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How to Use the Power BI Desktop InfluxDB 3 ODBC Connector

The challenge of storing, processing, and alerting on your time series data is only part of the battle when it comes to deriving value from time-stamped data. While InfluxDB 3 addresses those hurdles with the database and Python processing engine, data analytics teams still need to be able to visualize their data and build dashboards to complete the time series story.

OpenTelemetry Spans Explained: Deconstructing Distributed Tracing

In a microservices architecture, a single user request can pass through multiple services before completing. When performance drops or an error occurs, tracing that journey is the only way to locate the source. Distributed tracing provides that visibility. At its core are OpenTelemetry Spans — units of work that capture what each service does during a request.

Why Your APM Needs Observability - Metrics, Logs, and Traces Explained

Modern software applications are increasingly complex. Microservices, cloud infrastructure, and distributed architectures make it challenging for developers, DevOps engineers, and SREs to maintain high performance and a seamless user experience. Traditional Application Performance Monitoring (APM) provides critical insights into how applications perform, but alone, it often leaves blind spots when it comes to diagnosing issues or understanding the full system behavior.

Your Top Engineers Should Be More than Expensive Button-Pushers

The engineer you pay $200,000 a year just spent an hour copy-pasting data between dashboards. Again. Software engineers have critical skills that are in the highest demand. And yet, many world-class engineers are currently spending too much of their time clearing tickets, routing alerts, and responding to the same types of incidents over and over again. This operational toil is costing you.

Your Next Incident Has Already Started. You Just Haven't Noticed Yet.

The best way to minimize the impact of an incident is to catch it early, before small issues snowball into major disruptions. That requires maintaining healthy systems and ensuring sufficient resources are available when problems arise. But developers and IT operations pros working in large enterprises face a challenge: Complex systems operate in an inherently degraded state. In his essay “How Complex Systems Fail,” Dr.

Meet Olly - The Coralogix AI Observability Agent (Demo)

Olly is Coralogix’s AI-native observability agent that makes observability data fast, accessible, and actionable—for everyone. Traditionally, teams have spent valuable time piecing together dashboards and writing queries to troubleshoot issues. Olly changes that by letting you ask real questions in natural language and delivering instant, intelligent answers from across your logs, metrics, and traces.

What we learnt from our panel discussion on AI in the UK

At Civo Navigate London 2025, we hosted a panel discussion with Josh Mesout, James Faure, Abdul Hummaida, Jonas Vermeulen, and Daniel Miodovnik to discuss the latest trends and challenges in AI adoption. Through this conversation, the panelists covered topics such as the current state of AI adoption to the challenges of scaling AI, and the future of work.

EKS Pricing And Cost Optimization (2025 Guide)

AWS did not intend to build Amazon EKS; it simply had to. Kubernetes adoption beamed light years ahead of AWS’s own managed container orchestration service. This forced AWS to develop a managed service to accommodate customers who wanted to use upstream Kubernetes but did not want to manage it themselves. As soon as AWS got around to it, it knocked the Kubernetes-based container management service out of the park. Not only is Amazon EKS simpler than Kubernetes, but EKS pricing may also be worth it.

The Future of Social Media Marketing: Trends to Watch in 2025-2026

I'll be honest with you-predicting the future of social media feels a bit like trying to catch lightning in a bottle. Just when you think you've figured it out, everything changes. Remember when we all thought Instagram was just for pretty food photos? Or when TikTok was "just a dancing app"? But here's the thing: while platforms evolve and features come and go, there are clear patterns emerging that tell us where we're heading. And if you're running a business or building a brand, paying attention to these trends isn't optional anymore-it's survival.

The Best Online Survival Games in 2025

As we hit the midpoint of 2025, the survival genre continues to thrive, pushing players to their limits with unforgiving worlds, resource scarcity, and high-stakes multiplayer dynamics. Online survival games, in particular, shine by emphasizing cooperation, betrayal, and emergent storytelling among real players. Whether you're taming dinosaurs, raiding bases, or terraforming alien planets, these titles demand strategy, resilience, and quick thinking. Drawing from recent player metrics, community buzz, and critical acclaim, here's our roundup of the top online survival games dominating servers this year.