Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Let’s face it: managing IT operations today feels a bit like spinning plates in a hurricane. Alerts are pinging, systems are stalling, users are shouting (as if that’ll help), and all the while, you’re drowning in a sea of repetitive, manual tasks. Sound familiar? Welcome to the wonderfully chaotic world of IT. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Bandwidth management is not easy; it is a 24/7 juggling act. You need a team of vigilant eyes constantly monitoring network traffic, sharp minds to brew up new strategies and refine old ones in order to squeeze out every ounce of performance, and a knack for pinpointing the root cause of issues when alarms are raised and fixing them swiftly.

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.

OpenSearch and Elasticsearch are both powerful search engines, but OpenSearch offers an open-source alternative with community-driven development.

Learn how AWS monitoring tools like CloudWatch, X-Ray, and others can help boost your cloud performance and make everything run smoothly.

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.

Last year, Bitbucket Cloud introduced custom merge checks. This advanced feature allowed users to go beyond Bitbucket’s built-in branch restrictions and create customized merge criteria for pull requests. Now, we’re expanding this feature to better support large organizations with many repositories. As organizations scale, manually configuring checks at the repository level becomes tedious and prone to inconsistency.

Every operating system has its quirks, and Linux security is no different. Whether you’re on Team Penguin or running mostly Windows boxes (or a bit of both), you’ll need to take different steps to manage security on different OSes. Like any OS, Linux security comes with its own peculiarities, pitfalls, and best practices.