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We are pleased to announce the availability of the Kubewarden 1.6.0 stack. This release brings stability, performance and security improvements; all packed with a new major feature. Let’s dig into the changes!

Your code base is growing more and more by the minute alongside the apps your business uses and develops. To give some context, the Linux Foundation Report estimated that “Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) constitutes 70-90% of any given piece of modern software solutions”. This means that 70-90% of your final software possibly depends on OSS.

Blob storage is a cloud-based service offered by various cloud providers, designed to store vast amounts of unstructured data such as images, videos, documents, and other types of files. It is highly scalable, cost-effective, and durable, making it an ideal choice for organizations that need to store and manage large data sets for applications like websites, mobile apps, and data analytics.

The EO 14028 regarding supply chain security and the need to generate a Software Bill of Materials feels closer to more and more organizations. It might feel like a threat - and that’s a fair feeling. The whole topic of Billing of Materials is not new, but it is a relatively recent trend for software.

Our status page product started last year as an experiment. We built a status page product in a hurry over weekends, and to our surprise, it gained a lot of traction. People were using it and giving us feedback, which helped us improve the product over time. And this year, we're thrilled to announce that we have great things planned for our status page product! The new revemped dashboard is part of a larger plan for our status page product. Here's a quick gist of the multiple releases.

Earlier this year, we experienced intermittent timeouts in our application while interacting with our database over a period of two weeks. Despite our best efforts, we couldn’t immediately identify a clear cause; there were no code changes that significantly altered our database usage, no sudden changes in traffic, and nothing alarming in our logs, traces, or dashboards. During that two-week period, we deployed 24 different performance and observability-focused changes to address the problem.

With the growing adoption of automated deployment tools, many organizations are releasing code more frequently. As releases increase, it’s important to ensure that you don’t accidentally introduce faulty deployments, which can have wide-ranging impacts on your infrastructure, application, and end-user experience, and can potentially lead to costly rollbacks.

In any type of organization and at any scale, logs are essential to a comprehensive monitoring stack. They provide granular, point-in-time insights into the health, security, and performance of your whole environment, making them critical for key workflows such as incident response, security investigations, auditing, and performance analysis. Many organizations generate millions (or even billions) of log events across their tech stack every day.