
Reflex’s Newly Open-Sourced XY Library Offers Faster Python Charting
A newly open-sourced Python charting library, called XY, from Reflex offers an advantage few other charting tools provide: massive scalability. The library rethinks how to render a set of points on the computer screen, and opens new possibilities for using charts in daily workflows. Most Python charting libraries today, such as Plotly, Bokeh, or Matplotlib, […]

GitHub API Abuse, ‘Ghost’ Accounts Part of Malicious Efforts to Map Organizations
Datadog researchers uncover months-long overlapping campaigns to scrape data about companies and their developers.

Why Data Contracts Need Apache Kafka and Apache Flink
Data contracts prevent breaking schema changes in data pipelines. Learn how Kafka and Flink help specify, implement and enforce them.

DataOps and Automation: The Future of Database Management
Database bottlenecks undermine deployment velocity across businesses. Complex operational tasks introduce delays and outages that directly impact time-to-market. While DevOps has transformed application delivery, database management remains manual and error-prone, reinforcing the friction DevOps aims to eliminate. An alternative is to extend the proven DevOps practices into database operations through a DataOps approach. By treating […]

DevOps-Driven Product Development: Enhancing Collaboration and Speed
Exploring how PMs can incorporate DevOps methodologies into their workflows to drive efficiency, break down silos and enable rapid product iterations.

AIOps Success Requires Synthetic Internet Telemetry Data
The data used to train AI models needs to reflect the production environments where applications are deployed.

Database Observability Extends DORA Metrics and More to Database DevOps
Database observability unlocks DORA metrics along with other indicators that matter to your DevOps, application, database and IT teams.

KubeCon 2023: Telemetry and Data Management
Alan Shimel talks with Mezmo’s Tucker Callaway about observability, data management and the challenges of too much telemetry data.

Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter
In this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer.

Why Data Silos Are Killing Your Developer Productivity
Data silos are draining developers’ productivity. Here’s how to break away from these silos with better observability.

There’s No Value in Observability Bloat. Let’s Focus on the Essentials
Most companies only need the essential ingredients to satisfy their observability strategy, which means costs will be much more modest.

Why Enterprises Should Embrace Data-Driven Software Management
A third era of software development management is emerging: It’s not waterfall or agile, it’s data-driven.

Oracle Bill is 5x Client’s Budget ¦ Toyota Out of Space
In this week’s The Long View: Birmingham looks like the Detroit of the UK—is it Oracle’s fault? Plus: Was Toyota’s factory failure caused by running out of disk space?

80% of Bosses ‘Regret’ Stopping WFH ¦ PSA: Disable STS!
In this week’s #TheLongView: Rethinking return-to-office mandates and a ridiculous, ancient Windows bug.

Why Your Data Lake Strategy is Broken for Observability
Someone once said, “Life is better at the lake.” That may be true in the physical world, but when it comes to using data lakes for observability, that’s not typically the case. Just about every organization in every industry has a digital presence, whether it’s a website, an app or another digital service. This makes […]

US DoJ Makes PyPI Give Up User Data ¦ Tape Storage: Not Dead
In this week’s #TheLongView: PyPI complies with a “string of subpoenas,” and LTO continues to grow, despite predictions of its demise.

Linux 6.3: What’s New ¦ AWS Layoffs are a Worry
In this week’s #TheLongView: A new Linux kernel drops and layoffs at Amazon Web Services point to trouble.

Linux Tweak Brings Big Speedup ¦ DCs in SPAAACE (Redux) ¦ Atlassian Fires 500
In this week’s #TheLongView: Intel optimizes Linux multithreaded networking, data centers in space (again), and more DevOps layoffs.

How Embedded Analytics Can Transform Future Businesses
It’s no secret that big tech companies like Google, Amazon and Netflix are not only leveraging data but also delivering embedded analytics and insights as a standard functionality of their software, services, applications and toolkits. The analytics appear to consumers as recommendations, usage habits and other helpful information. Such insights not only help consumers extract […]

Best of 2022: Agile/Scrum is a Failure – Here’s Why
In this week’s The Long View: Agile and Scrum are increasingly getting a bad reputation, being associated with the worst aspects of toxic workplace culture.

Cisco Unveils 800G Networking Platform to Advance DataOps
At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit conference, Cisco announced it developed an 800-gigabit switch that consumes significantly less power than the previous generation of its networking equipment. Thomas Scheibe, vice president of product management for cloud networking for Cisco’s Nexus and ACI product line, said the throughput provided by the latest 7-nanometer iteration […]

5 Ways to Transform DataOps With Human-in-the-Loop Automation
We are in the middle of a data renaissance. Today, it’s not just about data instrumentation but also learning how to make DataOps a real business advantage for the entire organization. Data has become an inextricable part of products, used to enhance the quality of user experiences. Reliable access to data and the integrity of […]

Where DataOps and Opportunities Converge
In today’s data age, getting data analytics right is more essential than ever. A robust data analytics implementation enables businesses to hit key performance metrics, build data and AI-driven customer experiences (think ‘personalize my feed’) and capture operational issues before they spiral out of control. The list of competitive advantages goes on, but the bottom […]
