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Have you ever watched your JavaScript app fail in production and wondered, “What just happened?” OpenTelemetry JavaScript helps answer that question, in a practical way to track what’s going on under the hood. Let’s walk through how it works, why it’s useful, and how to set it up without unnecessary complexity. If you've ever struggled with vague logs and slow API calls, this is for you.

Last week, the FinOps Foundation released its latest installment of the State of FinOps report. This year’s theme: Cloud+. Fortunately for all of us, Cloud+ isn’t yet another streaming service to add to an already infinite list. In the FinOps Foundation’s parlance, Cloud+ refers to all the non-public-cloud spending — e.g., SaaS, AI — that you’d want to group under the broad umbrella of “cloud spending.”

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, observability has become essential for supporting robust, efficient systems. According to Gartner’s report “Preparing for the Future of Observability” from September 2024, OpenTelemetry (OTEL) is emerging as the standard framework for collecting telemetry data across different application pipelines.

Have you ever looked at your monitoring dashboard and wondered, "Why is my Kafka consumer lag spiking again?" It’s a common frustration. Consumer lag isn’t just an inconvenience—it’s a sign that something’s wrong with your data pipeline. When lag builds up, you're facing delayed data processing and the risk of system failures.

Need to list all the keys in your Redis database? If you're debugging an issue or just checking what's stored, retrieving all keys is a useful skill for any developer. This guide covers everything you need to know—from the basic commands to the performance implications—so you can query Redis efficiently without slowing things down.

Have you noticed your storage costs rising even when you're keeping an eye on them? The reason might be something easy to overlook: high cardinality data. For data engineers and developers balancing performance and costs, understanding its impact isn’t just useful—it’s key to avoiding unnecessary spending and system slowdowns.

I have a not-so-secret suspicion that the dream of everyone working with technology is the Enterprise computer from Star Trek. Controlling shields, communications, engines, and everything else from a single place—and with voice commands, no less. “One button to rule them all,” as Sauron might whisper. But until that utopia becomes a reality, at least we can implement a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) in our organization’s technology stack.

Cloud migration involves transferring digital assets, services, databases, applications, and IT resources from on-premises infrastructure to cloud environments. A well-executed cloud migration can reduce operational costs, improve scalability, enhance flexibility, and boost performance. Organizations can shift from capital-intensive infrastructure to more predictable pay-as-you-go expenses while scaling resources to match needs.

As part of Atlassian’s ongoing investment in security, we’re introducing new controls to help administrators manage authentication tokens more effectively and securely. To reduce the risk of long-lived credentials becoming security vulnerabilities, all newly created access tokens in Bitbucket will require an expiry duration, as determined by the workplace admin.