In 2024, simply having an observability practice is a given. In this era of observability, a high-functioning team will set leaders apart from their peers. Leading observability practitioners don’t fix issues by putting hundreds of people into a virtual room, or frantically messaging in a temporary Slack channel to find root causes. Because leaders embed observability into their development practices early, a feature launch is a quiet non-event.

Transforming retail: Aiven and AWS empower businesses with real-time data insights for better customer experiences. We’re excited to announce that Aiven has achieved the prestigious AWS Retail Competency, in the category of Advanced Data Insights. Achieving the AWS Retail Competency recognizes Aiven’s expertise in providing customers with software solutions that empower retailers to gain valuable data insights to drive business success.

As IT environments continue to expand in scope and complexity, understanding their impact on organizations is more important than ever. That’s why ScienceLogic commissioned research specialist Vanson Bourne to survey 400 IT operations professionals across the USA, UK, Germany, and Canada with the goal of understanding the challenges they’re facing and the technologies—including automation, AI, and generative AI—they’re using to overcome them.

When it comes to observability, different people have different levels of expertise. Some can readily rip out 50-line PromQL queries, complete with masterful usage of functions like group_left and label_replace.

With the increasing adoption of Kubernetes in recent years, there are various means and tools for achieving continuous delivery to Kubernetes. While it is possible to create a consistent CI/CD pipeline up to deploying to Kubernetes using CI/CD tools like CircleCI, there has been a rise in cases combining dedicated CD tools like FluxCD and ArgoCD to achieve this as well. A common aspect among these CD-dedicated tools is their adoption of GitOps.

Azure OpenAI Service is Microsoft’s fully managed platform for deploying generative AI services powered by OpenAI. Azure OpenAI Service provides access to models including GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, DALLE-3, and the Embeddings model series, alongside the enterprise security, governance, and infrastructure capabilities of Azure.

The launch of Ubuntu in 2004 was a step-change for everyday users and developers everywhere. Nicknamed “Ubuntu Linux” in its early days, to differentiate it from its various cousins in the Linux world, it has since lost the need for its surname and grown to become a powerful force. Besides being used by millions of home users, Ubuntu is widely used in the development and business world. As developers have become a driving force of innovation, so has Ubuntu.

Check out these straightforward tips to manage your metrics and logs better. You can keep your monitoring effective while cutting down on costs!

Your website’s performance can make or break your business. Slow load times, crashes under pressure, and a poor user experience can cost you customers, reduce your search engine rankings, and hurt your bottom line. That’s why monitoring and testing your site’s performance is critical—but not all performance monitoring is the same. At Request Metrics, we focus on Real User Monitoring (RUM), which shows you how real users are experiencing your website in real-time.

Facilitating teamwork is often regarded as a matter for HR, while technology is seen as solely an infrastructural concern. But is it really as simple as that? In Tool Sprawl and How To Stop It, we exposed the productivity costs of poorly integrated tools. Now, let’s examine what these conditions can do to hinder collaboration.