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Two years ago I wrote a piece in The New Stack about the Future of Ops Careers. Towards the end, I wrote: I described the second category as “operations engineering minus the infrastructure,” dedicated to evaluating and assembling a production stack of third-party platform providers, enabling software engineers to self-serve their services and own their own code in production. I said: That second category I was describing now has a name. We call those teams "platform engineering.".

Have you ever struggled to have efficient visibility into your APM and log data? Have you ever been called on to display real-time data to your Sales or Marketing department, only to find yourself fumbling over the numbers without a way to display relevant data? Look no further! Retrace collects huge amounts of data about your application’s health and performance, then provides a customizable display in one place – your customizable APM Dashboards.

G2 has released their Fall 2022 reports, and we are thrilled to share that InfluxDB – the purpose- built time series platform, has once again ranked #1 in the G2 Grid for Time Series Databases. InfluxDB has also held its leading position in the Momentum Grid for Time Series Databases. The Momentum Grid® identifies products that are on a high growth trajectory based on user satisfaction scores, employee growth, and digital presence.

We are happy to announce that we have released a brand-new SCOM Management Pack for monitoring Citrix Desktop as a Service (DaaS). Citrix DaaS is a Citrix Cloud service that allows you to securely deliver virtual apps and desktops from on-premise data centers and public cloud platforms in a hybrid deployment.

Processing, storing, and sending data is at the heart of how we communicate and get business done. This involves implementing various applications, software, and mobile devices that together form an intricate web to process data and information. Programmers will often use message brokers to facilitate this constant flow of information. Message brokers and Pub/Sub messaging systems are instrumental in allowing applications, services, and systems to communicate effectively.

AIOps has been shrouded in mystery since its inception in 2017- offering little guidance beyond the promise of AI/ML-driven insights. To make AIOps less of a mystery, the experts from Forrester Research have tried to help...

The Datadog platform has evolved to meet the needs of organizations that are investing in cloud-based solutions and modernizations. These organizations need professionals that are highly skilled and understand how to get the most out of the Datadog platform. With our suite of products, features, and tools in mind, we wanted to offer a path for individuals to demonstrate their knowledge of our best-in-class monitoring platform and their understanding of observability best practices.

Maximizing the value of streaming data requires carefully navigating operational tradeoffs when developing and managing cloud native applications. Organizations that are rapidly producing and processing high volumes of data — like Netflix, Salesforce, Shopify and even the United States Postal Service (USPS), are constantly applying and testing new methods to manage the complexity of data streaming in the cloud.