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Hey there! I’m Devin Limo, a Senior Customer Solutions Architect here at Sysdig. February was a whirlwind, and we’ve got some awesome updates you don’t want to miss. From deep dives into critical vulnerabilities to game-changing product updates, we’ve got you covered. Hot off the press: Falco has graduated within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)!

In recent years, hybrid cloud environments have emerged as a popular, if not de facto, choice for many organizations seeking flexibility, scalability, and security in their IT infrastructure. Industry research firm Mordor Intelligence pegs hybrid cloud as a nearly $130bn market in 2024, growing at a better than 22% clip over the next five years.

In a recent interview with Ewan Cameron, the Product Manager behind N-central RMM, we got an exclusive insight into the groundbreaking features and improvements rolled out in the first release of N-central for 2024. So, let’s dive into the key highlights of N-central 2024.1.

A few days ago, I challenged myself: Could I create a CPU throttling monitor without using StackState's docs page? I'll go a bit deeper into CPU throttling later, but first: Why this mission? At StackState, we believe that every software developer should be able to observe the health and reliability of their own application — quickly and easily.

SRE and IT Operations play a critical role in ensuring reliable, high-performance applications. Yet, SREs (Site Reliability Engineers) often face ‘thrown-over-the-wall’ code deployments to operate without having insights into the code-level features. In my previous article (“Is your Java Observability tool Lambda Expressions aware?”), I delved into one such code-level feature: Java lambda expressions which replace anonymous inner classes.

TL;DR You deserve a better alerting and on-call tool. So we built Signals. In our early days, we often used the tagline, “You just got paged. Now what?” It encapsulated how FireHydrant solved for all of the messy bits that come after your alert is fired, from incident declaration all the way through to retrospective. At the time, we saw alerting and on-call scheduling as a solved problem.

Integration is a crucial aspect of modern IT service management. By linking their ITSM platform with external applications, businesses can simplify their IT operations, enhance efficiency and flexibility, and provide better customer service. Real-time integration allows businesses to quickly adapt to changing circumstances and ensure that IT services align with business requirements. However, ITSM integration can be complex and difficult.

The.NET programming language is taking cloud native deployment and observability seriously, and most notably with the recent announcement of.NET Aspire stack unveiled at the recent.NET Conf 2023. In the latest episode of OpenObservability Talks, we reviewed the journey to making.NET a “by default, out of the box observable platform,” as ASP.NET Core creator David Fowler put it.