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Cloudsmith does more than store and manage artifacts. It protects them, too. In this article, we explain how you can prevent software supply chain threats by using our platform as a vital isolation layer between your binaries and risks in public open source repositories.

OpenTelemetry and OpenTracing are open-source projects used to instrument application code for generating telemetry data. While OpenTelemetry can help you generate logs, metrics, and traces, OpenTracing focuses on generating traces for distributed applications. If you’re thinking of choosing between OpenTelemetry and OpenTracing, go for OpenTelemetry. OpenTracing is now deprecated, and users of OpenTracing are advised to migrate to OpenTelemetry.

OpenTelemetry and DataDog are both used for monitoring applications. While OpenTelemetry is an open source observability framework, DataDog is a cloud-monitoring SaaS service. OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs that help generate and collect telemetry data (logs, metrics, and traces). OpenTelemetry does not provide a storage and visualization layer, while DataDog does.

Are you searching the market for an IT Service Management (ITSM) solution that meets your organization's specific business needs? Then this ITSM RFP template is exactly what you need to make a smart decision. RFP stands for Request for Proposal, and is a crucial element to ensure that the tool you choose to invest in aligns with your particular requirements.

Steve Jobs once said that giving customers what they wanted wasn’t his approach. “Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do,” he said instead. “People don't know what they want until you show it to them. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.” By now, this wisdom has become canonical for companies targeting end-users, but we tend to ignore it when we’re building products and processes for professional users.

Our recent virtual event with Cohere dove deep into the world of retrieval augmented generation (RAG), focusing on the critical considerations for building RAG applications beyond the proof-of-concept stage. Our speakers, Lily Adler, principal solutions architect at Elastic, and Maxime Voisin, senior product manager at Cohere, shared valuable insights on the challenges, solutions, and best practices in this evolving field of natural language processing (NLP).