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Simple Talks Podcast | Episode 4 - Coffee chat with Jason Romans

Host Louis Davidson is joined by regular Simple Talk contributor and community speaker Jason Romans for coffee and a chat. From his early days owning a Commodore 64, juggling retail work with his studies and becoming an ‘accidental DBA’, all the way up to his current position as a Business Intelligence engineer, Jason has quite a few stories to tell. Other topics discussed include a shared love of theme parks, the travel benefits of attending conferences, and the challenges of sharing a name with ‘JSON’…

Navigating Growth: Dave Wilkeson on Becoming the MSP Advisor

In this episode of Now That's IT: Stories of MSP Success, we sit down with Dave Wilkeson, the founder and CEO of MSP Advisor, to uncover the key strategies that propelled him from a tech hobbyist to a renowned leader in the Managed Service Provider (MSP) industry. Dave shares invaluable insights into the critical role of financial discipline in scaling an MSP, offering candid advice he wishes he could give his younger self.

Exploring Ubuntu Confidential VMs with Intel TDX on Google Cloud

Confidential computing is a revolutionary technology that disrupts the conventional threat model of public clouds. In the past, vulnerabilities within the extensive codebase of the cloud’s privileged system software, including the operating system and hypervisor, posed a constant risk to the confidentiality and integrity of code and data in operation. Likewise, unauthorized access by a cloud administrator could compromise the security of your virtual machine (VM).

Getting started with GitHub Data source plugin - Visualize your repos | Grafana

Learn step-by-step how to monitor and visualize your GitHub data by using the Grafana GitHub Data source plugin. It provides a lot of features such as query Commits, Pull Requests, Workflows, Vulnerabilities etc. Join Senior Developer Advocate Syed Usman Ahmad in this complete video tutorial and learn to use the GitHub plugin.

How to Query Span Events with TraceQL | Tempo Tutorial | Grafana Labs

Span events provide many benefits and can help you improve your distributed tracing game. In this video, the Grafana Tempo team goes over when to add span events to your traces. We will show you how to use TraceQL to query for span events to get useful information about your services to help you track down bugs and chase down bottlenecks faster. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces.