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Getting telemetry out of a distributed system isn’t the hard part. Getting it out cleanly, without noise, drop-offs, or odd performance side-effects — that’s where things get interesting. Before you worry about processors or storage costs, you need a clear plan for where the OTel Collector should run. Most teams narrow this down to two options: a sidecar that sits next to each service, or a node-level agent that handles data for everything running on the node. Both patterns are solid.

Redgate Test Data Manager’s November’s release brings advanced table configuration for large databases and the ability to save connection strings. Two features that make setting up subsets and managing database connections smoother, easier, and faster.

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Last week, I ordered a pizza on a food delivery app. And they promised the delivery in 30 minutes. Similarly, all digital services: Apps, websites, cloud platforms, etc, make promises about speed, uptime, and reliability. The difference is how they track and measure those promises. That’s where SLA, SLO, and SLI come in. These three metrics define what “reliable” actually means. They turn a vague claim like “99.9% uptime” into something you can measure, track, and act on.

New Relic probes in Harness Chaos Engineering let you automatically validate system performance against defined SLOs during chaos experiments, transforming subjective testing into objective, metrics-driven resilience validation. By querying New Relic metrics in real-time and comparing results against your success criteria, you can programmatically verify that your systems maintain acceptable performance levels even under failure conditions.