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Are you struggling to choose between Datadog and Sentry for your application monitoring needs? Datadog and Sentry are widely recognized for their roles in monitoring applications. Although they share some common features, they serve distinct purposes. Datadog excels in overseeing application performance and providing comprehensive system observability, while Sentry specializes in pinpointing and reporting application errors.

Are you considering the switch from network engineer to cloud engineer? This post won’t teach you everything needed to become a cloud expert, but hopefully, it will create a level of comfort and familiarity such that you can start your journey to the cloud from here.

Session Replay for iOS, Android, and React Native is now in open beta. If you already know what Session Replay is, amazing – click the link and update your SDK to start getting video-like reproductions of where your users are experiencing rage-inducing issues. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, even better. Let me tell you a story.

Imagine a world where you never had to worry about running out of cloud storage again. Although most cloud storage providers offer generous storage capacities of 10TB or more, this may not be enough for large businesses to store their data efficiently. Although it sounds too good to be true, there are a few cloud storage services providing unlimited cloud storage, backups, and other features for you or your business.

It is summer in the northern hemisphere and Nexthink has turned up the heat on all things Application Experience. This summer we have released a series of significant enhancements to Application Experience, making it the go-to choice of every IT team that wants to proactively manage and optimize their employees' experience using any application.

In modern IT environments, logging has become an integral part of application development and operations. Logs, metrics, and traces allow organizations to alert on events, monitor performance, and troubleshoot issues effectively. However, as applications scale and generate an increasing volume of logs year over year, managing them efficiently becomes a daunting task for engineering teams and budget makers.

In 2024, the overall employee experience hinges, in large part, on the quality of their digital interactions. Digital Employee eXperience (DEX) encompasses all digital touchpoints between employees and their work environment and aims to enhance satisfaction, engagement, and productivity across any digital touchpoint.

Our On-call product has been in the wild for a few months now, and in this post I want to talk about building a time-sensitive system and what we did to handle some of the challenges. I’ll cover what our scheduler is responsible for, the basics of working with time, and talk a bit about how we tested our system.

In the fast-paced world of technology, change is constant — and nowhere is that more evident today than in the flood of new features and advancements involving large language models (LLMs). They power various applications, from chat bots to advanced copilots. And as these LLMs and applications become more sophisticated, it will be vital that they work well and reliably. This is where observability, with the help of OpenTelemetry (using OpenLIT), plays an essential role.

A constant challenge in business is aligning stakeholders, customers, and employees behind a single mission. Carefully crafted plans often fail spectacularly as a result of complexity. Some of these efforts fail slowly; some even before execution begins. Especially when collaboration is important, simplicity can make challenging work innately more understandable, measurable, and engaging.