Application Performance Management/Monitoring
Splunk Survey Surfaces Gains in Observability
A global survey of 1,250 observability practitioners, managers and other experts published today by Splunk found that sophisticated observability practitioners are able to cut downtime costs by 90%. That figure is based ...
Increasing Use of SLOs to Enable Observability
Observability is a growing discipline among most IT and operations departments. To release stable software faster, operators need continuous visibility into metrics like performance, uptime and availability. As a result, engineers are ...
Observe, Inc. Dives Deeper Into Observability
Fresh from picking up an additional $70 million in funding, Observe, Inc. announced this week it has added multiple tools, dubbed Data Universe Maps, to its observability platform to visualize all datasets ...
Nobl9 Shares SLO-as-Code Methodology
Nobl9 has released version 1.0 of an open specification for defining service level objectives, dubbed OpenSLO, and, in addition, has defined a repeatable SLO methodology. Kit Merker, Nobl9 COO, said the Service ...
Red Hat Adds Managed Ansible Service on Azure
Red Hat today announced general availability of a managed instance of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Announced at the Red Hat Summit 2022 event, this offering ...
OpenSSF Adds Open Source Package Analysis Tool Prototype
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has made available a prototype of a package analysis tool that has already identified more than 200 malicious packages uploaded to PyPI and npm software components ...
Twitter/Bluesky ADX Algorithm | Cloud Energy Use ‘Tripled’ | Apple Staff are Revolting
In this week’s The Long View: Bluesky—Twitter’s research spinout—opens its ADX algorithm, Irish data-center electricity worries grow, and Apple employees are the latest to rise up against hybrid working ...
Libbpf Vs. BCC for BPF Development
If you’re into Linux development, you've probably heard BPF mentioned over the last few years. BPF stands for Berkeley Packet Filter, and the technology has a large number of use cases. BPF ...
Applause Report Surfaces Functional Testing Issues
An analysis of more than 340,000 bugs collected by Applause, a provider of a testing platform designed to integrate with a range of DevOps platforms, found functional bugs accounted for 68% of ...
GitLab Adds Fourth DORA Metric API to CI/CD Platform
The latest update to GitLab's namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform has added support for the application programming interface (API) for measuring change failure rates. This addition supports the fourth metric as ...
Hasura Adds Join Capability to GraphQL Engine
Hasura today announced it has extended its GraphQL engine to make it possible to join data generated by multiple sources. Hasura CEO Tanmai Gopal said GraphQL Joins makes it possible to join ...
SRE Vs. DevOps: The Wrong Question?
The age-old question about the competition between DevOps and SRE sets up a false dichotomy. DevOps is a methodology while SRE is a team within operations. Although the two are often pitted ...

