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Observability vs. monitoring debate: An irreverent view

In the past few years, the word “observability” has steadily gained traction in the discussions around monitoring, DevOps, and, especially, cloud-native computing. However, there is significant confusion about the overlap or difference between observability and monitoring.

Cloud-optimized Linux kernels - what makes Ubuntu the top OS across the clouds

Ubuntu is the platform of choice for deploying and running workloads on public clouds. No other operating system gives you better performance and consistency of experience across public clouds, including Amazon, Azure, Google, IBM and Oracle. There is a reason behind this exceptional experience. By design, Ubuntu images in public clouds include an optimized Linux kernel for each cloud, giving you the best performance and functionality across all instance types and services.

DevOps State of Mind Podcast Episode 2: Giving People the Power to Participate

‍Sean Tierney is the DevOps lead at Athos, a company that's building better athletes through smart clothing and AI. Sean reinforces a DevOps state of mind across the organization by building empathy between hardware and software teams and putting the systems in place to allow them to move faster as a single unit.

Announcing HAProxy 2.5

Register for our live webinar to learn more about this release. HAProxy 2.5 is now available! It adds improvements to a number of areas including better usability around setting variables, more descriptive error reporting and logging, and enhanced HTTP and WebSocket support. The HAProxy Runtime API has expanded its coverage of SSL-related commands and now includes the ability to add and remove CA files and revocation lists on-the-fly.

Top 10 features of how to get the most out of your CI/CD

A CI/CD pipeline seems straightforward to implement and maintain. Yet it can often quickly become a tedious time sink and a source of universal frustration on many teams. From flaky builds, to long running builds, to flaky long running builds, the sources of frustration are endless. With the goal to ship more and faster as well as to compete in an ever changing industry, we can (and must) do better.

Save 85% in Time Spent on Root Cause Analysis with Topology-based Observability | StackState demo

During the 2021 Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies conference, our senior solution engineer Mark Arts showed you how you can use topology-based observability - based on our 4T Data Model - to save 85% in time spent on root cause analysis. Useful links.

Time-traveling topology in observability w/ Mark Bakker and Lodewijk Bogaards | The StackPod EP #1

Welcome to this first episode of the StackPod! This is a podcast where we talk about everything related to observability and working in a tech company. For the first episode, we invited our co-founders Lodewijk Bogaards and Mark Bakker. Anthony interviews them about observability and why a time-traveling topology is crucial for that, the move to the cloud and how that affects observability, cloud costs and much more.

Building for Windows using the MSIX orb

The MSIX orb is the first “Windows-only” orb from CircleCI. When Microsoft approached us with the opportunity to build an orb that would help Windows developers build on our platform, we were enthusiastic. Most of our orbs, and general workload, revolve around Linux and utilize Bash. However, we recognized the deep need to provide good CI/CD solutions for building applications on Windows, and with use of PowerShell growing steadily within Linux, it was time to take the plunge.