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Announcing support for Graviton2-powered AWS Fargate deployments

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine that allows you to deploy containerized applications on services like Amazon ECS without needing to provision or manage compute resources. Now, Datadog is proud to be a launch partner with Amazon for their support of AWS Fargate workloads running on Graviton2, Amazon’s proprietary ARM64 processor.

DevOps State of Mind Podcast Episode 2: Giving People the Power to Participate

‍Sean Tierney is the DevOps lead at Athos, a company that's building better athletes through smart clothing and AI. Sean reinforces a DevOps state of mind across the organization by building empathy between hardware and software teams and putting the systems in place to allow them to move faster as a single unit.

Cloud-optimized Linux kernels - what makes Ubuntu the top OS across the clouds

Ubuntu is the platform of choice for deploying and running workloads on public clouds. No other operating system gives you better performance and consistency of experience across public clouds, including Amazon, Azure, Google, IBM and Oracle. There is a reason behind this exceptional experience. By design, Ubuntu images in public clouds include an optimized Linux kernel for each cloud, giving you the best performance and functionality across all instance types and services.

Observability vs. monitoring debate: An irreverent view

In the past few years, the word “observability” has steadily gained traction in the discussions around monitoring, DevOps, and, especially, cloud-native computing. However, there is significant confusion about the overlap or difference between observability and monitoring.

ServiceNow acquires DotWalk to increase speed, agility in upgrading applications

Delivering both constant innovation and consistently great experiences with software offerings is becoming a critical business imperative in the new world of hybrid work. As a result, more companies are transforming to become software companies—creating the need to quickly and continuously upgrade software applications and technology foundations. Easier said than done? Not anymore.

Crossplane and Shipa 101 - Your First Crossplane Abstraction

Kubernetes is viewed as one of the great equalizers between development and operations teams. Simply write a manifest and the declarative power of Kubernetes is off to fulfill your desired state. Kubernetes is certainly pluggable and has the ability to be extended / opinions being swapped internally. As any IT organization can tell you, even with Kubernetes there is a lot of integration work, and several parts of the stack such as IaC have been left outside of Kubernetes.