A multicloud strategy is a necessity for modern businesses, as the recent AWS outages made clear, but managing this infrastructure remains a huge challenge. Infrastructure management teams have long struggled to juggle diverse technology solutions, policies and services to get access to a point-in-time view of their resources. The result is either waste through overprovisioning or huge overheads for nitpicking manual management and repetitive tasks.

Observability came out of microservices and cloud-native, right? If you have a simpler architecture, does o11y matter?” — this question came up during recent office hours Yeah, sort of. On both counts—yeah, it sorta came out of microservices and cloud native, and yeah sorta, you need it with a simpler architecture (though perhaps not as desperately as you otherwise might).

The most basic component of automated software development is a CI/CD pipeline. While the term "pipeline" has been used to describe a wide range of computer science concepts, we use it at CircleCI and throughout the DevOps industry to refer to the vast range of behaviors and activities that are involved in continuous integration (CI).

Today, the Honeycomb OpenTelemetry Distribution for Java reaches a major milestone with a 1.0 release. This is the first Honeycomb OTel Distro to come out of beta and go into the general release category, and you can expect more to come!

Manufacturers accelerating Industry 4.0 are facing challenges associated with complex cloud-based systems and highly interconnected things. Full-stack observability provides the insights needed to ease transitions and deliver organizational agility required for growth.