Cloudcraft is a tool that lets cloud architects design and visualize cloud infrastructure. It acts as a digital canvas, helping you map out everything from simple diagrams to complex systems. If you’re working on a project plan or brainstorming ideas, Cloudcraft makes it easier to see how all the pieces come together. In this post, we’ll talk about what makes Cloudcraft useful for cloud professionals and how to get the most out of it.

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.

Grafana Tempo 2.7 is here, and while the latest release is primarily focused on performance and operational improvements, we managed to sneak in some new TraceQL features, too!

Azure AI Search transforms unstructured data into actionable insights, making it ideal for enterprise search, knowledge mining, or customer-facing applications. This guide offers a step-by-step approach to building your first POC—from setting up resources and defining KPIs to deploying a functional application. You’ll learn core POC components, how to organize datasets, enhance search with Azure OpenAI, and evaluate results effectively. Let’s get started!

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.