anomalies can quickly turn into outages. If your monitoring system is too slow, or not granular enough, you may not be able to catch the anomaly in time. Even when you do, manual remediation steps may not be put in place fast enough to prevent the outage. In this blog, we explore what it takes...
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SignalFx Successfully Completes SOC 2 Type 2 Report

In reaffirming our commitment of security and availability to our customers and potential customers, we are excited to announce the successful completion of the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 2 report. Independent auditor Schellman & Company, thoroughly evaluated how SignalFx demonstrates excellence...
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Deliver Deeper Operational Intelligence: Introducing Alert Functions Library Through SignalFx API

Monitoring cloud applications requires ingesting and analyzing data from hundreds to thousands of web services, many of which employ scale-out, elastic architectures built on cloud infrastructure, containers, and applications. Traditional approaches to setting alerting conditions have been confined to using charts...
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Linking operational data with customer feedback to drive improved Customer Experience

Correlating operational data with customer feedback to understand what drives the customer experience