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Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’ll look at three steps a business can take to protect themselves from disinformation. Over the past three years, your two-person startup has gained enough traction to turn into a 500-employee business. Your life’s work is materializing in front of your eyes, and it’s only uphill from here.

This is an updated version of an earlier blog post to reflect current definitions of a telemetry pipeline and additional capabilities available in Mezmo Our recent blog post about observability pipelines highlighted how they centralize and enable telemetry data actionability. A key benefit of telemetry pipelines is users don't have to compare data sets manually or rely on batch processing to derive insights, which can be done directly while the data is in motion.

As more organizations move their databases to cloud-native environments, effectively managing and monitoring these systems becomes crucial. According to Coroot’s anonymous usage statistics, 64% of projects use PostgreSQL, making it the most popular RDBMS among our users, compared to 14% using MySQL. This is not surprising since it is also the most widely used open-source database worldwide.

As work environments for entire industries continue to evolve between on-site, remote, and hybrid models, the performance of IT operations (ITOps) teams is more critical than ever. If you need proof, just remember the global impact of the CloudStrike outage. Operations teams must monitor, triage, communicate, and manage incidents 24×7 across all services. SaaS, legacy on-premises, and homegrown tools and systems are all stretching to meet business demand. Customer expectations are ever-increasing.

In a recent webinar, BigPanda CEO Assaf Resnick noted that for the last 15 years, CIOs staked their reputations on how effectively they could move their enterprises to the cloud. Assaf predicts CIOs will focus on integrating generative AI into their enterprises over the next 10 years to deliver tangible business value. IT operations (ITOps) and IT service management (ITSM) offer significant opportunities to incorporate AI to enhance and accelerate their processes.

In an era where regulatory frameworks like DORA and FCA PS21/3 and PRA PS6/21 demand higher standards for financial resilience, European financial entities face growing pressures to ensure compliance and operational excellence. To understand these challenges, we spoke with Lee Fredricks, Director of Solutions Consulting for EMEA at PagerDuty.

In the fast-paced world of financial services, IT downtime can disrupt operations, compromise customer trust, and cause significant financial losses. With customer-facing applications running on intricate architectures involving hybrid infrastructures, maintaining operational efficiency and availability is a constant challenge.

Dive into the highlights of our webinar Q&A with Aviatrix for expert guidance on how to streamline your network using Aviatrix and Megaport. Co-authored by Tim McConnaughy, Technical Marketing Engineer, Aviatrix In September 2024, we held a webinar with Aviatrix that had our team buzzing for weeks afterwards.

As the Product Manager for Honeycomb’s new frontend product, Honeycomb for Frontend Observability, I’ve had the joy this past year of speaking to dozens of frontend engineering teams about observability. Many frontend teams come from worlds where they either rely on QA and customer reports to identify issues in production, or they use real use monitoring (RUM) and error monitoring tools to catch the most egregious issues.