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OpenTelemetry API vs SDK: Understanding the Architecture

When you're instrumenting applications with OpenTelemetry, you'll encounter two core components: the API and the SDK. The API defines what telemetry data looks like and how it is created, while the SDK handles how that data is processed and exported. Understanding this split helps you build more maintainable observability and avoid tight coupling between your business logic and telemetry infrastructure.

Design Concept: User-Created AI Agents with External Tool Support

Here's an early look at user-created AI agents with external tool support in Mattermost — designed to integrate AI into daily workflows while maintaining governance and security. We’d love your feedback on this design. Contact the Fast Futures team at fastfutures@mattermost.com.

Open Source Data Lakehouse Architecture with Spark and Kyuubi: Engineering Deep Dive

Subscribe. Fuel your curiosity. This webinar gives a detailed exploration of an open source data lakehouse architecture and how we implement it at Canonical. Watch to discover how Spark’s scalable processing engine and Kyuubi’s user-friendly SQL gateway enable efficient, secure, and high-performance analytics on unified data sets. Let’s dig deeper into how this combination simplifies big data storage, interactive analytics, and ETL – all through a single, streamlined open source lakehouse architecture.

What is Database Change Management (DCM)?

Database change management is the foundation for building a stable, secure, and high-performing application. In today’s fast-paced technological landscape, where agile and DevOps are the go-to for developing database application, rapid releases and continuous iteration are the norms. But with frequent deployments comes the risk of untracked database changes.

Fix issues faster with Recommended Remediations

You’ve successfully run a Fault Injection test and uncovered a new failure mode before it impacted customers. And the failure could have taken down your whole system if it had happened in production. Now what? Since this is a potential P1 outage, you absolutely need to address the issue, but that’s going to take some time as you dig through the service to track down the problem. Unfortunately, this is a common conflict.

True reliability takes the whole team

Reliability takes the whole team working together. Full transcript:  If you really want to get good at measuring your reliability, then you have to work together as a team. Once your software engineer organization has decided, "We're gonna test these applications to make sure that they have redundancy, availability, resilience." Just stick to that framework that you come up with as a team.

The Complete SaaS Unit Economics Guide (2025 Edition)

Measuring and monitoring unit economics can help your SaaS brand make informed business and engineering decisions. But how do you get that data, and what exactly are SaaS unit economics? We’ll cover exactly what SaaS unit economics are, metrics you should monitor, how to calculate your unit economics, and the tools you can use to be successful.

Self-Service Query UI for Logs in Azure Data Explorer (ADX)

This video focuses on how to create a self-service user interface (UI) for querying logs using Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and the Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) module. Perfect for developers and business users aiming to gain actionable operational insights from log data with simple visualizations and monitoring.