Node.js got an enterprise boost today, as NodeSource released a beta version of its NSolid platform. The new platform is based on Linux containers, and Kubernetes. Developers can use NSolid as their deployment platform for Node.js applications within a Kubernetes cluster. The benefit of using the NSolid platform is that it can be plugged into … continue reading
It’s one thing for organizations to look at periodic alerts from their IT infrastructure, triage them and then remediate the problem (if necessary). In today’s Big Data world, though, there might be as many as 70,000 alerts coming through. That makes effective response nearly impossible. Assaf Resnick recognized this problem when he founded BigPanda in … continue reading
While there are several architectural and modern application life-cycle changes, one thing that is growing exponentially is machine data. With the right visibility, machine data could help digital businesses keep up with their modern applications by giving them access to metrics data in real-time continuous intelligence. To help companies learn from machine data, Sumo Logic, … continue reading
Raintank, the open SaaS monitoring company behind Grafana, has been busy with the beta release of Grafana 3.0, a strategic collaboration between raintank and Intel, and the beta launch of Grafana.net. Grafana was created in 2014 by raintank cofounder Torkel Ödegaard, and it has become the de facto open-source solution for visualizing cloud telemetry data, … continue reading
Databricks has announced the general availability of Apache Spark 1.4, including SparkR, a new R API for data scientists. Version 1.4 of the open-source Big Data processing and streaming engine also enhances Spark’s DataFrame API features, Python 3 support, a component upgrade past alpha for Spark’s machine learning pipeline, and new visualization and monitoring capabilities … continue reading