Today's most talked about brands have formed intimate bonds with consumers through the proliferation of digital services. But in today’s on-demand world, those services are only as good as the applications that deliver them.

“Kubernetes vs. Docker” is a phrase that you hear more and more these days as Kubernetes becomes ever more popular as a container orchestration solution. However, “Kubernetes vs. Docker” is also a somewhat misleading phrase. When you break it down, these words don’t mean what many people intend them to mean, because Docker and Kubernetes aren’t direct competitors.

Modern day marketers have a mountain to climb. You need to ensure that you deliver a continuous and consistent brand experience and meet customer demands across a broader ecosystem. This has led to a major shift in the marketing world: from being product-centric to becoming customer-centric. As such, it has become increasingly crucial to achieve a refined understanding of your target market.

In this (and future) posts, you can find the latest news and updates from the OpenTelemetry project. We also plan to share information about relevant events, community activities, and awesome articles. Big news this week, as the OpenTelemetry Specification v0.2 has been released! This milestone means that you’ll soon be able to download and start using the OpenTelemetry SDK in a variety of languages with basic export functionality.

If you are in IT Ops or DevOps, hardly a day goes by without someone mentioning AIOps. There are a few who think AIOps can replace IT Ops tools today. Others debate this, saying that AIOps is still a nascent field, and it will take a few more years until we see a full-fledged AIOps platform for IT operations management. But there’s always been a lot of confusion on how AIOps really works.

Platform teams accelerate the speed of a business by making it easier for developers to release more features with less risk. They do this by enabling developers to reason about their code in production, by reducing the burden to do common development tasks, and letting developers start new projects or change projects faster. Every investment in platform is an investment in making the rest of the development organization more efficient and effective.

The Capital One data breach has been big news and for good reason. The exposure of over 100 million personal data records is a big deal—especially when it’s a bank, and especially when it’s a bank like Capital One that has leaned into the cloud so heavily. It is too easy for the skeptics and naysayers to blame the cloud; which makes it even more critical to truly understand what happened.