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In which we discuss upgrading our quirky billing system.

Every journey in distributed tracing starts with instrumenting an application to emit or extract trace data from each service as they execute. There are many ways to instrument, including the use of SDKs and pre-configured frameworks, and many protocols for transmitting the trace data to the analysis tool.

Open source and community have always been in the DNA of Netdata, with the Agent starting as a very popular open-source project. Since then, a lot has changed, with Netdata maturing into a company, and the Netdata Agent finding its place as an open-source project in a wider offering that redesigns the monitoring experience from the ground up.

Operational efficiency is crucial to the success of your company. Improving efficiency is a combined effort of measuring and refining processes, employees, technology, and financials. The goal is the continual improvement of these aspects to maintain and increase your business’s operational efficiency. Do you want to learn more about enhancing your operational efficiency? Check out StartingPoint, the platform for customer success and service management!

One of the biggest challenges organizations face in the current age of digital transformation is the issue of complexity. As the technology landscape continues to expand, organizations are increasingly moving away from centralized management to a more decentralized model. For many enterprises, monitoring, managing, and securing traditional and cloud-based infrastructures is becoming more difficult.

Although our Head Geek Leon Adato may have attempted to predict 2020 last year, no one could’ve prepared us for what was to come. Today as we work from various remote spaces including our living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, or any room where we can find a good Wi-Fi signal, it’s hard to think of what our situation will look like in 2021.

My team was not happy with me. I had just convened a meeting of my direct reports — and the managers that reported to them — to deliver the news personally. “No more new tools,” I told them. “We have everything we need to do our job. Our environment just doesn’t change that fast. So stop bringing me requests for new tools. The answer is no.” It was unquestionably the right call at the time, but today, it would be laughable.

We’re delighted to announce that, after a rigorous evaluation by the AWS Service Ready Program, JFrog Artifactory and Xray have been validated as following best practices for AWS Outposts. What additional engineering did we do to get our core DevOps solutions to perform on AWS Outposts? None at all. We’re proud of meeting AWS’s strict standards, but it was no surprise.

Every year, I look forward to the release of the annual State of DevOps report (that’s the kind of exciting life I lead!). The evolution and adoption of DevOps in the past decade has been incredible — and this report always helps show what’s the next big thing that high-performing teams are adopting. The 2020 State of DevOps report was just released a couple weeks ago and as usual, it was filled with all kinds of insights.

If you run a sizable enterprise, your network is probably sprawling. You also probably have a network management or IT security team on the payroll to handle monitoring. Their job is to check the network for potential security intrusions, make sure resources aren’t overloaded in one area, and otherwise ensure that things run smoothly.