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OpenTelemetry Deep Dive: Resilience & High Availability in the OTel Collector

Missed it live? Catch the full recording of OpenTelemetry Deep Dive: Resilience & High Availability in the OTel Collector — a 1-hour workshop on building telemetry pipelines that never drop a signal. We’ll show you why resilience matters, how to design high-availability architectures, and how to configure the OpenTelemetry Collector with retries, batching, and persistent queues. Plus, you’ll see live demos in both Docker and Kubernetes — including scaling Gateway collectors with an HPA — and how Bindplane makes large-scale management seamless.

Proxmox vs Cycle: Toolkit or Platform?

If you've ever run a homelab, chances are you've tried Proxmox. Its mix of open-source accessibility, strong VM support, and lightweight containers has made it popular among enthusiasts and small IT teams alike. Beyond hobby projects, Proxmox has also found adoption in organizations that value cost efficiency or wanted to avoid locking themselves into VMware's catalog. That adoption has seen some positive movement in the wake of Broadcom's changes to VMware's licensing and support model.

E7: Building a robust IT asset management practice using ServiceDesk Plus

In the seventh episode of Masterclass 2025, learn the various aspects of an efficient asset management practice and map dependencies between IT infrastructure components to evaluate potential risks. We will go over how to manage hardware and software assets, discover assets using various methods, loan assets temporarily to contract employees, and auto-assign assets to users.

Reality Bytes #62: Digital Overload - The Distraction Episode

In this episode of Reality Bytes, Sean, Oriana, Dina, Tim, and Tom dive into the ever-present challenge of digital distraction in the workplace. From smartphones and smartwatches to endless Teams notifications, our panelists share their personal "kryptonite" when it comes to staying focused.