As a recovering practitioner, one of the things I was always less than thrilled to do was patching. I dreaded having to run updates, ensure everything was configured correctly, and finding windows of time to reboot without knocking an application offline. Just like your cloud workloads — everything changes when it has to be done at scale. Kubernetes has always been built around the DevOps concepts of rapid development, delivery, and iteration.

As organizations continue to operate in an increasingly digitized fashion, ensuring network uptime and performance only keeps getting more critical. Network performance issues and downtime aren’t just a concern for network teams, they’re critical to the entire business. Network downtime is costly.

Effective communication lies at the heart of successful teamwork, and SIGNL4 emerges as a powerful tool crafted to elevate collaboration within teams. In this blog post, we will explore five of the often small but all the more intuitive features that distinguish SIGNL4, positioning it as the preferred solution for teams aiming to enhance productivity and streamline communication.

The teams that keep IT services running all share one thing: a need for data and knowledge that spans their systems and tools. Yet, they often lack the vital cross-system context necessary to analyze and collaborate effectively to remediate incidents quickly. BigPanda is proud to announce new features and capabilities that enable you to leverage historical incident records and institutional knowledge.

Context is fundamental to well-run tech operations, which require an understanding of systems, services, architectures, and teams to interpret the real-time data streaming in from observability and change systems. The delivery of context is crucial for effective operations performance. And it’s a universally important skill set for tech Ops teams to master.

As we’ve already shared, Elastic is committed to helping OpenTelemetry (OTel) succeed, which means, in some cases, building distributions of language SDKs. Elastic is strategically standardizing on OTel for observability and security data collection. Additionally, Elastic is committed to working with the OTel community to become the best data collection infrastructure for the observability ecosystem.

Jonny Harris is a WordPress core contributor and committer based in the UK and a member of the WordPress Performance Initiative. This group teams up with Google and Blackfire to optimize the performance of the PHP framework that powers an estimated 43% of the world’s applications. Jonny has been coding with WordPress since 2006 when, at the age of 16, he wanted to start blogging. He gave WordPress a try as it was then and still is today, the leading open-source blogging framework.

Starting today, Checkly users can send their traces from synthetics checks to Coralogix to view in-depth synthetic user data along with back-end APM based tracing. This gives SRE’s and Operations engineers a new insight into how the system is responding to automated synthetic tests of your service. For Checkly users, integrating with Coralogix data means it’s easy to correlate end-to-end user experience with backend performance, and track poor performance to its root cause.

Patience is a virtue," they say. But when it comes to our beloved Internet, our patience wears thin faster than a cheetah on roller skates. We've all experienced it: that frustrating moment when our network connection decides to hit the snooze button and crawl along at a snail's pace. It's not a complete blackout, but it might as well be. We find ourselves stuck in a digital twilight zone, desperately longing for the days when dial-up was just a distant memory.