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Real-time Linux with Ubuntu: low-latency performance for embedded systems

Need deterministic response times for latency-sensitive applications? In this session, Edoardo Barbieri (Product Manager at Canonical) breaks down the fundamentals of real-time Linux on Ubuntu, and how it meets the demands of telco, industrial automation, and robotics use cases. Learn how Ubuntu enables predictable, low-latency performance across embedded environments. Subscribe. Fuel your curiosity.

How to benchmark Elasticsearch performance with ingest pipelines and your own logs

When setting up an Elasticsearch cluster, one of the most common use cases is to ingest and search through logs. This blog post focuses on getting a benchmark that will tell you how well your cluster will handle your workload. It allows you to create a reproducible environment for testing things out. Do you want to change the mapping of something, drop some fields, alter the ingest pipeline?

What is PagerDuty? Key Features & Benefits Explained

PagerDuty. You’ve probably heard it mentioned during outages or seen it in tech forums. Maybe your DevOps team talks about it, or you found it while looking for ways to handle system failures. So, what is PagerDuty exactly? And why do teams rely on it? This post breaks down PagerDuty in simple terms, explores its key features and benefits, and shows you how to get started. We’ll also introduce you to a PagerDuty alternative that might work better for your team’s needs.

CloudWatch vs OpenTelemetry: Choosing What Fits Your Stack

Choosing the right observability setup isn’t just a checkbox—it affects how quickly you can detect issues, debug them, and keep your systems reliable. CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry take different paths to that goal: one is a managed service tightly coupled with AWS, the other a flexible, open-source framework that's becoming a go-to in modern monitoring stacks.

Reducing Database Complexity and Size using Subsetting | The Tony and Tonie Show

Getting realistic test data from large production databases can be a challenge, especially when you're trying to keep dev environments lightweight and secure. Tony and Tonie discuss how subsetting CLI in Redgate Test Data Manager will help you quickly generate smaller, fully representative subsets automatically.

This Month in Datadog: OpenTelemetry Collector distribution, GitHub Copilot integration, and more

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. To learn more about Datadog and start a free 14-day trial, visit Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog. This month, we put the Spotlight on the Datadog Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector.