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Today we are happy to announce StackStorm v3.0.1. This is a first bug fix patch / patch release in the v3.0.x release series. It includes the following bug fixes and improvements...

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Barcelona last week, Weaveworks’ Bryan Boreham and I did a deep-dive session on Cortex, an OSS Apache-licensed CNCF Sandbox project. A horizontally scalable, highly available, long term storage for Prometheus, Cortex powers Grafana Cloud’s hosted Prometheus. During our talk, we focused on the steps that we’ve taken to make Cortex’s query performance awesome.

Containers, along with containerization technology like Docker and Kubernetes, have become increasingly common components in many developers’ toolkits. The goal of containerization, at its core, is to offer a better way to create, package, and deploy software across different environments in a predictable and easy-to-manage way.

We’re very happy to announce that our self-service automation portal for use with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft System Center Orchestrator has now been updated to Version 3! This release brings with it a number of upgrades and general improvements, plus the ability to create your own colour themes, so that you can truly make the portal your own and seamlessly integrate it into your organisation.

In the digital era, state and local government and education (SLED) agencies are increasingly leveraging new technological advances such as mobility, the cloud, and big data to better serve constituents while achieving cost efficiencies.

By 2021, IDC’s Worldwide CIO Agenda 2019 Predictions expects that 70% of CIOs will invest in machine learning and data science techniques for greater agility and innovation in IT operations management. In an AI-enabled future, enterprises will increasingly rely on advanced analytics to address a variety of IT operations use cases, including problem recognition, impact analysis, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and incident resolution.

If you have had any exposure to cloud computing or app development in recent years, you likely have heard the term “cloud native” thrown around. But you might be wondering what exactly that term means, and how it differs from concepts such as “cloud ready” or “cloud enabled.” As a cloud-native service provider, Sumo Logic understands the architecture underpinning this development model. Let’s take a closer look at the cloud-native concept and what it means.

One of the many challenges when building an application is ensuring that it's secure. Whether you're storing hashed passwords, sanitizing user inputs, or even just constantly updating package dependencies to the latest and greatest, the effort to attain a secure application is never-ending. And even though containerization has made it easier to ship better software faster, there are still plenty of considerations to take when securing your infrastructure as well.

Today I have the immense privilege of sharing the exciting news that we have raised $52M in series D funding led by General Catalyst. I am thrilled that all of our existing investors share our vision and chose to invest further in the company.

We’ve all been in the situation where suddenly you are the lone developer on call while everyone is out of pocket. Or in the case of Grafana Labs Director of UX David Kaltschmidt, his then business partner, Grafana Labs VP of Product Tom Wilkie, was checking out for a weekend music fest. “Tom and I founded a company a couple of years ago, and I’m more of a frontend person. Tom did all the backend and devops stuff,” explained Kaltschimdt.