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From its humble beginnings, Kubernetes’ growth story continues to be a testament to the power of open-source collaboration, and its current 1.28 second release is certainly no exception. It’s not just a product of ingenious coding but also the sweat and night oil of a global community – from seasoned industry stalwarts to students just making their debut in the open-source world.

Our August update brings the ability to export shift scheduling from SIGNL4 to other calendar apps. In addition, video attachments are now supported for Signls. As always, all the details are in this blog article.

Observability is being built by engineers for engineers. In reality, o11y is for all.

Why is it critical to know and implement the best firewalls for small businesses? Well, cybercrime in information technology development has reached new heights, and according to Cybersecurity Ventures, the damage it causes to the online landscape is forecasted to grow to $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. Phishing, malware, account takeover, credential abuse, ransomware, cryptojacking, and zillions of other severe cyber security attacks are commonplace these days.

Observability solutions can easily and rapidly get complex — in terms of maintenance, time and budgetary constraints. But observability doesn’t have to be hard or expensive with the right solutions in place. The future of your observability can be a bright one.

Modalova is an up-and-coming French ecommerce marketplace offering a curated selection of top brands like ASOS, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, and Adidas. Modalova's mission is to bring the best in men's and women's fashion on one site to simplify the online shopping experience — no more opening 35 tabs to find the right article. No more downloading 50 different apps to find the right size — it's all in one location!

Docker is designed for Linux. It works most efficiently on Linux systems due to its close integration with the Linux kernel. When handling large filesystems, like the ones built with PHP and Node, Docker desktop (MacOS Environment) experiences significant lag. The main reason is how file synchronization is implemented in Docker for Mac. Plus, disk space consuming behavior of such big PHP Projects.

Last October, Splunk Observability Evangelist Jeremy Hicks wrote a great piece here about the Four Golden Signals of monitoring. Jeremy’s blog comes from the perspective of monitoring distributed cloud services with Splunk Observability Cloud, but the concepts of Four Golden Signals apply just as readily to monitoring traditional on-premises services and IT infrastructure.

Grafana Loki is an open source logs database built on object storage services in the cloud. These services are an essential component in enabling Loki to scale to tremendous levels. However, like all SaaS products, object storage services have their limits — and we started to crash into those limits in Grafana Cloud Logs, our SaaS offering of Grafana Loki.

We are excited to announce the publication of our 2023 State of Calico Open Source, Usage & Adoption report! The report compiles survey results from more than 1,200 Calico Open Source users from around the world, who are actively using Calico in their container and Kubernetes environments. It sheds light on how they are using Calico across various environments, while also highlighting different aspects of Calico’s adoption in terms of platforms, data planes, and policies.