Code, deploy, repeat. As a developer, your days are a whirlwind of Git commits, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines. In the rush to ship new features and hit those sprint goals, it's easy to overlook the less glamorous aspects of software maintenance. But one often-neglected practice could be the difference between a stable, secure system and a compromised system. Enter patch management, a key DevOps tool in your arsenal to safeguard your systems.

High availability is frequently discussed but often misunderstood—especially when dealing with hybrid cloud and mainframe environments. Ensuring high availability in MQ monitoring across these environments requires a comprehensive strategy, careful planning, and sometimes, a bit of trial and error. Below are key strategies to ensure that MQ monitoring is always reliable, no matter where systems are running.

Firmware over-the-air (FOTA) updates are the technology that delivers and installs firmware updates wirelessly to devices. This article explains firmware, FOTA updates, what they do and how they work, as well as the benefits and challenges they bring to IT teams.

Over-the-air (OTA) updates are software updates delivered to and installed on your devices, without you having to plug them in. This guide explains what OTA updates are, the OTA update process and how it works, and how they benefit you. It also explains the role and importance of OTA updates in IT.

One of the things about OpenTelemetry that’s easy to miss if you’re not spending the whole day in the ins and outs of the project is just how much stuff it can do—but that’s what I’m here for! Today, I want to go through the project and give you a guide to the various parts of OpenTelemetry, how mature they are, and what you can expect over the next six months or so. I ranked these elements by relative maturity across the entire project.

It has taken a while - but it's here. Streamlining the Spectate platform with our new branding. It's faster than ever, looks much, much better (at least we think so ) and is more stable than it has ever been.

Today we are announcing the general availability of Authd, a new authentication daemon for Ubuntu that allows direct integration with cloud-based identity providers for both Ubuntu Desktop and Server. Authd is available free of charge on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. At launch, Authd supports Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) identity provider, with additional providers, including a white label OIDC provider, to be introduced in the future.

And with that, we have concluded another incredible Navigate event As Navigate Europe 2024 comes to an end, we couldn't be more grateful for everyone involved, from our sponsors, attendees, and most importantly, the Civo team. It was a packed event with over 40 talks and workshops on a range of topics, such as artificial intelligence (AI), emerging technology, LLMs, and security in the cloud native space.

The performance monitoring industry has been using the word “observability” to a lot of different ends lately. While the trend towards more visibility into services is a good one, it’s also based on a need we see from customers on a day-to-day basis. The need to take back control of network visibility is strong in the face of complexity that has been rapidly increasing for years.

Microservices architecture has become a dominant approach for building scalable, resilient, and flexible applications. However, monitoring these microservices presents unique challenges due to their distributed nature, fixed or limited resources, enterprise scale, and the dynamic nature of environments, such as Kubernetes clusters. The result is that in-process application agents often introduce significant overhead because they rely on intrusive instrumentation and frequent polling.