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There’s no end in sight for the more-than-fair share of technological advancements the telecommunications sector has seen. And with change, comes challenges. The infrastructures that establish digital communication and connectivity that nearly everyone depends on are in regular, ongoing need of upgrades, which calls for significant investments in building and maintaining them. Much of the relevant decision-making comes from Communication Service Providers (CSPs).

Grafana Labs has always been actively involved in the OpenTelemetry community, even working with the predecessor projects OpenTracing and OpenCensus. We have been supporting OTLP as the primary input protocol for our distributed tracing project, Grafana Tempo, since its inception, and our Grafana Agent embeds parts of the OpenTelemetry Collector.

Welcome back to our Everyday Use Case series, where we continue to explore the real-world workflows for GitKraken Workspaces and show you practical ways to make routine tasks faster and simpler. In our previous article, we unpacked how GitKraken Workspaces simplifies the onboarding process for new team members in complex multi-repo projects. Now, we shift our focus to another crucial element of project development: Team Collaboration.

AJ Stuyvenberg is a Staff Engineer at Datadog and an AWS Serverless Hero. A version of this post was originally published on his blog. In AWS Lambda, a cold start occurs when a function is invoked and an idle, initialized sandbox is not ready to receive the request. Features like Provisioned Concurrency and SnapStart are designed to reduce cold starts by pre-initializing execution environments.