#instrumentation

#instrumentation

With more borrowers using mobile devices to participate in the mortgage process, we're offering an intuitive tablet-based experience.Why limit borrowers to eClosing only when they have access to a desktop or laptop computer?By offering the flexibility to eClose using any device, Total eClose makes the eClosing process, including Remote Online Notarization (RON), even simpler.

An artist's impression of an aging star swelling up and beginning to engulf a planet, much like the Sun will do in about 5 billion years.K. Miller/R.Hurt (Caltech/IPAC) Astronomers have gotten a sneak peek at what could be Earth's ultimate fate in about 5 billion years when the sun reaches the end of its life and engulfs the solar system's inner planets including our own.

Women and older people are being failed by our crash test dummies, according to the US Government Accountability Office.The GAO has just published a new report on the topic and is concerned that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has not done enough to fill knowledge or research gaps that would make our vehicles safer for those more-vulnerable classes of occupants.

When monitoring and troubleshooting modern applications, having a complete view of requests across your entire system has become more critical than ever before.This is where distributed tracing comes in.With distributed tracing, which is included with New Relic application performance monitoring (APM), you can quickly understand complex problems, identify bottlenecks, and resolve issues without additional configuration.

Istio is an open source service mesh that layers transparently onto existing distributed applications.Tracing is an important feature to detect issues early time and to decrease troubleshooting time.This article carries on my previous article Multi-hop tracing with OpenTelemetry in Golang on Kubernetes with Istio service mesh network.

Swifties, brace yourselves: Taylor Swift has new music on the horizon.Well, sort of.It's no secret the world has been in a lavender haze since Swift released last year.Now, the pop singer is offering stans a break from endlessly looping the album thanks to an upcoming collaboration with The National.

How does Prometheus collect data?A Prometheus server collects metrics data from its targets using a pull model over HTTP.But what exactly is a pull model, and how is it different from a push model?Push versus pull model
On a basic level, it really is as simple as it sounds.A Prometheus server pulls telemetry data from somewhere else.

Sound artist Liew Niyomkarn's latest album wove poignant field recordings from her rural birthplace in northern Thailand with pulsing synths and plucked lyres to create a meditative reimagining of home.Recorded between Thailand and her current base in Antwerp, the album plays like a nostalgic blur of memory music.

Phil Elverum has released a new song called "Huge Fire" under his Mount Eerie moniker.Stream it below.A slow-burner of a track, "Huge Fire" finds Elverum describing the weight of carrying years of emotional baggage."Nothing but me and all this shattered wood I've been pulling," he sings over swirling instrumentation.

Thom Bell, the prolific producer, songwriter and arranger who, as an architect of the lush Philadelphia sound of the late 1960s and '70s, was a driving force behind landmark R&B recordings by the Spinners, the Delfonics and the Stylistics, died on Thursday at his home in Bellingham, Wash.He was 79.

Seymour Press, who for more than 60 years served an important role  though one that went largely unnoticed by audiences  in dozens of Broadway and Off Broadway shows, first as a member of pit orchestras and later as the person who assembled those orchestras, died on Monday at an assisted living facility in Hackettstown, N.J.

††† (Crosses) - the duo featuring Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno and producer/multi-instrumentalist Shaun Lopez - have released a cover of '80s pop singer George Michael 's "One More Try," coupled with an animated visualizer.The George Michael tune is part of the duo's annual tradition of releasing a cover around the holidays.

I believe that an essential element of platform engineering is listening to what your customers and community needs and wants, and delivering on those.And for our teams in the centralized platform and DevOps practice, our customers are Sportradar's developers.We employ platform engineering in four ways at Sportradar.
1. Restructure teams for self-sufficiency
At Sportradar, we draw on the Spotify model, which relies on each squad-including DevOps-having the team expertise necessary to build features and apps for their end-user base.

In the opening moments of the HBO documentary series Branson, Richard Branson looks into the camera to say goodbye.It's always strange recording something when you're alive and healthy, he said, knowing the only reason this video will be seen is if something has gone awry.Branson, a serial entrepreneur whose businesses include the aerospace company Virgin Galactic, has bid farewell before when he thought he needed to prepare for the worst  I've written letters to my children and my grandchildren on a number of occasions, he said in a phone interview last month  but in this case, it was 16 days before he tried spaceflight.

Design success is not as easily measurable as roles that are driven primarily by numbers, such as recruitment or sales.If good design is often viewed as subjective, how do designers decide if a design was successful or not?Well, a simple way to gauge your designs is to get feedback from your users.Conducting qualitative studies can generate insights into the usability of your product.

Holly Herndon  AI-powered image generators have been getting most of the press recently.But musical machine learning models have quietly been making great strides in recent years.Holly Herndon has been at the forefront of that revolution.She co-developed (along with partner Mat Dryhurst) Spawn, a singing neural network, for her last album and released Holly+ (in partnership with Never Before Heard Sounds) to the public last year, which allows anyone to use a model of Holly's voice.

Understanding software complexity
To understand why distributed tracing is so important, it's helpful to look at the cloud platforms, containerization, and container orchestration that forward-thinking software organizations use to quickly build, scale, and operate business-critical applications.Despite the many advantages of software architectures built on microservices and serverless, the exploding number of components and their diversity in language, operating environment, and ownership creates a huge new burden for teams trying to manage them.