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Kubernetes gives developers autonomy and allows them to work faster, and as a result, standardization can fall by the wayside. Learn how Cortex can help you introduce consistency into your k8s practice, and make sure to visit us at KubeCon this month!

As companies navigate geopolitical challenges, macroeconomic headwinds, and the post-pandemic comedown, business leaders face intense pressure to drive software transformation, reduce costs, and compete faster in the cloud-transition era of “lift and shift.” Amid layoffs and a slowed pace of hiring, the demand for better tools, real-time insights, seamless experiences, and contextual analysis has skyrocketed.

In today's digital age, IT departments play a crucial role in maintaining the overall functionality and security of an organization. One essential tool for managing service outages and downtime is the incident response playbook. This comprehensive guide provides IT departments with the necessary processes and strategies to resolve incidents in a timely and efficient manner.

Aiven Terraform Provider 4.x is an important step on our move to the new Terraform Plugin Framework, providing better type checking. Read on for details.

Customers now have access to the complete Aiven portfolio via self-service from AWS Marketplace.

Content delivery networks are an important part of the internet, as they ensure a short path between content and the consumers. The idea of placing CDN caches inside ISPs networks was created early in the days of CDNs. The number of CDNs with this offering is growing and ISPs all over the world take advantage of the idea. This post explains how this works and what to look out for to do it right.

Everything you need to know about creating a log management program Businesses create, collect and have access to more data than ever before. Some of this log data, the record of events that occur in your digital spaces, can help DevOps and security teams assess the performance and reliability of their systems, evaluate weaknesses and troubleshoot any issues that may be occurring.

As a company born in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, we understand that operating at cloud scale requires balancing security, compliance, and operational safety with your commitment to innovation, speed, and agility. From cost optimization at scale to operational resiliency to application modernization, we know you’re facing various challenges and need reliable solutions.

While many of the popular tools for observability in software are open source, one thing they lack is open design. Most of these solutions, from Nagios to Prometheus, started as a product with an opinionated design, which happened to work well for many people. These became the de facto standards. That position of de facto standard is what every open-source project and every commercial product tries to be.

Logs record digital actions within your IT system to let you know where errors or unauthorized access attempts originated. However, having only a partial log management plan — or lacking one entirely — can leave you with a mess of unstructured data that doesn’t provide the insights you need. Fortunately, following log management best practices can make tracking your digital actions or modifying your current log management plan a straightforward process.