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Burnout Doesn't Ask Permission: Recognizing, Recovering, and Rebuilding w/ Stephen Townsend

Burnout doesn't announce itself. For Stephen Townsend, SRE team lead and host of the Slight Reliability podcast, it crept in over months of mounting pressure on a massive transformation program, and announced itself overnight with an inability to sleep. In this episode, Stephen shares his personal burnout story with rare honesty: the physical symptoms he dismissed, the org structure that left him without autonomy, and the full year it took to recover.

What does investigation look like when data lives in multiple tools?

War rooms don’t fix fragmentation. They expose it. Incident hits. App checks traces. Infra checks hosts. Cloud checks dashboards. Network checks packets. Everyone sees their layer. No one sees the system. So we guess. Rollback. Add capacity. Freeze change. The noise stops. The constraint doesn’t. Modern failures don’t live in tools. They live in dependencies. If your platform can’t follow a transaction across hybrid and AI infrastructure — to the exact constraint — you don’t have observability.

Telemetry Talks ep.2 - How to use OpenTelemetry in VictoriaMetrics Cloud

Telemetry Talks – Episode is here! In this episode, Diana and Jose introduce VictoriaMetrics Cloud, covering what it is, the problems it solves, and its pricing model, including how overages are handled. If you’re building or operating cloud-native systems and want a clearer, real-world understanding of OpenTelemetry and managed observability, this episode is for you. Resources for Further Learning.

Attention, Incident Responders! This mobile app makes you an Incident Response Superhero

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When was the term artificial intelligence coined?

Discover when the term artificial intelligence was first introduced and how it shaped the future of AI research and machine learning. This video breaks down the origin of AI and its historical significance in modern technology. About Elastic Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.

Enabling Proactive ITOps with Skylar Advisor

By continuously connecting signals across your IT environment, Skylar Advisor turns operational complexity into clear, prioritized guidance. It highlights potential impact, explains why it matters, and delivers clear next steps so IT teams can act early and stay ahead of alerts before they turn into issues.