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Operational excellence is a must for any military member, with decision-makers needing up-to-date and relevant intelligence to plan and manage an operation. Achieving decision advantage ensures an operation’s decision-makers have the intelligence they need to coordinate operations and use their teams and resources most effectively. As the military aims to achieve decision advantage, decision support systems (DSSs) and secure collaboration tools have become an integral part of these efforts.

Hey there! Oscar here. After spending countless hours wrestling with various monitoring tools and proprietary solutions, I wanted to share my thoughts on what I believe is revolutionizing the observability landscape: OpenTelemetry (OTel). OpenTelemetry revolutionizes observability in distributed systems.

You can think about a website the same way you think about your car. Every time something breaks, a professional—an engineer or a mechanic—usually charges a high amount for the fix (isn’t it annoying when you can’t tell if it’s a big or small fix?). Alternatively, you can learn some basics, get a few inexpensive tools, and troubleshoot many of the immediate issues yourself.

As applications become more complex, managing containers efficiently is key to scaling and maintaining performance. Kubernetes (also known as K8s) automates this process, making it easier to handle scaling, failures, and uptime. If you're new to Kubernetes, understanding the platform and how it's used is essential for managing your applications seamlessly. Let’s dive in and explore how Kubernetes makes it all possible.