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Platform Engineering 101: Origins, Goals, DevOps vs SRE & Best Practices

Platform engineering is the practice of automating infrastructure operations and enabling self-service infrastructure capabilities within collaborative Dev, Ops and QA teams. It involves designing and building platforms, technologies and workflows that enable self-service capabilities to automatically manage, provision and operate complex modern software architecture environments.

Enhancing Datadog Observability with Telemetry Pipelines

Datadog is a powerful observability platform. However, unlocking it’s full potential while managing costs necessitates more than just utilizing its platform, no matter how powerful it may be. It requires a strategic approach to data management. Enter telemetry pipelines, a key to elevating your Datadog experience. Telemetry pipelines offer a toolkit to achieve the essential steps for maximizing the value of your observability investment. The Mezmo Telemetry Pipeline is a great example of such.

Cloud Migrations with Cribl.Cloud

Cribl’s suite of products help you gain the control and confidence you need to successfully migrate to the cloud. With routing, shaping, enriching, and search functionalities, data becomes more manageable and allows you to work more efficiently. By routing data from existing sources to multiple destinations, you can ensure data parity in your new cloud destinations, before turning off your on-premises (or legacy) analytics, monitoring, storage, or database products and tooling.

Splunk Dashboard Studio Demo in Splunk 9.0

Splunk Dashboard Studio is our new and intuitive dashboard-building experience that allows you to communicate even your most complex data stories. This demo walks you through how to convert an existing Classic Simple XML dashboard to Dashboard Studio and how to leverage Splunk Dashboard Studio to more effectively communicate the data in your dashboard. Follow along to learn about the key capabilities to leverage when building dashboards in Splunk, including how to edit the source code to apply default configurations to multiple objects at once, how to use the configuration panel to easily edit objects, and more tips and tricks to group and stylize your visualizations.

Building a Distributed Security Team With Cjapi's James Curtis

Join Cribl's Ed Bailey and Cjapi's James Curtis as they discuss the challenges of building a distributed global security team. Talent is hard to find and companies are hiring all over the world to build the best teams possible, but this trend has a price. Traditional management processes do not work, from building culture to the basics around assigning, tracking and measuring work. Team leads and managers rarely have the experience and training to handle remote teams which can impact team effectiveness and thus weaken the enterprise security posture.

Four Things That Make Coralogix Unique

SaaS Observability is a busy, competitive marketplace. Alas, it is also a very homogeneous industry. Vendors implement the features that have worked well for their competition, and genuine innovation is rare. At Coralogix, we have no shortage of innovation, so here are four features of Coralogix that nobody else in the observability world has.

Data Centers: The Ultimate Guide To Data Center Cooling & Energy Optimization

Data centers provide a central space to house IT resources required to run applications of any business. To get the best out of data centers, optimizing their performance, scalability, energy efficiency, availability, security and cost-effectiveness is important. Of all those parameters, energy efficiency optimization is one of the most important things organizations must consider, as the consequences of energy-inefficient data centers are significant.

A Fireside Chat with CNCF's CTO on OpenTelemetry (and More!)

KubeCon Europe 2023 will be held in Amsterdam in April, with many exciting updates and discussions to come around projects from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). That’s why I was thrilled to host Chris Aniszczyk, the CTO of the CNCF on the March 2023 episode of OpenObservability Talks. We had a wide-ranging, free-flowing conversation that touched on all things cloud native, observability and the future of our space.