We're only one month into 2025, but the momentum keeps building at Bindplane. In January, we rebranded our company as Bindplane, aligning our company name with our core mission: delivering the best OpenTelemetry-native telemetry pipeline on the market. Building on that excitement, we have another announcement: we've expanded and extended our partnership with Google Cloud.

Ever wonder how the Internet actually works? It’s not just magic (though it sometimes feels that way). Behind every webpage you load, every video call you make, and every meme you send, tiny digital messengers called network packets are zipping through cyberspace, carrying data from one point to another. Think of them as the text messages of the Internet; small, efficient, and sometimes frustrating when they don’t arrive on time. But what exactly are network packets? How do they work?

Mission-critical communication networks are the backbone of strategic national assets, including sectors such as energy (electricity, gas, oil, nuclear), transportation, water supply, governmental operations, and military communications.

Bugs don’t announce themselves politely. They crash your checkout flow, break authentication, or slow your API to a crawl—usually right before your CEO asks how things are going. And when the error inbox is flooded with a hundred variations of TypeError: cannot read property of undefined, figuring out what actually matters can feel impossible.

NANOG 93 brought the networking community together for insightful discussions on the future of connectivity, emphasizing continuous learning, adaptation, and collaboration. Justin Ryburn highlights key takeaways from this premier event in the world of networking.

Machine-generated data has exceeded human scalability, straining L1 Ops and Service Desk team resources. Fragmented data across tools, teams, and silos hinders situational awareness, delaying each action – from detection to remediation, making prevention increasingly unattainable. The latest BigPanda updates enhance ITOps and ITSM team efficiency throughout the incident lifecycle.

Developers aren't lazy – but sometimes cloud service defaults can be. Here’s what to look out for, and how Azure is changing the game. Let’s face it: Developers can sometimes be labeled as “laissez faire” when it comes to security. But is that really fair? In reality, it’s not about being lax or lazy; it’s about the default configurations of many cloud services setting the security bar too low on initial deployment.

One of the main pieces of advice about Service Level Objectives (SLOs) is that they should focus on the user experience. Invariably, this leads to people further down the stack asking, “But how do I make my work fit the users?”—to which the answer is to redefine what we mean by “user.” In the end, a user is anyone who uses whatever it is you’re measuring.