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Practicing observability isn’t just about tools. It also means improving how you work together and how you share lessons across the team. Learning from each other helps everyone on your team become better engineers that can create amazing experiences with code, or that make code work at incredible scale (or both!). Writing software and operating it in production is—and must be—a team sport.

You can now benefit from even more features and functionality in Elastic Cloud. In case you missed it, we’ve added powerful tools to simplify and automate operations. We’ve added support for more regions. And we’ve even added new ways to pay for, and understand your bill for Elastic Cloud. With a cup of tea and five minutes, we’ll recap them for you.

We are pleased to announce the general availability of version 7.8 of the Elastic Stack. Like most Elastic releases, 7.8 brings a broad set of new capabilities to Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats, as well as the solutions built on the Elastic Stack: Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security.

Neil is Principal Product Manager for Event Management and Automation at OpsRamp. He is a seasoned IT Operations Management veteran with nearly 30 years experience at large enterprises. He discusses the evolution of this critical infrastructure management software market.

An ever-increasing number of organizations are working in the cloud. It depends on their business model what cloud delivery model they use. The three most common deployment models for cloud services are software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Here, we explain the differences between these cloud delivery models and what you need to consider when choosing the right model for your organization.

When thinking about serverless applications, one thing that comes to mind immediately is efficiency. Running code that gets the job done as swiftly and efficiently as possible means you spend less money, which means good coding practices suddenly directly impact your bottom line. How does logging play into this, though? Every logging action your application takes is within the scope of that same performance evaluation.

Uber, Coca Cola European Partners, State of North Carolina, BankUnited, and AmeriGas Using ServiceNow Safe Workplace Apps to Make Returning to Work, Work for Everyone In only four weeks since the initial release of ServiceNow’s Safe Workplace apps, close to 400 customers worldwide have implemented over 1,600 app installations to manage the safe return of their employees.

When the stakes are high, every decision is only as good as the information behind it. With the right information, enterprises and vital sectors can confidently make informed decisions. Data becomes a foundation for action — and a source of differentiation. But how do you store the relentless influx of data — especially since data storage costs, amplified by the risk of data loss, are among the top hurdles facing organizations today?

I recently spoke on a panel discussion with the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) on the use of infrastructure as a competitive advantage. The event offered fresh thinking on what it takes to manage high-frequency, low-latency trading environments - so I wanted to share some best practices for organization, monitoring, and how to make insights operational.

During World War II, a mathematician named Abraham Wald worked on a problem – identifying where to add armor to planes based on the aircraft that returned from missions and their bullet puncture patterns. The obvious and accepted thought was that the bullets represented the problem areas for the planes. Wald pointed out that the problem areas weren’t actually these areas, because these planes survived.