Recently, I stumbled upon an eye-opening NPR podcast that delved into the lingering use of pagers in healthcare—a seemingly outdated technology that continues to drive communication in hospitals. As I listened through the debate around its persistence, discussing challenges and unexpected benefits, it prompted reflections on facilitating a seamless shift to secure phone-app-based texting, acknowledging the considerable advantages it brings.

For this week’s installment of “The concise guide to Loki,” I’d like to focus on an interesting topic in Grafana Loki’s history: ingesting out-of-order logs. Those who’ve been with the project a while may remember a time when Loki would reject any logs that were older than a log line it had already received. It was certainly a nice simplification to Loki’s internals, but it was also a big inconvenience for a lot of real world use cases.

In the business world, shadow IT is a controversial topic. Gartner defines Shadow IT as any IT devices, software and services that are used outside or beyond the ownership or control of IT departments/ organizations. This includes: In a standard work environment, the IT department would be responsible for providing whatever IT solutions and work tools were needed across all business functions.

C-suiter, VP’er, or anyone who’s top of the pile in an enterprise faces inherent pressure that comes part and parcel with the role that they’re taking on. Many of the pressures can’t be overcome, it’s simply the nature of the beast. But dealing with technical issues in their day-to-day life is one of their biggest gripes, because it always feels like a problem that should be solved – not one needing to be dealt with again and again.

The companies we work with at Tanzu by Broadcom are constantly looking for better, faster ways of developing and releasing quality software. But digital transformation means fundamentally changing the way you do business, a process that can be derailed by any number of obstacles. In his recent video series, my colleague Michael Coté identifies 14 reasons why it’s hard to change development practices in large organizations.

There’s a rising and intensifying pressure on financial services institutions that aligns with the demand for modernization, down to the core. It comes from laws like those of the Service Organization Control Type 2 (SOC 2) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDRP), which enforce the need to build and hold down cybersecurity policies.

As data centers grow more complex and power-hungry, rack PDUs are an increasingly important component of data center power circuits. Modern intelligent rack PDUs have many advanced features and work seamlessly with Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software to provide a complete solution for monitoring and managing data center infrastructure. Let’s delve into the key trends shaping rack PDU management in 2024 and beyond.

In Java applications, concurrency issues can be difficult to reproduce and debug. Because work is scheduled nondeterministically across threads, the conditions that have led to an error in one execution of the program may not trigger the same issue the next time around. Exceptions that are silently handled—also known as swallowed exceptions—can also be challenging to debug because they typically do not leave any trace in the logs.

Like everyone else in the world, we are thinking hard about how we can harness the power of AI and machine learning while also staying true to our core values around respecting the security and privacy of our users’ data. If you use Sentry, you might have seen our “Suggested Fix” button which uses GPT-3.5 to try to explain and resolve a problem. We have additional ideas being developed as well that we’re excited to preview.

Orange España, Spain’s second largest mobile operator, suffered a major outage on January 3, 2024. The outage was unprecedented due to the use of RPKI, a mechanism designed to protect internet routing security, as a tool for denial of service. In this post, we dig into the outage and the unique manipulation of RPKI.