Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

At the recent KubeCon EU, we learned the significant news of the FluentBit v2.0 major release with numerous new features. What’s new and what’s to come for this key log aggregation tool? On the latest OpenObservability Talks, I hosted Eduardo Silva, one of the maintainers of Fluentd, a creator of Fluent Bit and co-founder of Calyptia.

Are business outcomes, with the potential to make or break an organization’s future, becoming more important than they’ve ever been before? It sure seems that way. Embarking on the journey of business growth despite a treacherous path of challenges, all departments are biting at the bit for stability, solid strategies, and a reliable plan for what’s ahead.

Vertex AI is Google’s platform offering AI and machine learning computing as a service—enabling users to train and deploy machine learning (ML) models and AI applications in the cloud. In June 2023, Google added generative AI support to Vertex AI, so users can test, tune, and deploy Google’s large language models (LLMs) for use in their applications.

Operational efficiency is as critical within the IT and engineering teams as any other part of the business. Automating repetitive tasks and reducing escalations within and to these teams is of immense value. While automation saves time and boosts productivity, the complexity of developing automation can be a limiting factor and bottleneck. Generative AI is a paradigm shift here, in that it brings consumer-style simplicity to assisting in the development of enterprise-grade automation.