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How to Optimize Your Cloud Spend Using Observability

The rise of public cloud services has enabled businesses to innovate faster, scale effortlessly, and adopt more advanced technologies easier than ever before. However, there’s a dark side to using public cloud services: complexity and cost. Public cloud services can scale to handle almost any workload, but in doing so, they can quickly generate unpredictable costs for your business.

Distributed Tracing for Kafka Clients with OpenTelemetry and Splunk APM

This blog series is focused on observability into Kafka based applications. In the previous blogs, we discussed the key performance metrics to monitor different Kafka components in "Monitoring Kafka Performance with Splunk" and how to collect performance metrics using OpenTelemetry in "Collecting Kafka Performance Metrics with OpenTelemetry." In this blog, we'll cover how to enable distributed tracing for Kafka clients with OpenTelemetry and Splunk APM.

Interview With CTO & Co-founder Alexander De Ridder

For the newest instalment in our series of interviews asking leading technology specialists about their achievements in their field, we’ve welcomed the CTO & co-founder of INK, Alexander De Ridder to share his journey to launching the first AI-based web content optimization editor. Alexander is the mastermind behind the award-winning technology that's helped deliver over a million more organic visitors per month for Fortune 100 companies and freelance content creators alike.

Intercept Security Scans with Vulnerability Webhooks

Security scanning provides an opportunity to target, track, and trace vulnerabilities introduced to your packages as soon as Cloudsmith has received a complete package upload. However what happens when you want to intercept the results of a scan immediately. An early warning can make a difference when distributing vulnerable packages to hundreds, thousands, or even millions of developers, devices, or systems globally.

Why Path-to-Production Analysis Is a Must for Software Development Teams

One of the key metrics IT leaders care about is the total time it takes for a release to go from development to being live in production. The metric used to measure that duration is called the “release lead time.” It can range from days to months, depending on factors such as team agility, enterprise constraints, and interdependencies.

How to Build a Strong Open Source Community: Best Practices and Lessons Learned

When the VMware Tanzu Community Engagement team assembled three years ago, we did so with the belief that strong, sustainable community engagement is a crucial component of successful open source projects. With a mission of helping to build up and improve communities, we set out to support several VMware-originated open source projects.

Digital Twins and IoT: Unlock Deeper Process Intelligence

A digital twin is a virtual or digital replica of a physical entity. In the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) realm, a digital twin is the dynamic virtual copy of a physical framework, a vehicle, a machine, or any device. Most often, a digital twin is developed to carry out simulations before the actual device is manufactured. Today, digital twin is taking the IoT industry by storm and the market is expected to hit $16 billion by 2023.

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6 Ways to Support a Remote DevOps Team

Remote working is here to stay, so it's vital that businesses understand how to get the best out of their staff. For some roles, working remotely is easier than others - DevOps employees, for example, can face challenges if they're not fully supported within the organisation. In a distributed workforce, there's a higher risk of security issues and application problems, so it's crucial that organisations support them to keep the organisation running smoothly. Here are 6 ways to do just that.