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Local preview environments are transforming how developers test and validate code changes before merging them into the main codebase. Acting as temporary cloud environments, they provide a production-like setting where new features and bug fixes can be tested in isolation, catching issues early and streamlining the development code review process. These environments are crucial for enhancing development velocity, especially in CI/CD workflows used by DevOps engineers and QA teams.

Telecom Talks 2024, held on May 8 at Ravenswood Avenue in Menlo Park, was a landmark event that brought together the brightest minds and leading companies in the telecommunications industry. This year’s event focused on the theme of digital transformation, exploring how cutting-edge technologies and innovative solutions are reshaping the telecom landscape. Industry experts, analysts, technology providers, and telecom operators came together to share insights and forge new collaborations.

While AWS offers significant benefits compared to traditional on-premise infrastructure, its inherent elasticity and scalability tend to create uncontrolled costs. AWS costs can be opaque and difficult to analyze, and without a system for identifying the source of costs and managing them, they can quickly undermine profit margins. However, several tools have emerged to help organizations manage and optimize their costs over the past few years.

Exciting news: it’s now possible to build a custom distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector and remotely manage it with BindPlane. Though not all of BindPlane’s capabilities are available when managing a custom distribution (yet), it’s #prettycool, as it cracks open the door for teams looking to BYOF (bring your fleet), and manage them with our OTel-native telemetry pipeline.

If you’re looking to simplify user access and permissions in your Grafana instance, then this blog post is for you.That’s because we’re going to walk through how to set up a streamlined system for managing user permissions with Grafana teams. We’ll focus on Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) as our user repository and identity provider, but these steps can be adapted to other identity providers as well, including Okta and Keycloak.

We celebrate “disruptiveness” in the tech space for its potential to revolutionize industries and drive innovation, often focusing on the excitement of what's new. But true disruption doesn't just add to our toolkit; it challenges us to rethink the very foundations we've relied on, including how to measure success. Organizations use metrics like productivity, efficiency, and user satisfaction to gauge how new technologies are performing and to steer their decisions.

In today’s digital world, organizations face a constant threat from cybersecurity vulnerabilities. One critical vulnerability that demands attention is CVE-2024-20359, which can impact multiple systems, including Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software.

Observability has become essential for efficient system management, and OpenTelemetry is leading the way in this field. The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib is an important tool for gathering telemetry data, providing developers and IT professionals with a flexible and powerful way to manage observability. We want to help you learn how to set up the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib. We'll point out common issues and offer effective troubleshooting strategies.

The latest notable attack discovered on 2nd September 2024, occurred on the Cisco merchandise website. We explore the intricacies of the Cisco Magecart attack and what we know so far.