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Valkey JSON module now available on Aiven for Valkey

The Valkey JSON module implements native JSON data type support within Valkey, allowing users to efficiently store, query, and modify complex, nested JSON data structures directly. This overcomes previous architectural complexities, such as needing to serialize entire documents as strings or flatten data into hashes, by providing native handling for nested data models.

Closing the Year: What 2025 Taught Us About Resilience

By Doreen Jacobi, DERDACK / SIGNL4 It is that time of the year again. Time to reflect and look back at 2025. And I find myself thinking less about platforms and features – and more about the people behind them. The engineers who pick up the phone at 2 a.m. The operators who make judgment calls with incomplete information. The responders who keep systems running when everything feels urgent. If this year taught us anything, it’s this: technology can detect the problem, but people solve it.

Building a Code Review system that uses prod data to predict bugs

This post takes a closer look at how Sentry’s AI Code Review actually works. As part of Seer, Sentry’s AI debugger, it uses Sentry context to accurately predict bugs. It runs automatically or on-demand, pointing out issues and suggesting fixes before you ship. We know AI tools can be noisy, so this system focuses on finding real bugs in your actual changes—not spamming you with false positives and unhelpful style tips.

How To Connect Your Prometheus Server to a Grafana Datasource

Prometheus is one of the most popular open-source monitoring systems in the world. It’s lightweight, easy to deploy, and pairs beautifully with Grafana for dashboards and alerting. If you're running applications or infrastructure on Linux, Prometheus plus one of many Exporters (Redis, NVIDIA GPU, Nginx, etc.) gives you deep visibility into service performance - quickly and reliably.

AI for IT Operations: How AIOps is Transforming IT Performance & Service Reliability

Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations ingests telemetry across logs, traces, events, resource signals, runtime behavior, and application pathways. AI for IT operations reduces alert noise, correlates events into unified narratives, predicts degradation, and drives remediation logic with pattern-based execution. Telemetry growth makes manual triage slow, while inference scales linearly with data.

KubeCon Atlanta 2025 & the AI-Native Shift

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta marked a definitive moment for cloud-native infrastructure. Over four days, celebrating the 10th anniversary of both CNCF and Kubernetes, more than 9,000 attendees witnessed the ecosystem’s evolution from container orchestration to AI-native operations. The conference delivered a clear message – AI workloads are no longer experimental.

Capture high-value traces without managing a pipeline: Tail sampling with Adaptive Traces

Tracing is the richest observability signal in common use today. In distributed systems, it reveals how requests flow across multiple services, allowing you to uncover and address performance bottlenecks. Teams often scale back or abandon tracing altogether, however, because most successful requests produce redundant data that’s noisy and expensive to store.

Why OpenTelemetry instrumentation needs both eBPF and SDKs

As a vendor-neutral open standard, OpenTelemetry has become the default choice for application instrumentation. However, it’s important to remember that OpenTelemetry isn’t a single technology — it’s an ecosystem. Under the hood, it provides multiple options for instrumenting your applications. In this blog post, we explore two instrumentation approaches: OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation and runtime-specific OpenTelemetry SDKs, like the OpenTelemetry Java agent.

Don't Let Your Tech Costs Grow Out Of Control

Modern digital tech is playing an increasingly important and growing part in our home lives. This is especially true for those who work from home or have kids who use home tech to do their homework. With its increasing use in leisure, our work-lives, education, and maintaining our quality of life, it can come with a fairly sizeable role on our budget, as well. Here, we're going to look at how you can help get things back under control so that you don't end up going bankrupt over your digital bills.