In the last few years, fintech enterprises have disrupted the financial services and banking industry by taking everything computing technology offers – from machine learning to blockchain – and turning it up a notch. Traditional financial institutions must now compete with challenger banks offering electronic payment alternatives, peer-to-peer lending, and investment apps.

In the previous article, we learned what distributed tracing is, why it is necessary, how to do tracing, encountered challenges with existing tracing tools, and finally discovered that there is a more mature option available for the industry to adopt in terms of telemetry and observability. In this article, we will be trying to understand OpenTelemetry in more depth. To begin, we will examine how OpenTelemetry addresses some of the issues confronting the observability ecosystem.

Many organizations rely on distributed tracing in Datadog APM to gain end-to-end visibility into the performance of their Kubernetes applications. But as teams grow, it can become impractical for them to manually configure each new application with the libraries and environment variables needed for tracing.

Have you heard about traces? Most likely, yes! Do you confuse it with auditing? Hope not. Today, we're going to talk about tracing, specifically “Distributed Tracing,” and do a deep dive into it. Once we’re familiar with distributed tracing, we will show you how to implement it with OpenTelemetry - a new-age observability framework.

Effective log management is a fundamental aspect of maintaining and troubleshooting today's complex systems and applications. The sheer volume of data generated by various software and hardware components can make it challenging to identify and resolve issues in a timely manner. Open-source log management tools offer a cost-efficient and customizable approach for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing log data.

There are many - maybe too many - programming languages to choose from. One of the most effective ways to assess their popularity is by the number of search queries for each language, across the web. The TIOBE Index is the definitive list of programming languages, ranked in order of search volume popularity as an indication of prominence and public interest. This article lists the top 40 languages on that list, with a brief overview and their pros, cons, and hiring prospects.

eG Innovations is an IGEL Ready partner, and I’m delighted to let you all know that we are a silver sponsor at the IGEL DISRUPT End User Computing (EUC) Forum taking place in Munich, February 14-16, 2023. DISRUPT is a major global event focused on end user computing and the delivery of secure, high-performance digital workspaces to increasingly distributed hybrid workforces, from the cloud.

Tools like Fluentbit and Fluentd make log management more efficient by centralizing log data from multiple sources and providing the ability to monitor and analyze it all in one place. Log management is the practice of collecting, storing, analyzing, and monitoring log data from various systems and applications. This log data can provide valuable insights for organizations such as identifying system issues, troubleshooting problems, detecting security threats, and meeting compliance requirements.

Are Citrix latency causing issues for your end users? Pin-pointing the root-cause of latency can be a challenge because it can occur in any part of the network and in any tier. Knowing where to start troubleshooting can mean the difference between end-users not noticing and a flood of support tickets on the service desk. In this guide I teamed up with eG Innovations to talk about what Citrix latency is, why it matters, and how we can improve it.

Today I’m sharing the exciting news that we have named Lana Vaughan a co-founder of Raygun. What does being a co-founder mean to me? I’ve always started with integrity. A co-founder needs to be somebody you can trust – really trust. When your back is to the wall, and everything feels like it’s not quite right, you need to know you can talk with your co-founder about it. This is a deep trust built over time, from shared challenges.