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Curious about the Conda universe? Learn what Conda is & where it came from, what Conda packages are, which Conda communities to join, & more!

Ruby on Rails is a popular MVC framework for creating web applications. It is necessary to monitor your Ruby applications for performance issues. In today’s cloud-native and microservices-based architecture, it is difficult for engineering teams to troubleshoot performance issues. Tracing your application can give the much needed context required to troubleshoot performance issues.

Few industries have been more affected by the COVID-19 pandemic than travel. Singapore Airlines (SIA) faced a more difficult situation than most airlines given the lack of a domestic market in the geographically small nation-state. A robust digitalization push in the years leading up to the pandemic softened the worst effects and allowed the airline to quickly pivot.

Containers are one of the most popular ways for businesses to deploy applications. They provide an easy method of packaging applications into self-sufficient units that can be used, moved around, and re-used in any number of ways without breaking the overall functionality of your software. With the possible exception of serverless architecture, containerization is perhaps the best way to achieve smooth, seamless application deployment and minimal hassle with updates and application maintenance.

With Cloud SQL for SQL Server, you can bring your existing SQL Server on-premises workloads to Google Cloud. Cloud SQL takes care of infrastructure, maintenance, and patching so you can focus on your application and users. A great way to take better care of your application is by monitoring the SQL Server error log for issues that may be affecting your users such as deadlocks, job failures, and changes in database health.

Prometheus is considered the de facto standard for Kubernetes application metrics, but running it yourself can strain engineering time and infrastructure resources when your usage grows. In March, we announced the general availability of Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus to help you offload that burden, and today, we’re excited to announce a new low-cost, high-usage pricing tier designed for customers who are moving large volumes of Kubernetes metrics over to the service.

Not all status updates are published because of an incident or scheduled maintenance event. Sometimes, IT teams simply want to cast an informational status update without affecting the overall status.

Vulnerabilities within an IT environment pose a big security risk and are a threat to digital data within an organization. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by others, or a lack of necessary precautions can result in damaged or lost organizational data. Therefore, it is essential to have a vulnerability management process in place for these reasons.

For those who missed the live conversation, we had a great chat with Nana Janashia around taking the next click in with Kubernetes. As one of the great equalizers between the development and operations teams, Kubernetes has a duality of generics and opinions to power your workloads. This duality can be a complex one to navigate not only dealing with a new paradigm of idempotency and ephemerality but also dealing with a vast amount of choice and seemingly granular.

What’s the saddest log line in the multiverse? A log line without context. That’s according to Grafana Labs software engineer and Grafana Loki tech lead Ed Welch, who joined Grafana Labs VP of Culture Matt Toback and Engineering Director Mat Ryer for the latest episode of “Grafana’s Big Tent," our new podcast about people, community, tech, and tools around observability.