Observability, Monitoring and Analytics

How to Alleviate Your Observability Challenges
Observability is becoming a keystone of contemporary DevOps practices. Even departments that weren’t traditionally a part of DevOps are seeing the benefits of being brought under the auspices of observability teams. In ...

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 ...

Raspberry Pi 5: Faster, Better, Stronger — Spendier
In an extra #TheLongView: Everyone’s favorite single-board ARM computer, the Raspberry Pi, has a new generation coming soon ...

FCC: Net Neutrality is a ‘Thing’ Again ¦ Meta Shutters Big UK Site
In this week’s #TheLongView: Network neutrality is back on the FCC’s agenda, and unused London office gets Zucked ...

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? ...

The Tragedy of the Data Commons: Balancing Innovation With Risk
Clean drinking water and fisheries are classic examples of the "tragedy of the commons," the problem in economics and ecology where an individual is incentivized to consume as much of a shared ...

Microsoft’s 9th Outage in 2023 ¦ RISE of RISC-V ¦ Meta Ends WFH
In this week’s #TheLongView: Redmond SaaS keeps failing, RISC-V is RISEing, and Meta is enforcing hybrid work ...

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 ...

Optimizing Prometheus Implementations With Managed Services
Prometheus is a leading metrics-based open source monitoring solution and time series database used across the IT community to collect metrics from systems, applications and services. According to the 2021 Cloud Native ...

New Relic Survey Unearths Observability Challenges
A New Relic survey found only 27% of respondents have achieved full-stack observability with only 5% claiming they have a mature observability practice in place. A third (33%) of respondents also said ...

Agile Sucks (Redux) | Plus: DevOps on Mars
In this week’s The Long View: Agile is bad, but “Wagile” is worse. Plus: This prod is even worse than yours ...

Open Standards Are Key For Realizing Observability
Observability has quickly become a major focus of enterprise DevOps. Yet tool sprawl and complexity can hold some observability initiatives back. The 2022 CNCF Microsurvey on observability trends found that 23% of organizations ...