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How the growing Grafana Observability team restructured themselves successfully

Over the past year, Grafana Labs has grown from 300 to 700 Grafanistas. Moving forward, we expect to continue to maintain a high rate of change, and to sustain that, we need to ensure there is flexibility in how our teams* are set up. The majority of our Engineering squads have changed in size and structure — and the same goes for the Grafana Observability team, where I work.

New observability features for your Splunk Dataflow streaming pipelines

We’re thrilled to announce several new observability features for the Pub/Sub to Splunk Dataflow template to help operators keep a tab on their streaming pipeline performance. Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud customers use the Splunk Dataflow template to reliably export Google Cloud logs for in-depth analytics for security, IT or business use cases.

New Active Directory Integration features in Ubuntu 22.04 (part 2) - Group Policy Objects

Linux Active Directory (AD) integration is historically one of the most requested functionalities by our corporate users, and with Ubuntu Desktop 22.04, we introduced ADsys, our new Active Directory client. This blog post is part 2 of a series where we will explore the new functionalities in more detail.

New Feature: Adding more options to informational status updates

Not all status updates are published because of an incident or scheduled maintenance event. Sometimes, IT teams simply want to cast an informational status update without affecting the overall status. Now, with StatusCast’s newly released option, you can opt for informational updates to have no effect on your status.

How Zero Trust Enables Work from Anywhere and Builds Toward a SASE Vision

With the global pandemic greatly accelerating many organizations digital transformation, IT and security leaders are coming to terms with the new realities of employees permanently working from anywhere and how that dramatically changes the security risk and the security architecture required. In this session, a panel of expert speakers discuss how Zero Trust security is a key requirement for this new way of working, and the vital role of secure access service edge (SASE) in implementing this approach going forward.

Incident response: leadership & psychological safety with Jeli founder Nora Jones

Incident response can tricky. How do you create a culture prepared to handle it in a healthy and efficient way? What should and shouldn't leaders be involved in? How do you create a psychologically safe environment? Find out in this episode as Rob as he interviews Jeli founder Nora Jones on the do's and don'ts of incident response.

What's New in Calico v3.23

Hey everyone. We’re excited to announce the release of Calico v3.23! Thanks to everyone in the community who contributed to the release. We could not have fitted this many improvements in without you. To view the detailed release notes, please visit us here. While we have many improvements in this release, here’s a brief overview of some of the larger features to be aware of.

The Return to the Office: Major Companies Investing in Flexible Workplaces

For much of the past two years, businesses have been looking ahead to an eventual return to the office – a return that has been frequently delayed and disrupted by the unpredictable nature of the COVID-19 pandemic. But with some employees resistant to returning, companies are looking for new options to entice employees back. It may not be a return to the office at all, but instead a movement towards an entirely new way of working together.

What SREs Can Learn from the Atlassian Nightmare Outage of 2022

What happens when the tools and services you depend on to drive Site Reliability Engineering turn out to be susceptible to reliability failures of their own? That’s the question that teams at about 400 businesses have presumably had to ask themselves this month in the wake of a major outage in Atlassian Cloud.