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Want to make your logs easier to work with? Excluding unneeded logs from indexing reduces noise and may reduce log management costs. In this video, you’ll learn how to: See for yourself how to improve log utilization with Datadog Log Patterns and log exclusion filters. Then set up an alert to track ingestion spikes.

Everyone talks about how great Apache Iceberg is, but nobody warns you about this: without proper maintenance, your tables will bloat, queries will slow down, and your catalog will run out of memory. Here are the 4 critical operations you MUST run regularly. Expiring snapshots prevents metadata bloat (Datadog learned this the hard way with catalog memory pressure). Deleting orphan files cleans up failed writes. Compacting data files keeps streaming workloads fast. Compacting manifests optimizes query planning.

SIGNL4 December 2025 Release – Smarter Workflows, Smoother Shifts.

In this talk, Cassidy gives us a look into GNOME, the open source desktop environment project. Cassidy explains how GNOME has developed over time, the support provided by donations, and what could come next for the project. About Cassidy Cassiy James Blaede is a GNOME Foundation Director, Flathub Contributor, and Co-founder & CXO of Elementary. Ubuntu Summit 25.10 is a showcase for the innovative and the ambitious.

What do Ubuntu Engineers use to test things? In this talk, Tim Anderrson provides a closer look at YARF, a new internal tool used in Ubuntu Engineering for testing the desktop installer alongside other desktop applications. Tim shares a bit about how YARF works, what the Ubuntu Engineering team plan to use it for from an overarching perspective, and how they plan to integrate this tool with the community.

In our tradtional end-of-year DEX Show special episode, Mondelez’s Geoff Wright returns to unpack a wild 2025 for IT, AI and employee experience. Tim, Tom and Geoff riff on AI agents that shop, plan travel and work across your browser tabs, the coming street fight between Windows and Chromebooks, and why younger workers just want a browser and to be left alone. Geoff explores shadow AI, culture and the human resistance to change, plus his Q1 predictions: Google’s big enterprise push, soaring laptop costs, and why experience, empathy and a good laugh still matter more than any shiny new model.

Zander Matheson, Staff Product Manager at Confluent, chats with Hugh at Confluent Current about Kafka war stories.

SIGNL4 ensures an automated delivery of your critical alerts from IT, security systems, machines or sensors. Reliability is provided through features like customizable and versatile notification channels, confirmations, proactive and efficient escalation procedures, swift response and real-time alerting, and mobile accessibility to keep you informed anywhere, anytime.

Watch Coroot’s Root Cause Analysis AI pinpoint the exact cause of an incident and suggest fixes in seconds.