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Longhorn: Rancher's Journey from Zero to GA

When Frodo was commissioned on a seemingly straightforward journey to retrieve the One Ring, I doubt he realized the adventure and commitment he was embarking on. Rancher Labs started on a similarly daring journey almost four years ago. It didn’t take a wizard showing up uninvited at dinner to convince us of this. From the beginning of Rancher Labs, our founding team had a deep conviction about the importance of storage in the future of cloud-first computing.

Longhorn Simplifies Distributed Block Storage in Kubernetes

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Longhorn, an enterprise-grade, cloud-native container storage solution. Longhorn directly answers the need for an enterprise-grade, vendor-neutral persistent storage solution that supports the easy development of stateful applications within Kubernetes. We’ve been working on Longhorn for almost as long as we’ve been around as a company.

Using Log Patterns to Create Log Exclusion Filters | Datadog Tips & Tricks

In part 2 of this 2 part series, you’ll learn how to use Log Patterns to quickly create log exclusion filters and reduce the number of low-value logs you are indexing. Datadog’s Logging with Limits™ feature allows you to selectively determine which logs to index after ingesting all of your logs. Meanwhile, the Log Patterns feature can quickly isolate groups of low-value logs.

How to Generate Metrics from Logs | Datadog Tips & Tricks

In this video, you’ll learn how to generate metrics using log events attributes to filter your logs more effectively and begin monitoring, graphing and alerting on the new metric immediately. Generating metrics from logs is a powerful tool for monitoring attributes which are parsed from your logs.

Though the crisis: AXA IM

Our customer base was impacted globally by COVID-19, and we were honored to be able to support them whenever and however we could. Now, in this new Through the Crisis series, they’ll be sharing some of their stories from the IT frontline. The first contribution comes from Christophe Verducci, Head of Proximity Services at leading financial services provider AXA IM.

Integrate 2020 Remote - Day 2

With Day 1 of the event rolled up, the platform was all set for the next day of the event. Day 2 of Integrate 2020 has been one roller-coaster experience for the attendees with some amazing sessions and certainly, loads of updates from the Microsoft Product Team and MVPs. So, for those who missed it out, make use of this blog.