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Today, we’re announcing that Dynatrace has signed an agreement to acquire Bindplane. The transaction is expected to close later this month, subject to customary closing conditions. This is an exciting step forward for our team. We’ll keep building, shipping, and supporting our customers and partners the same way we always have.

Over the past few months, we’ve been making the Kentik platform easier to use and more actionable, with AI increasingly at the center of how teams interact with it. AI Advisor sits near the middle of a lot of that progress, but this is not only an AI story.

Apache Kafka partition count isn't just a number—it defines parallelism, ordering, and operational complexity. Learn the formula to balance throughput requirements with maintenance costs, avoid common anti-patterns, and find your 'Goldilocks' number for production-ready performance.

In 2026, I think it’s safe to say that most mobile devices in enterprise organizations aren’t purchased just for their ability to make calls. And for millions of employees, especially frontline workers, their primary device isn’t even a laptop anymore - it’s a smartphone or tablet. Yet, mobile device insights have largely remained a blind spot for IT.

TL;DR: Customer Zero proves a unified observability model—ingest → detect → investigate → automate response—on a single platform for faster, end-to-end operations.

When users complain that an app or website is slow, the first question is always the same: Is it the network or the application? HTTP monitoring gives you the answer. Network metrics like latency and packet loss tell you what's happening on the wire. But they don't tell you whether users are actually feeling the impact. HTTP monitoring closes that gap.

Over the past 11 years, we have focused on one problem: ensuring complex conversion journeys work reliably in the real world. Across ecommerce platforms, travel services and large consumer websites, these journeys are where revenue is generated and where reliability matters most. In 2026, our focus sharpens further. The theme for the year is simple: Higher signal trust. Deeper intelligence. Stronger operational resilience.

PHP has evolved over the years and has become a lot more reliable, faster and refined. And with the release of PHP 8, which contained many features (named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expressions, the null safe operator (?->) etc) and optimizations (JIT compiler), PHP has become more faster and cleaner. There are many more improvements and interesting features in the later versions of PHP 8. The 4 features I now rely on and wish PHP had introduced much earlier.

Most operational waste comes from fragmented workflows rather than individual performance constraints. An incident begins long before any fix is applied. Alerts trigger, tickets open, and engineers start reconstructing context across systems that were never designed to operate as one. Logs, metrics, past incidents, and runbooks sit in separate tools, each requiring manual lookup, interpretation, and validation before any decision can be made.