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As we close out 2024, developer productivity and happiness continue to be a focus for many organizations. Platform engineering can play a pivotal role in shaping the developer experience. With the growing complexity of distributed systems and the ever-pressing need for faster delivery cycles, platform engineers are uniquely positioned to enable developers to focus on what they do best: shipping high-quality code.

When we think of the most game-changing innovations in recent times, there are many candidates. For instance, renewable energy solutions have changed how we think about sustainability and go about reducing carbon emissions. We’ve also seen the rise of blockchain technology that creates decentralized systems impacting finance, public administration, and even the food sector. ‍

What if you could not only find software issues you care about but also have the fix ready? We just introduced several updates that intelligently group new issues, reducing noise by about 40% and automatically suggesting fixes to annoying bugs you shouldn’t have to think about.

FreeRTOS 11 introduced symmetric multi-processing (SMP) support in the mainline kernel, meaning a single FreeRTOS kernel is managing multiple processor cores. This allows for high performance but also makes the runtime system more complex, meaning higher risk of issues and more difficult debugging. System tracing with Percepio Tracealyzer can offer an effective remedy by providing insight into the system execution.

Kentik Journeys is an AI-powered user experience that helps you investigate your network. It combines knowledge about your network with deep GenAI integration to help you answer network questions and solve problems faster than ever. Since launch, we’ve been innovating on Journeys’ capabilities and skills with customer feedback. Here’s a peek at what’s new.

London, 19 November 2024. Canonical has collaborated with Microsoft as an early adopter partner and tested Microsoft Azure IoT Operations on Ubuntu Core and Kubernetes, which is notable as Microsoft today released Azure IoT Operations, a unified data plane providing significant improvements in node data capture, edge-based telemetry processing and cloud-ingress.

We’re thrilled to share that the open source Yet Another CloudWatch Exporter (YACE) is now a prometheus-community project! This move represents an exciting milestone in YACE’s journey and validates the project’s contribution to the Prometheus ecosystem. Yace was started in 2018 by Thomas Peitz, who has overseen the dramatic evolution of the CloudWatch metrics exporter ever since.

More and more companies are now shifting to a cloud-native & microservices-based architecture. Having an application monitoring tool is critical in this world because you can’t just log into a machine and figure out what’s going wrong. We have spent years learning about application monitoring & observability. What are the key features an observability tool should have to enable fast resolution of issues. In our opinion, good observability tools should have.