In the area of IT infrastructure management, three terms often surface: observability, monitoring, and telemetry. These concepts, while interconnected, each play a unique role in maintaining system health and performance. Observability, monitoring, and telemetry form the backbone of any robust IT environment. Yet, their differences and interrelations can sometimes blur, leading to confusion. This article aims to demystify these terms, providing clarity on their distinct roles and how they work together.

It’s a fast-paced digital landscape out there. So, building a reliable platform for your customers is crucial. They need assurance that your platform won’t be plagued by bugs, downtime, or outages, ensuring business continuity. This isn’t the stuff of traditional manual testing and quality assurance. Instead, you’ll want to empower your developers and QA teams with solid cloud testing tools.

Cybersecurity threats continue to grow in sophistication and frequency, making robust network security an essential priority for organizations of all sizes. By adopting a structured three-step approach – Identifying who is entering your network, Protecting key assets, and Maintaining good cyber hygiene – businesses can build a resilient defense strategy.

Data security and DevSecOps should be top priorities for every business, but some of us may fear the complexities of implementation. Many organizations are still shelving security concerns in favor of quick IT upgrades and software development. Security is no longer optional. Changes to the laws that govern the collection and use of personal information have forced many to prioritize security sooner rather than later.

In this third and final part of the series, I’ll provide some tips on how to set up your roadmap and effectively demonstrate compliance without overburdening your teams. If you’re just joining the fun now, in our two previous editions we covered who NIS2 applies to and what requirements it sets out. Be sure to have a look at them if you need any additional context.

Open source is one of the most exciting, but often misunderstood, innovations of our modern world. I still remember the first time I installed linux on my laptop, saw the vast array of packages I could install on it, all the utilities and libraries that make it work, all the forum threads filled with advice and debugging and troubleshooting, and I thought: “Wait, all of this is free???” It’s free, you can use it, and it’s awesome.