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Provisioning and Autoscaling

Datadog, the observability platform used by thousands of companies, runs on dozens of self-managed Kubernetes clusters in a multi-cloud environment, adding up to tens of thousands of nodes, or hundreds of thousands of pods. This infrastructure is used by a wide variety of engineering teams at Datadog, with different feature and capacity needs.

How AI can change the game in the database and streaming system optimization field

The net result of an AI-powered optimization process is not only a better data experience, but also increased developer productivity. Once the teams are aware of what can be automated, the improvements can not only speed things up but reduce costs.

Cribl Stream's Replay vs Cribl Search's Send: Understanding the Differences

In today’s contemporary landscape, organizations produce more data than ever, which needs to be collected, stored, analyzed, and retained, but not necessarily in that order. Historically, most vendors’ analysis tools were also the retention point for that data. Still, while this may first appear to be the best option for performance, we have quickly seen it creates significant problems.

Is YAML Essential for Kubernetes? Engin Diri Explores Alternatives - Navigate Europe 2023

Join Engin Diri, an expert in Kubernetes and cloud transformation from Pulumi, as he explores the challenges of using YAML in Kubernetes and presents more efficient alternatives. In this talk, Engin discusses the limitations of YAML and showcases how generic programming languages can significantly improve the deployment process in Kubernetes. Watch as he demonstrates the practical application of tools like Pulumi and CDK8s.

Predictions for 2024 - Learn from PagerDuty's CIO and CISO!

Join us as we kick off the year with our leaders discussing their 2024 predictions. Automation and generative AI will continue to play a big role in everything a CIO and CISO does, so come and learn from PagerDuty’s CIO, Eric Johnson and CISO, Heather Hinton, about their top predictions for 2024 and how to best adopt automation and generative AI into your department’s strategies.

What are networks?

Networks are present in numerous aspects of our daily lives. It's essential for organizations to keep track of their networks to prevent unexpected outages that may result in a drop in productivity. In this segment, we will delve into the subject of networks and their various types. If you already have a basic grasp of networks, this video will act as a refresher. However, if you're unfamiliar with networks, our objective is to provide you with a clear understanding of the concepts.

Receive zipped messages (or files) in BizTalk Server Solutions

Welcome again to another BizTalk Server to Azure Integration Services blog post. In my previous blog post, I discussed how to send zipped messages or files. Today, we will discuss the same topic but in the opposite direction, which is also a classic requirement in legacy BizTalk Server solutions: How do you receive zipped messages (files)?

SLOs with Prometheus done wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, then right

We have Carson Anderson, Sr. DevOps Engineer at Weave HQ, talking about how they implemented SLOs using Prometheus, what went wrong, and how they fixed it. This talk was given at "Last9 of Reliability" Discord community on 13th December. Talk Description: First thing's first: Yes, it really did take us 5 tries to implement our SLOs with Prometheus. While that may seem embarrassing, we are very happy to be able to share our SLO journey so that we can hopefully help you avoid the same mistakes.