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Observability Across Asia-Pacific: What's Holding Teams Back? | 2025 Observability Survey Analysis

What’s holding back observability maturity in Asia-Pacific? Grafana Labs' cofounder Anthony Woods shares key takeaways from the largest global observability survey. Learn how SaaS, budget concerns, and org structure are shaping Asia-Pacific (APAC)'s future. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.

The Road to Loki 4.0 (Loki Community Call June 2025)

In this Loki Community Call, we welcome back Ed Welch, Principal Engineer on the Loki team. We will be discussing with Ed what is next for Loki as we push forward to Loki 4.0. If you are interested, learn more about potential architecture changes, storage formats, and an open discussion on where Ed and the Loki team would like to see the future of Loki, then make sure you join us live and have your questions answered!

Kubernetes Costs: More Than Meets The Eye

As organizations expand their Kubernetes deployments and scale production workloads, effective cost management becomes an essential priority. The rapid innovation demanded from development teams often intersects with a shortage of advanced Kubernetes expertise, leading to resource inefficiencies and unnecessary expenses. This challenge is further amplified by the growing prevalence of AI/ML workloads and the intricate demands of GPU utilization.

#046 - Simulating, Scheduling, and Saving: Optimizing Kubernetes with David Morrison (Applied Res...

In this episode, Itiel has an insightful conversation with Dr. David Morrison, a research scientist and founder specializing in Kubernetes scheduling and autoscaling. David shares his journey from operations research to leading distributed systems efforts at tech giants like Yelp and Airbnb. Learn about the transition from Apache Mesos to Kubernetes at Yelp, including the role of their open-source API layer, Pasta.

How to Create a Free Status Page in Under 5 Minutes

Your website goes down at 2 AM. Your customers wake up to broken services, flooded support inboxes, and zero communication from your team. By the time you're awake and fixing things, trust is already damaged. A status page prevents this nightmare scenario. But here's the thing — most teams keep putting it off because they think it's complicated, expensive, or time-consuming. It's not. You can create a professional status page in under 5 minutes, completely free. I'll show you exactly how.

32 Best FinOps Tools For 2025: Features And Comparison

In recent years, cloud financial management has evolved beyond what many cloud stakeholders anticipated. The overwhelm has led too many companies to struggle to accurately monitor, allocate, and optimize their cloud costs. This issue cost companies about 30% of their cloud budgets in 2022 alone, according to Gartner. With FinOps, you can prevent this bleeding without sacrificing innovation. Yet, taking a manual approach to FinOps can be inefficient and error-prone.

Vintage Control: Inside the New Era of Wine Store Efficiency

Wine inventory used to be a constant headache-thousands of SKUs, shifting vintages, scattered records. Traditional retail tools couldn't handle the specific requirements. Today's advanced wine POS systems change that. Their tools accurately manage inventory, automatically reorder supplies, and keep all product information in one place. From RFID tracking to mobile access, wine retailers now have full visibility into what's in stock and what's missing. Customers get a better experience thanks to loyalty programs, special offers just for them, and our CRM system. It's all about improving the experience.

5 Ways to Use AI to Map Your Startup's Critical Path

Startups move fast. Every decision counts. Mapping your critical path, which includes the sequence of tasks that determines your project's timeline, keeps you on track. Interestingly, AI makes this process sharper, faster, and more precise. It cuts through complexity, spots risks, and aligns your team. This guest post breaks down a few practical ways to use AI for mapping your startup's critical path.