Using RESTful APIs and Microservices to Work With Db2

The new Db2 Data Management Console is a free browser-based user interface included with Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. It's more than a graphical user interface to monitor, manage, run, and optimize Db2. It is a set of open RESTful APIs and microservices for Db2. 

Anything you can do in the user interface is also available through REST. You can also embed parts of the user interface into your own webpages, or Jupyter notebooks.

How Can APMs Help Software Teams Create Better User Experiences?

If a whole server becomes unresponsive, you need to know what kind of web activity caused it, and quickly. Application Performance Management, or APM, gives you this visibility, and more.

APM tools monitor and manage user experiences in software applications. Unlike crash reporting, which manages the detailed information on errors, APM tools surface problems on the server-side of your app.

ClickHouse Monitoring Key Metrics to Monitor

If you keep up to date with the latest developments in the world of databases, you are probably familiar with ClickHouse, an open-source columnar database management system designed for OLAP. Developed by Yandex, ClickHouse was open-sourced in 2016, which makes it one of the most recent database management systems to become widely available as an open-source tool.

Because ClickHouse supports real-time, high-speed reporting, it's a powerful tool, especially for modern DevOps teams who need instantaneous, fast, and flexible ways of analyzing data.

Cloud Security Is More Important Than Ever

Look at any list of 2019 predictions for IT and you’ll likely see expected advances in blockchain, IoT, AI, and edge computing and machine learning (ML), among many others.

What you don’t often see on the list is an issue that affects the very backbone of all these technologies: cloud security.