Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Nobody has much nice to say about MirrorMaker. Cross-cluster replication has been one of Kafka's sore spots for years, and KIP-1279 is the community's attempt to finally fix it. This episode I'm joined by Omnia Ibrahim, Software Engineer at Apple and Apache Kafka Committer, to talk about what's actually broken in multi-cluster Kafka today, what KIP-1279 changes, and what teams running active-active or active-passive setups should do in the meantime.

Managing multiple mobile network contracts for IoT is a drain. In this Short, Queenie Ng explains how PCCW Global's Console Connect platform gives controlled access to hundreds of global mobile networks, so you can connect device to cloud and focus on what matters to the business.

Still relying on serial numbers or manual asset lookups? In this video, Matt Beran shows how to generate QR codes for asset management with InvGate Asset Management and how IT teams can use them to simplify asset tracking, inventory management, and mobile access to asset information. Instead of searching through spreadsheets or manually locating asset records, QR codes provide instant access to the information stored in your inventory. Generate labels in bulk, print them, attach them to your devices, and scan them from your phone whenever you need asset details.

At Slack, between 100 to 200 users per day use Honeycomb for client observability, tracing, instrumentation, analysis of performance, frontend issues, investigating incidents, or just looking into production issues.

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In just two minutes, learn how our AI-powered platform unifies control across Windows, Mac, Linux, Mobile, and even VR/XR headsets. Discover how to eliminate tedious tasks with automated patching, zero-touch onboarding, and self-healing capabilities—allowing your team to focus on strategy instead of firefighting. What you’ll see in this video.

Devs have a habit of solving their own problems before anyone else's and the AI boom is repeating that pattern.

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Shawn Burke, Distinguished Engineer at Cortex, to explore what separates an operational excellence review that drives real engineering behavior from one that produces great conversation and nothing else. Shawn draws on experience from SoFi, Uber, and Microsoft to explain why these reviews so often fail—and how to build a process that actually sticks.

Are users reporting issues before your monitoring tools do? Are critical alerts getting lost in the noise? Does root cause analysis take hours instead of minutes? These are 3 signs your network monitoring is failing. Discover how modern observability helps teams detect issues faster and resolve them with confidence.

Business metrics should inform almost every other metric that's being evaluated.