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The Future of Cloud Data & AI/ML with Google's Engineering Lead

Explore the future of AI and data analytics with Google Engineering Lead Samarth Shah. From Lakehouse architectures to Tiny Models at the edge, Samarth breaks down the key trends shaping cloud-native analytics. Gain insights into augmented analytics, data governance, and real-time intelligence in this forward-looking session from Civo Navigate San Francisco 2025.

Investigating External API Slowdowns

Oftentimes we need to depend on external APIs to achieve the functionality your app offers. And as we all know, dependencies = points of failure. You don’t own what you don’t control. That’s why it’s super important to keep an eye on them. In this video we’re going to see how we can use Sentry to monitor third party APIs to figure out if they’re causing slowdowns in our own app.

Grafana Campfire - Data Visualization Tips and Best Practices (Grafana Community Call- April 2025)

Creating dashboards in Grafana gives you some very good built-in features to manipulate your data by using transformations, variables, filtering, overriding,, annotations for your data and with addition of Community plugins (data sources, panels and apps) increases the user experience to a whole next level. Still, many users do not either know about these features or do not use it correctly and why is the reason?

Why Observability is Getting Expensive and OpenTelemetry is Becoming More Popular | Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs' Jen Villa shares the latest insights into how organizations are rethinking their observability strategies — with cost now taking center stage. This video covers: Chapters: Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.

DevOps project management: A comprehensive guide for startups

DevOps teams in startups face a unique challenge: delivering reliable systems with limited resources while keeping pace with rapid growth and change. But search for "DevOps project management," and you'll find yourself drowning in enterprise frameworks, complex methodologies, and expensive tools that seem disconnected from startup realities. It's hard to know which approaches actually work when you're operating with constraints on time, budget, and personnel.

Continuous testing in DevOps: The missing piece for reliable systems

Reliable, high-performing systems are the lifeblood of modern digital businesses. But it's hard to know where to start, especially when you're a startup with limited resources and a small DevOps or SRE team. Fortunately, effective continuous testing doesn't have to be overly complicated. In this guide, we'll break down the essential components of continuous testing in DevOps, with special attention to the often-overlooked monitoring aspect that can make or break your testing strategy.
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How to Configure OpenTelemetry as an Agent with the Carbon Exporter

If you're already using OpenTelemetry for tracing and logs, adding otelcol-contrib as an agent for system metrics just makes sense. It keeps everything in the same pipeline, so you're not juggling multiple monitoring tools or dealing with inconsistent data formats. Plus, with built-in support for host metrics, custom processing, and direct exports to Graphite, it's a solid way to ship performance data without extra overhead. In this article, we'll detail how to install the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib distribution, and configure it to export system performance metrics to a Graphite datasource.

Unlock Cheaper & Faster AI Testing: Mocking Claude and MCP

Generative AI is quickly becoming ubiquitous in the software development space, with tools like Anthropic’s Claude offering rapid methodologies for code iteration, testing, and deployment. As new solutions, such as MCP (Model Context Protocol), are created to make integration more seamless, enterprises are adopting these AI solutions to optimize their development processes, a familiar challenge repeatedly arises: cost.
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Fabrix.ai Demo Day Showcases Agentic Platform and AGNTCY Collective Ecosystem Alliance

Fabrix.ai, a pioneer in enterprise-ready agentic AI solutions, successfully hosted its highly anticipated Agentic AI Demo Day yesterday, bringing together IT operations, NOC operations, and AI operations professionals for a comprehensive showcase of its Purpose-built Agentic AI Operational Intelligence Platform.