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Our complete cron job guide for 2024

When it comes to system administration, the need for automation and precise scheduling has never been greater. That’s where cron comes in, the time-based job scheduler that has been a steadfast companion of Unix-like operating systems for decades. If you’re a seasoned sysadmin or just a curious enthusiast, understanding the ins and outs of Cron is a valuable skill.

OTel Applications on Retrace

We are excited to inform you that Open Telemetry is now available for you with the introduction of “Netreo OTel Appliance”. With the OTel Appliance, cloud-native services like AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, AWS EKS, Azure Functions, Azure App Services, Azure Container Instances, and Azure Kubernetes Services can be monitored and you see application traces and logs in Retrace UI (s1.stackify.com). The applications hosted in the cloud Serverless and containers can be monitored without running the Retrace agent within the instance itself.

"Our job is not to write code." | #GitKraken CTO Eric Amodio at #Dockercon

How should devs feel AI's rapid growth? What will happen to their jobs? 🤯 Well, GitKraken CTO Eric Amodio doesn't think developers should have an existential crisis. In a #Dockercon keynote with Justin Cormack, he explains that developers' jobs encompass way more than just writing code – it's about problem solving & critical thinking.

Overcoming Messy Cloud Migrations, Outdated Infrastructures, Syslog, and Other Chaos

As businesses grapple with increasing data volumes, the need for practical tools to manage and use this data has never been greater. High-quality tools are great — but imagine what you could accomplish with one that made all the others in your toolbox even better? That’s exactly how we design every Cribl solution — we exist to help IT and Security teams get more out of their existing infrastructure.

Innovators Preview: Exploring New Features and Enhancements in UEM

The Innovators Preview event offers a comprehensive look at the latest developments in Unified Endpoint Management (UEM). The discussion ranges from product management and OS platforms to updates for Android and Apple devices. Key topics include 5G slicing, carrier support, app configurations, and account-driven device enrollment. The shift to declarative management and the transition from CentOS 7 to Oracle Linux 8 are also highlighted.

The Frugal Architect, Law I: Make Cost A Non-Functional Requirement

This is part one of seven in our Frugal Architect blog series. In case you weren’t as giddy as CloudZero was at re:Invent this year, we wanted to recount the seven laws outlined by Werner Vogels, Amazon’s CTO, which he’s bundled into a framework called “The Frugal Architect”. What is “The Frugal Architect”? A constitution of sorts for how engineers can build high-functioning, cost-efficient cloud software.

How Gremlin's dependency discovery feature works

Modern applications are rarely created entirely from scratch. Instead, they rely on a framework of pre-existing applications and services, each adding specific features and functionality. These dependencies empower teams to build and deploy applications more efficiently, but they bring their own set of challenges. Tracking, managing, and updating these dependencies is difficult, especially in large, complex applications where dependencies are likely managed by different teams.