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CloudWatch vs OpenTelemetry: Choosing What Fits Your Stack

May 9, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9

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.

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Solr Key Metrics: The Essential Guide for DevOps & SREs

May 9, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9

When Solr performance degrades, everyone notices - except maybe your monitoring system. The right metrics can alert you to problems before your users start complaining. This guide walks through the essential Solr metrics that matter for production deployments.

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

May 9, 2025 By Redgate Software In Redgate

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.

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How To Use Azure Budget Alerts To Avoid Surprise Bills

May 9, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero

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.

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

May 9, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters

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.

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

May 8, 2025 By Vipul Gupta In MetricFire

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.

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How to test Istio and other service meshes

May 8, 2025 By Gremlin In Gremlin

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.

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What Is a Network Assessment, and What Is a Network Audit?

May 8, 2025 By Staff Contributor In SolarWinds

These days, networks are larger and more complex than ever. It’s all too easy to fall short when managing performance, security, and compliance. That’s where network assessments and network audits can help. Both network assessments and network audits can give you a more comprehensive understanding of your network and its current strengths, weaknesses, and threats. As a result, you can quickly identify and resolve issues.

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Empowering Engineers To Act On Cloud Costs - Right From Where They Work

May 8, 2025 By Kevin Lamb In CloudZero

At CloudZero, our mission has always been clear: power efficient innovation in the cloud by connecting engineering decisions with business outcomes. But here’s the truth — we’re not just solving for visibility. We’re solving for action. In order to turn theoretical savings into actual waste elimination and tangible outcomes, you have to enable engineers to act on cost insights within the tools and workflows they already use. CloudZero’s new Jira integration does just that.

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RITA Demo

May 8, 2025 By Resolve In Resolve

Watch a demo of RITA, the first AI Agent powered by Resolve Actions. RITA brings smart, real-time assistance to IT ticket handling, where delays often occur. From auto-populating ticket fields and translating user inputs to generating new knowledge articles, RITA enhances the efficiency and accuracy of every support interaction.+ Increases first call resolution rates+ Scales your service desk capacity while retaining quality.

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