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OpenTelemetry and Grafana Labs: What's new and what's next

A new year is a natural time to reflect on past achievements — and consider future aspirations. When I think about the observability space, specifically, in 2023, OpenTelemetry felt omnipresent. It was a hot topic at every industry event, with at least one dedicated talk at ObservabilityCON, Monitorama, PromCon, and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, both NA and EU. A notable highlight from KubeCon was OpenTelemetry going GA, marking a significant milestone in the project’s development.

Supercharge Your Azure Savings Strategy with Azure Dev/Test Subscription

An Azure subscription is a fundamental concept in the billing and management structure of Microsoft Azure. It serves as an agreement with Microsoft to use Azure services, where the services used are either paid for or are part of a free offer.

Enhancing Service Reliability: Uniting Rootly's Incident Management and Backstage's Software Catalog

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring the reliability of services is paramount for businesses aiming to deliver seamless user experiences. However, as the complexity of companies' environments grows, ensuring your services, infrastructure and applications are reliable and resilient to failure is challenging. It’s naive to think all services and infrastructure are operating 100% as designed.

Cloud Cost Incidents: Catching Cost Calamities on Time

Cloud cost management, also referred to as cloud cost optimization, is the process of managing and controlling a company’s spending on cloud services. This can be achieved through a variety of methods, such as usage monitoring, resource optimization, and cost forecasting. The first step in managing cloud costs is to understand how cloud resources are being used. This involves tracking the usage of each service and identifying any trends or patterns.

8 Powerful CLI Extensions on GitHub in 2024

The command line interface (CLI) has its roots embedded in the early eras of computing, back when storage was measured not in gigabytes, but in square feet of room space. Unlike today’s icon-filled screens, the CLI offers a text-only portal into the depths of a computer, using typed commands to perform operations. This simplicity masked an underlying robustness and efficiency, which has endeared it to generations of developers.

Zurich, a new low-carbon-powered public region, now available on Platform.sh

The new Platform.sh Swiss public region empowers organizations to meet sustainability, data localization, and compliance requirements in the Zurich Google Cloud region. Our new public region has been launched in response to increasing demand from Swiss businesses—and those with an international footprint doing business in Switzerland—that need to ensure their data is held locally.

Mastering the Cloud Migration: The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Migration Tools

Clouds aren’t magical data farms in the sky; they’re the backbone of modern infrastructure. Whether you’re using a public cloud, private cloud, or a mix of both, migrating to cloud-based infrastructure is not just a trend; it’s a strategic move for businesses seeking agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Cloud migration—moving data, applications, and workloads to the cloud (or between clouds)—is a critical step in this transformation.