A Simplified Guide to OpenTelemetry
12/01/22 Digital services are increasingly built as a collection of components working in concert to deliver significant business functions. Understanding how these components of a…
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Can Shift Left Go Too Far? Why Testing in DevOps May Never Be the Same
11/11/22 Testing is commonly understood to be an essential and fundamental part of software development, but when and how to test is open to a wider variety of opinions. DevOps pra…
From Smokestack to Full-Stack: Observability and the Digitization of Manufacturing
11/10/22 The pandemic hit manufacturing hard, with the workforce, supply chains, and investment all taking heavy blows. The bounce-back has also been punishing on the sector, with …
8 Change Management Best Practices You’re Probably Not Following
11/08/22 Change management methodologies are often seen as complex and clunky, which can lead to these initiatives having a high failure rate in many organizations—but why does ch…
How Businesses Are Benefiting from Hybrid Cloud Infrastructures
10/24/22 Side by side with the popularity of hyperscale public cloud providers such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, many organizations maintain on-premises data centers. Organizations …
Why Understanding and Reducing Technical Debt Matters
10/10/22 Technical debt is a term that comes up frequently in IT organizations—whether to characterize software development, tech stack, or infrastructure. For instance, does your …
The Challenges of Multi-Cloud Management and How Observability Helps Solve Them
10/06/22 When I started my career in information technology, I worked for a large insurance company in Omaha, Nebraska. At the time, they exclusively used Lotus Notes, an IBM produ…
Why You Need to Automate DevOps
09/28/22 When I began my career in IT more than two decades ago, most organizations had multiple silos of application development teams. Each team would be responsible for a single…
What is AIOps? The Importance of Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations
09/26/22 Modern IT environments are so complex, dynamic, and expansive that humans alone cannot effectively manage and maintain them. As a developer and operator, I have had to dea…
How Observability and AIOps Are Transforming the World
09/01/22 Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and associated technologies—like machine learning (ML) and natural lan…
Three Ways to Prepare Your Agency for a Modernized Digital Verification System
08/31/22 Last year, the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation for states to develop highly secure, interoperable systems enabling digital identity verification. Acco…
Four Ways State and Local Governments Can Effectively Use Pandemic Relief Funds
08/24/22 Last March, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act was passed for pandemic relief, with $350 billion of the money dedicated to state and local agencies as a part of th…