Having a fast website is something that used to be great to have, but today it is literally a requirement. Slow websites affect your site in both terms of search engine ranking as well as your visitors’ attitudes. 47% of website visitors expect a site to load in less than two seconds.

We all want to ship code on a daily basis. As developers, we want the faster feedback cycle that comes with continuous delivery, and we know it’s better for our team and product in the long run. So why do so many development teams still have such long release cycles? While long release cycles are tried and true and can be seen as more stable, teams sacrifice much more than faster feedback cycles.

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect on May 25, 2018. Hailed as the most significant change in data privacy regulations in two decades, GDPR was the result of years of intense activity and discussions among legislators, consumer groups, the legal community, and data privacy specialists.

We're proud to have been listed on Google's 1 year anniversary post about the launch of the .APP top level domain.

The Internet of Things has transformed people’s lives, enabling everything from “smart homes” to remote health monitoring. And now a startup called AMMP Technologies is using IoT – and Grafana – to help bring electricity to rural Africa. Hendrik Broering, COO and cofounder of AMMP, told the audience at GrafanaCon L.A. about a village in Tanzania called Changombe, with a population of about 2,000 and no access to electricity until 2017.

Recently, we discussed key predictions and observations on how infrastructure and service monitoring solutions will evolve, adding strong AI/ML capabilities to collect and manage multiple data sources from across a hybrid IT environment.

We are very excited to announce Calico v3.7. Here are some highlights from the release.

When you’re working with EC2 or containers, VPCs have long been viewed as a must-have. Without them, you will face a constant barrage of attacks aimed at your infrastructure and OS, such as brute force login attacks. But are VPCs still needed when it comes to AWS Lambda? What do you actually get when you put a function inside a VPC? And what are the downsides?

As CEO and co-founder of IOpipe, Adam Johnson works with both individual developers and engineering teams at global enterprises to get real-time visibility into the detailed behaviors of their serverless applications. According to The New Stack’s 2018 ebook, serverless adoption has grown by 75 percent since 2017, but developers continue to cite concerns about application performance, risk, and monitoring as drawbacks to building on a serverless architecture.

Between Wednesday, April 17th and Friday, April 26th, Honeycomb had four separate periods of downtime affecting the Honeycomb API, resulting in approximately 38 minutes of total downtime. At Honeycomb, we believe that visibility into production services is important, especially when service outages are making your users unhappy. We take the impact of outages on our customers seriously, and believe that transparency is key to you trusting in and using our service.