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Simplifying log data management: Harness the power of flexible routing with Elastic

In Elasticsearch 8.8, we’re introducing the reroute processor in technical preview that makes it possible to send documents, such as logs, to different data streams, according to flexible routing rules. When using Elastic Observability, this gives you more granular control over your data with regard to retention, permissions, and processing with all the potential benefits of the data stream naming scheme. While optimized for data streams, the reroute processor also works with classic indices.

Dynamic Observability Tools for API Live Debugging

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are a crucial building block in modern software development, allowing applications to communicate with each other and share data consistently. APIs are used to exchange data inside and between organizations, and the widespread adoption of microservices and asynchronous patterns boosted API adoption inside the application itself.

Getting Started with Honeycomb Buildevents and GitHub Actions

Buildevents is a small binary used to help instrument builds to generate trace telemetry. It populates the trace with metadata from the GitHub Actions environment so you have details about what occurred throughout the entire build. In this tutorial, learn how to instrument with Buildevents and GitHub actions.

Workshop: 2023 Kubernetes Troubleshooting Challenge

In April, over 350 tech professionals (and a few pirates) participated in the 2023 StackState Kubernetes Troubleshooting Challenge at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU in Amsterdam. It was great to witness so many crewmates using StackState to overcome some of Kubernetes applications' toughest challenges. As a result, we decided to organize a live interactive troubleshooting event in collaboration with the StackState product team.

Federated Data Explained: Empowering Privacy, Innovation & Efficiency

Data is like the oxygen that fuels the digital revolution. While critical and readily available, data becomes dangerous when misused. Leaders and users alike are becoming concerned with how organizations can protect data, especially personal information. It’s a complex and dynamic challenge, making it harder than ever to share data to the extent needed to facilitate innovation and research. To meet these challenges, many organizations are leveraging federated data systems.

Using Data for Good: The Web Vitals Index

RapidSpike is committed to revolutionising website reliability, performance, and security — to make the web faster, safer, and easier for everyone to use. With the direct correlation between website speed and conversion now widely acknowledged, even marginal gains of 0.1% could represent millions of extra revenue for the UK’s largest brands.

How we improved testing Ubuntu on WSL - and how you can too!

As the popularity of Windows Subsystem for Linux increases, the Ubuntu development team is committed to delivering a first class experience for Linux developers on Windows. To achieve this we’ve made improvements to our automated testing workflows via the creation of WSL-specific GitHub actions. In this post, Ubuntu WSL engineer Eduard Gómez Escandell talks us through the motivation for this approach and how you can implement these actions for your own CI workflows.

A Strategic Approach to Replacing Data Historians

Recently, I wrote an article discussing why industrial organizations should migrate from legacy data historians to modern, open source technologies. The reasons for such a migration remain valid; however, it dawned on me that such a heavy-handed approach is not always right for every organization.

Evolution at the edge: what matters when developing an edge strategy?

The evolution of information technology is governed by how businesses adapt to ever-increasing amounts of data. Those businesses most able to exploit more data, win. Terms such as ‘speed’ and ‘agility’ refer to how a business handles and uses this data. Given the 2.5 quintillion bytes created every day, there is a huge opportunity for businesses to create unassailable leadership.