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Our product and engineering teams at Aiven have been busy! Find out what was released in the first quarter of 2023.

Well howdy there partner, Phillip here with a rootin’ tootin’ OTel update for ya, right on time for Kubecon EU!

If you're a developer looking for an easier way to manage your Rails, JAMstack, or containerized applications, you'll be pleased to know that our team has worked hard to launch a new dashboard that simplifies the process. The new dashboard will be released to general availability next week. Here is a quick preview, let us know your thoughts.

In the modern workplace, more and more organizations are relying on tools like Microsoft Teams to stay connected and productive. However, with the rising usage of these tools comes the potential for technical difficulties that can impact call quality and overall performance. This can be frustrating for teams trying to get work done, but there are ways to stay on top of these challenges.

These days, it seems like everyone is talking about digital transformation. There’s no doubt that new technology can greatly benefit businesses, but is it worth your time and resources? In 2021, organizations around the world spent 1.5 trillion on digital transformation. To decide if digital transformation is the right solution for your organization, start by assessing the benefits of digital transformation.

With 85 of their customers listed among the Fortune 100 companies, Splunk is undoubtedly one the leading machine data platforms on the market. In addition to its core capability of consuming unstructured data, Splunk is one of the top SIEMs on the market. Splunk, however, costs a fortune to operate – and those costs will only increase as data volumes grow over the years. Due to these growing pains, technologies have emerged to control the increasing costs of using Splunk.

When it comes to handling and deriving insights from massive volumes of data, Splunk is a force to be reckoned with. Its ability to index, search, and analyze machine-generated data has made it an essential tool for organizations seeking actionable intelligence. However, as the volume and complexity of data continue to grow, optimizing the Splunk experience becomes increasingly important. This is where the power of telemetry pipelines, like Mezmo, comes into play.

In today’s era of ubiquitous SaaS, software license management has become crucial for organizations that heavily rely on technology. Just to give a quick rundown, it entails closely monitoring and tracking software licenses to ensure that they possess the necessary licenses to meet current and future requirements. It is currently a bigger need than ever before, considering that the need for going fully remote has already proven to be a quick and devastating reality in recent years.

Having slow internet speed can cause huge frustration among the users in an organization. We know how effective use of bandwidth can influence productivity in your business. Bandwidth is the volume of information that can be sent over an internet connection in a measured amount of time calculated in megabytes per second. For instance, let’s assume your organization’s network bandwidth is a canal and your data is the ships sailing through it.

Product-led growth (PLG) is on the rise, a discipline that relies on the product itself to drive user acquisition, expansion, conversion and retention. Today, 60% of Cloud 100 companies embrace a PLG strategy, because it’s an efficient method of growth with low customer acquisition costs. Plus, cloud-native companies have the unique opportunity to collect more data that shows exactly how customers are using their products, and where potential friction occurs.