In this weeks spotlight I sit down with Cycle Founder, Jake Warner to talk about trends in hiring and layoffs prevalent in the tech industry.

Welcome to AI Summer Camp. Join 5 essential trainings on AI from Canonical experts and level up your skills while on holiday. Episode 3: Vector databases for generative AI applications Join us for a deep dive into the role of vector databases in generative AI applications.

Ellen is a Partner at boldstart. She joined the boldstart team in January 2021, after having worked with the team as a founder at Dark. Her role allows her to do exactly what she loves – investing and supporting founders building pre-product, dev-focused, enterprise companies. Prior to boldstart and founding Dark, she worked in a variety of early stage product roles: at Lola on travel tooling, at Kickstarter on backer-facing projects, and at Microsoft on the first versions of cross-platform Office Mobile. The common thread is building tools that enable people to do creative work.

Your IT help desk is the frontline defense against technical issues and user frustrations. But who helps the help desk stay efficient and effective? Join us for a webinar to discover how NinjaOne can be your ultimate ally in maximizing help desk efficiency. Field CTO Jeff Hunter will dive into practical tips and tricks that leverage the power of NinjaOne to streamline your IT operations. From automating repetitive tasks to enhancing incident response times, you’ll learn how NinjaOne can transform your help desk into a well-oiled machine.

Vodafone is a Global 500 telecommunications company in Europe and Africa servicing over 320 million mobile customers across 21 markets. In this PagerDuty Executive Spotlight, we sat down with Ahmed Elsayed, UK CIO & Digital Engineering Director at Vodafone, to discuss his experience unifying a global engineering team to streamline the development and deployment of digital products and services to ensure an exceptional customer experience.

Being a voice service provider is challenging. Many regional and rural service providers are constrained by legacy TDM networks that are expensive to maintain, are well into their late lifecycles, are becoming a burden to administer and manage due to resource shortages and therefore pose risks to their business vitality. Continuing changes are experienced with vendors and products that seemingly constantly enter and exit the market. Ribbon offers a comprehensive transformation portfolio tailored to regional and rural providers.

Dive into the world of open-source solutions and explore how Coroot revolutionizes observability with its cutting-edge technology. This open-core software seamlessly integrates with your applications, making instrumentation a breeze—even for encrypted traffic! Experience robust monitoring capabilities without the cumbersome setup. Uncover the future of observability today!

The top query from database administrators is: what is this database for, and why do I care? The life of a DBA is one of infinite gifts, even if those gifts are unwanted. If you've ever had an application owner drop a database in your lap, then this session is for you. Hear from professionals who have dealt with this problem time and time again. Spoiler alert: better tooling gives you and the application owner the insight they need to make informed decisions.

In this video, I’ll provide an overview of the OpenTelemetry Collector’s configuration file (config.yaml) with examples from the Splunk distribution. I will briefly explain the components of the Splunk OTel Collector, and walk you through a sample generic configuration of the OTel Collector. We’ll then use the Splunk Observability Cloud interface to construct the commands needed to install the Splunk OTel Collector on a specific host. This installation will copy a default Splunk OTel Collector configuration onto the host, and we’ll review the Splunk specific components of this configuration.

Navigating the startup landscape in the cloud era is crucial. But luckily, the Aiven platform empowers startups to succeed in this competitive and dynamic environment.