Elastic Bots: Analyzing Conversational AI for Artificial Capability Equivalence, Cognitive assistants, virtual agents, and chatbots have taken the world by storm and are now making their way into the large enterprise space. AI and machine learning initiatives are hot on every CxO ticket for 2019, but most organizations are unsure how they should measure the success of their investment and its effectiveness on the enterprise.

Rancher Labs is excited to announce the preview of Rancher 2.3.0 with support for Windows containers for Windows Server 2019 and Kubernetes 1.14.

Rancher Labs is excited to announce the immediate availability of k3OS -- a new lightweight operating system purpose-built for its popular k3s Kubernetes distribution. Announced in February, k3s is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution designed to run Kubernetes in resource-constrained environments.

Datadog recently hosted the NYC Kafka Meetup. Presenters included Jamie Alquiza (Datadog), Stephen Dotz (NY Times) and Michael Kaminski (NY Times). Jamie shared how Datadog conducts capacity planning for Kafka, and the NY Times team shared how their publishing pipeline works.

As more organizations benefit from the increased availability and security offered by multi-cluster Kubernetes, the release of Submariner now enables containers in different clusters to establish a direct network connection with each other.

Video recording of the CFEngine talk by Ole Herman Schumacher Elgesem at Config Management Camp 2019 in Gent, Belgium.

This recording is from the Elasticsearch Boston Meetup on January 15 at Facebook -- big thanks to the team there for this awesome video.

In this meetup, we introduce our multi-tenant Prometheus functionality. Running Kubernetes clusters with multiple isolated tenants provides some challenges for the cluster operators. Rancher's new feature ensures consistent and secure monitoring for users in the cluster and project scopes.

A change to a single line of code sent the prices of thousands of products on Amazon to a penny. Taking care of customers and focusing on engineering best practices allowed a company to survive and thrive after a "make or break" event.

Once upon a time, our hosted DB provider had a terrible security incident, causing us to take down the entire product for 24 hours. This is a story about the aftermath: the downtime, the incident response, how we got back up, and how we communicated with customers.