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The Grafana OpenTelemetry Distribution for .NET: Optimized for Application Observability

The OpenTelemetry project provides many different components and instrumentations that support different languages and telemetry signals. However, new users often find it hard to pick the right ones and configure them properly for their specific use cases. For this reason, OpenTelemetry defines the concept of a distribution, which is a tailored and customized version of OpenTelemetry components. Here at Grafana Labs, we are all-in on OpenTelemetry.

How software company security priorities are changing

The cyberthreat landscape continues to change along with technological advancements. Industry thought leaders expect to see changes in software companies’ approach to security and the defenses they put in place to protect their businesses and their users. Here are five of developers’ cybersecurity priorities for 2023 and predictions for how software companies will adapt their processes to address them.

How to unlock your leadership potential on a cloud migration project: A guide for the DBA, part 1

If your organization is embarking on a cloud migration project, it can be a great opportunity to develop skills and qualities that will help unlock your leadership potential. But what skills should you look to be honing, what areas should you focus on, how do you get involved in a cloud project in the first place, and what qualities can prepare you for leadership responsibilities? We spoke to some notable industry experts to find out.

Aggregating Logs From Microservices-Best Practices

Depending on where you are on your journey with microservices, you may have noticed visibility into the system can be a bit tricky at times. Well, there’s good news. Not knowing what’s going on in the system is a solvable problem. One of the first things you can do is get your logs in order. And one of the best ways of doing so is aggregating your logs into a single logging service.

What is Git Pull? #shorts #shortsvideo #git

Time for a Git concept deep-dive! Today's video features "Git Pull," which updates your local branch with changes from your remote repository – a crucial step in collaborative development. Git pull can help you synchronize your work before a new feature development or helps to ensure you're up-to-date before pushing your own updates.

OpenTelemetry Webinars - The Open Agent Management Protocol

Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) is the emerging open standard to manage a fleet of telemetry agents at scale. Join Nica and Srikanth as we discuss recent updates to the standard and how you can remotely manage the OpenTelemetry collector with OpAMP. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack.

OpenTelemetry Webinars - The Trace API

Join Nica and Srikanth to talk in detail about the OpenTelemetry Trace API. We'll talk about adding spans, events, attributes and other extra info, whether it's really possible to replace logs with traces, and more More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator.

Find your perfect movie with ClickHouse, vector search, Hugging Face API, and Next.js

Get an introduction to machine learning using Aiven services and the Hugging Face API to recommend movies based on Wikipedia synopses. We'll build a project that uses vector search to find the perfect movie based on user input. We'll use ClickHouse®, a fast open-source column-oriented database, which already supports built-in vector comparison capabilities. To visualize our results, we'll rely on Next.js and to we'll get vector embeddings using some free tools and a HuggingFace model.

Optimizing Your Cloud Strategy | Achieving Flexibility, Longevity, and ROI

Watch this on-demand webinar to learn about key considerations to building your data management approach, including the importance of software choices and cloud tenancy. We will also deep-dive into what is BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) and how you can integrate this strategic imperative into your roadmap.

Status Pages and Incident Management for Higher Education

Elevate your higher education experience with StatusCast! Watch our exclusive system outage video to discover crucial insights and proactive strategies to ensure uninterrupted operations in the dynamic landscape of academia. Learn from real-life scenarios and gain valuable knowledge on maintaining system reliability, minimizing downtime, and enhancing the overall efficiency of your educational institution. Stay ahead in the digital age of higher education with StatusCast – because your institution's success depends on a robust and resilient IT infrastructure!