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Understanding APM and Distributed Tracing in the Observability Stack

To keep modern applications running smoothly, you need more than just basic monitoring. APM (Application Performance Monitoring) gives you a broad overview, tracking metrics like latency, errors, and system health. Distributed Tracing, on the other hand, shows the full journey of each request across services, helping you pinpoint the root cause of slowdowns or failures.

How to Reduce IT Costs on Hardware Refresh Cycles

IT budgets are under pressure, and hardware refresh costs continue to climb. For End User Computing (EUC) and IT professionals, the traditional time-based approach to managing device lifecycles is no longer viable. Simply replacing laptops and desktops every three to five years doesn’t reflect actual device performance, usage patterns, or business needs. The solution? A smarter, data-driven hardware refresh strategy that balances performance, cost-efficiency, and employee experience.

How to Deploy Helm Charts on Kubernetes the Easy Way with Qovery

Deploying Helm charts on Kubernetes can be complex, especially when dealing with configuration overrides, security, and environment-specific setups. In this article, we show how Qovery simplifies Helm chart deployment through a seamless developer experience, robust security defaults, and powerful automation, without sacrificing flexibility.

What Is Session Replay and How It Improves User Experience in IT Environments

Anyone who works in technology quickly learns this truth: users will always interact with systems in the most unexpected and baffling ways… and when something goes wrong, they swear they “didn’t touch anything.” There’s a vast ocean between how something is designed and how it’s actually used—an ocean filled with bugs waiting to be caught. But there’s a way to bridge that gap: session replay.

Observability Across Asia-Pacific: What's Holding Teams Back? | 2025 Observability Survey Analysis

What’s holding back observability maturity in Asia-Pacific? Grafana Labs' cofounder Anthony Woods shares key takeaways from the largest global observability survey. Learn how SaaS, budget concerns, and org structure are shaping Asia-Pacific (APAC)'s future. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.

The Road to Loki 4.0 (Loki Community Call June 2025)

In this Loki Community Call, we welcome back Ed Welch, Principal Engineer on the Loki team. We will be discussing with Ed what is next for Loki as we push forward to Loki 4.0. If you are interested, learn more about potential architecture changes, storage formats, and an open discussion on where Ed and the Loki team would like to see the future of Loki, then make sure you join us live and have your questions answered!

Kubernetes Costs: More Than Meets The Eye

As organizations expand their Kubernetes deployments and scale production workloads, effective cost management becomes an essential priority. The rapid innovation demanded from development teams often intersects with a shortage of advanced Kubernetes expertise, leading to resource inefficiencies and unnecessary expenses. This challenge is further amplified by the growing prevalence of AI/ML workloads and the intricate demands of GPU utilization.

#046 - Simulating, Scheduling, and Saving: Optimizing Kubernetes with David Morrison (Applied Res...

In this episode, Itiel has an insightful conversation with Dr. David Morrison, a research scientist and founder specializing in Kubernetes scheduling and autoscaling. David shares his journey from operations research to leading distributed systems efforts at tech giants like Yelp and Airbnb. Learn about the transition from Apache Mesos to Kubernetes at Yelp, including the role of their open-source API layer, Pasta.