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Real-time Linux with Ubuntu: low-latency performance for embedded systems

Need deterministic response times for latency-sensitive applications? In this session, Edoardo Barbieri (Product Manager at Canonical) breaks down the fundamentals of real-time Linux on Ubuntu, and how it meets the demands of telco, industrial automation, and robotics use cases. Learn how Ubuntu enables predictable, low-latency performance across embedded environments. Subscribe. Fuel your curiosity.

What is PagerDuty? Key Features & Benefits Explained

PagerDuty. You’ve probably heard it mentioned during outages or seen it in tech forums. Maybe your DevOps team talks about it, or you found it while looking for ways to handle system failures. So, what is PagerDuty exactly? And why do teams rely on it? This post breaks down PagerDuty in simple terms, explores its key features and benefits, and shows you how to get started. We’ll also introduce you to a PagerDuty alternative that might work better for your team’s needs.

CloudWatch vs OpenTelemetry: Choosing What Fits Your Stack

Choosing the right observability setup isn’t just a checkbox—it affects how quickly you can detect issues, debug them, and keep your systems reliable. CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry take different paths to that goal: one is a managed service tightly coupled with AWS, the other a flexible, open-source framework that's becoming a go-to in modern monitoring stacks.

Reducing Database Complexity and Size using Subsetting | The Tony and Tonie Show

Getting realistic test data from large production databases can be a challenge, especially when you're trying to keep dev environments lightweight and secure. Tony and Tonie discuss how subsetting CLI in Redgate Test Data Manager will help you quickly generate smaller, fully representative subsets automatically.

How To Use Azure Budget Alerts To Avoid Surprise Bills

You spin up a few test environments. Someone forgets to shut one down. A cost spike hits your Azure bill. And no one saw it coming. Does this sound familiar? Surprise cloud bills are still a thing today. For teams trying to balance innovation with financial discipline, the Azure Budget feature offers a first line of defence against surprise cloud costs.

Why Performance Optimization Should Start at the Architecture Level - Not Just the Frontend

Ask most teams how they plan to optimize performance, and the answer sounds predictable: compress images, lazy-load assets, remove unused CSS, maybe run a Lighthouse audit and fix whatever it screams about. That's all great - until it does nothing. Because truth is, frontend tweaks can only take you so far. If your database queries choke under load, your API returns 1MB JSON blobs, or you're calling third-party services synchronously in the checkout flow - no amount of image compression will save you.

The Best Open-Source Dashboard Tools for 2025: Expert Guide to Choosing the Right One

Table of Contents In today’s digital operations, dashboards aren’t just nice-to-haves—they’re essential. Teams across engineering, product, operations, and business intelligence rely on real-time data visibility to monitor systems, analyze trends, and catch anomalies before they escalate. For many organizations, open-source dashboard tools offer the best combination of flexibility, transparency, and cost-efficiency.

How to test Istio and other service meshes

Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Service meshes bring applications together, but not always reliably. Even the most well-configured Istio deployment can have unexpected reliability risks that aren’t apparent until you’re already in production. Latency, single points of failure, poorly defined APIs—these problems can grow beyond a single service and impact the user experience for your entire application.