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7 Quick Tips for Working with Traces in OpenTelemetry

Avoiding vendor lock-in is a ‘must’ when it comes to working with new services. Those in ITOps, DevOps, or as an SRE also don’t want to be tied to specific vendors when it comes to their telemetry data. And that’s why OpenTelemetry’s popularity has surged lately. OpenTelemetry prevents you from being locked into specific vendors for the agents that collect your data.

Why Am I Seeing NGINX 502 Bad Gateway: PHP-FPM?

The NGINX Error 502 Bad Gateway is a common error among website users. There are various possible reasons for this error and different ways to solve it. In this article, we will look at the main possible causes and how they can be solved by users and web developers. Use MetricFire's platform to analyze your system’s performance and troubleshoot errors.

Boosting Customer Experience with RFID-enabled Self-checkout in Retail Industry

In recent years, self-checkout systems have become increasingly popular in retail stores. These systems enable customers to scan and bag their items themselves, reducing the time spent waiting in line and improving the overall shopping experience. However, traditional self-checkout systems require customers to manually enter the product code or scan the barcode, which can be time-consuming and frustrating.

Multiple players, one stack: Inside Roblox's centralized observability stack

When you sign into the Roblox platform, you get 30 million immersive experiences, ranging from concerts to fashion shows to, of course, video games. But when the observability team at Roblox logs on, they’re not playing around. The Roblox observability engineers are responsible for keeping more than 214 million monthly users happy and engaged by making the wildly popular gaming platform highly available around the world.

Speed Up and Scale Amazon EKS Cluster Deployments with New VMware Tanzu Mission Control Features

The public preview for lifecycle management of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters through VMware Tanzu Mission Control allowed users to create, update/scale, upgrade, and delete clusters with native Amazon EKS APIs through Tanzu Mission Control. Today, we are announcing this feature’s general availability (GA), including powerful capabilities based on customer feedback.

How RFID technology can optimize asset utilization in offices

Offices are complex environments where assets are always moving, from furniture and equipment to files and documents. Tracking these assets can be a difficult and time-consuming process. RFID technology can help optimize asset utilization in offices by providing real-time visibility and location tracking of these assets.

New Chrome and Edge zero-day exploits: How to patch CVE-2023-2033 and CVE-2023-2136

Two new zero-day exploits that affect the Chromium browser core were reported on April 14th. And since both Chrome and Microsoft Edge are based on it, Google advised to update the browsers. The vulnerabilities CVE-2023-2033 and CVE-2023-2136 can lead to remote code execution and have already been fixed. But that doesn't mean that's the end of the problem.

Distributed systems: Because a single computer can't deal with your procrastination

In our eagerness to bring you all the definitions of the world of technology we hired a sherpa, with calves made of steel, who travels the confines of the Himalayas collecting the most exclusive and inaccessible information from temple to temple. Because everyone knows it, the greatest secrets of technology are kept by the monks of monasteries like those of Rizong, Jammu or Kashmir, not the Internet.

RFID solutions for efficient inventory management in retail

Introduction: Efficient inventory management is the backbone of any successful retail business. With the rise of e-commerce, consumers have more options than ever, which means retailers must prioritize a streamlined supply chain to stay competitive. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) solutions have become increasingly popular in recent years as a way to improve inventory management.

Now Available: The Flight SQL Plugin for Grafana

Today we have exciting news for Grafana customers with Flight SQL data sources: Now there is a new community plugin available for Grafana that allows it to communicate with Flight-SQL-compatible databases. Flight SQL is a client-server protocol developed by the Apache Arrow community for interacting with SQL databases. It utilizes the Flight RPC framework and the Arrow in-memory columnar format.