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Executive Buy-In is Driving Observability Maturity: 2025 Observability Survey Results | Grafana Labs

In this video, CTO Tom Wilkie from Grafana Labs breaks down some of the most compelling findings from our third annual Observability Survey, based on over 1,200 industry responses. The big takeaway? Executive involvement is on the rise—and it’s accelerating adoption of advanced observability practices like distributed tracing, profiling, and SLOs. He also explores how SaaS adoption, the maturation of central observability teams, and new instrumentation methods like eBPF and Beyla are reshaping the observability landscape.

How to use custom variables in Grafana dashboards

Custom variables let you define your own options for dashboard viewers to select. They're a way to fine-tune how your dashboard behaves. In this video we'll look at how to use custom variables in your own dashboards. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.

The Importance of TTFB for Web Performance #coding #frontend #programming #chromedevtools

Discover why Time to First Byte (TTFB) is crucial for website speed in this essential Concepts of Web Performance tutorial with Todd Gardner from Request Metrics. Perfect for junior web developers learning performance optimization, this concise guide explains exactly what TTFB measures—the critical waiting period between a user's initial request and your server's first response. Learn how TTFB encompasses redirects, DNS lookups, SSL negotiations, server processing time, and geographical distance, making it the first blocking step in your page's loading sequence.

Data Center Boom: Navigating the Hottest Industry in the World | Uplink Podcast | Episode 2

How did data centers become one of the hottest industries on the planet? DataBank CEO Raul Martynek joins us to break down the explosive growth of digital infrastructure—and what it really takes to scale in the AI era. The data center industry stands at the epicenter of today's technology revolution, experiencing what industry veterans call "the best market ever seen." In this revealing conversation with DataBank's CEO, we dive deep into the forces driving unprecedented growth in digital infrastructure and why this sector has become perhaps the hottest industry globally.

The Future of AI Consumption with Chris Sharp, CTO of Digital Realty | Uplink Podcast | Episode 1

What powers the AI revolution? Digital Realty CTO Chris Sharp joins us to explore the evolution of data centers—from invisible infrastructure to the epicenter of next-gen compute. How did data centers transform from invisible infrastructure to the epicenter of the AI revolution? In this fascinating conversation with Chris Sharp, Chief Technology Officer at Digital Realty, we explore the remarkable evolution of digital infrastructure over the past two decades.