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Fastify stands out among Node.js web frameworks for its obsessive focus on performance and boasts impressive benchmarks, with throughput often 2-3x higher than Express and other popular alternatives. But here's the paradox: without proper visibility, even applications with a good foundation will degrade over time as you add features and complexity.

Distributed tracing data is a unique and powerful observability signal, allowing you to understand how your services interact and the relationships between them. Sometimes it can be difficult, however, to turn raw tracing data into actionable insights. This is exactly why we introduced Grafana Traces Drilldown, an application that lets you quickly investigate and visualize your tracing data through a simplified, queryless experience.

When you’re a global leader in AI-assisted hiring, speed matters. Not just in matching candidates to jobs, but in making the engineering and financial decisions that keep your platform running efficiently. For HireVue, fragmented infrastructure, manual processes, and sprawling spreadsheets turned cloud cost management into a time-consuming spelunking expedition.

Most SaaS companies aren’t spending too much on AI. They’re just completely screwing up how they price it. You feel the budget pressure. The OpenAI and Anthropic bills keep climbing. Finance is starting to twitch. So the instinct is to cut. Trim back experiments. Cap usage. Beg your team to “optimize.” You can’t cost-cut your way out of a pricing failure though. And most of the time, that’s all this is — a pricing failure.

Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is essential for any organization that handles credit card data, and it extends far beyond databases and payment gateways. One area often overlooked is file transfer workflows, which can pose serious risks if not properly secured.

Efficiency has never been so vital for IT departments and MSPs—it’s a necessity. Endpoints need constant patching, security threats evolve daily, and service requests never stop coming. For many IT teams, the biggest challenge isn’t solving complex problems—it’s finding the time to do it all. That’s why Pulseway’s new AI-powered workflow generator is a breakthrough for IT operations.

I’ve previously covered how eG Innovations AIOps-powered monitoring benefits those working with Digital Workspaces or leveraging APM; today, I’ll cover how those same AI-powered capabilities benefit those supporting cloud hosted architectures and workloads.

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VXLAN overlays bring flexibility to modern data centers, but they also hide what operators most need to see: true host-to-host and service-to-service traffic. Kentik restores that visibility by decoding VXLAN from sFlow, exposing both overlay endpoints and underlay paths in a single view without the cost and complexity of pervasive packet capture — the result: faster troubleshooting, smarter capacity planning, and confident operations at scale.

When your service goes down at 3 AM, how do you communicate with your customers? This question keeps DevOps teams and customer success managers awake at night, and for good reason. The way you handle incident communication can make the difference between retaining customer trust and watching it evaporate. Status pages have become the standard solution for incident communication, but there's a critical decision every organization faces: should your status page be public or private?