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Only 10% of Organizations are Doing Full Observability. Can Generative AI Move the Needle?
Generative AI, powered by large language models (LLMs), introduces a transformative solution to the challenges of modern observability.
Jun 19, 2024 · 3 minAll articles by Asaf Yigal
Showing 1–95 Reasons to Move Beyond SRE to Observability
SRE and observability are both often erroneously equated with monitoring. Organizations should shift focus from the former to the latter.
Splunk and the ELK Stack: A Side-by-Side Comparison
This article’s purpose is to compare the “big two” in the log analytics world—Splunk and the ELK Stack. But before we go into details, a short introduction to the competitors is required. Splunk is the “Google for log files” heavyset enterprise tool that was the first log analysis software and has been the market leader […]
SRE vs. DevOps — a False Distinction?
Just a few days before he died at the beginning of the 1990s, a wise man taught us that “the show must go on.” Freddie Mercury’s parting words have long provided the guiding light for many, if not all, ops teams. In their eyes, the production environment should be exposed to minimum risk, even at […]
Should You Go ‘Serverless’? The Pros and Cons
The popularity of the “serverless” term started to grow when Amazon launched AWS Lambda in 2014. Ever since, we’ve seen the term exponentially grow in use and reference, with more vendors entering the market with their own solutions (Azure recently went GA with Functions, for example). What is it all about and how does this […]
How DevOps is Killing QA
If you work in software quality assurance (QA), it’s time to find a new job. The overall software development process has always consisted of the following core activities: Creating a requirements analysis; Producing a specification of the software artifact; Constructing the software; Investigating the quality of the product or service; Finding and fixing defects; then […]
14 Tools That Raise Web and App Performance
In the DevOps Era, teams increasingly are turning to a variety of tools to integrate, accelerate and automate. Speed and efficiency are critical. This is especially amplified in continuous delivery (CD), which enables IT teams to achieve fast and reliable releases. If successful, CD allows for a faster time to market, increased operational effectiveness and […]
6 Key Considerations When Migrating to AWS
Every day, more and more organizations take the plunge and migrate to the Amazon Web Services public cloud. What they leave behind is the cumbersomeness of the traditional data center, but despite the cloud’s benefits in scalability, agility and efficiency, they discover a new set of challenges that need to be overcome. Gartner estimates that […]
A Guide to Public Cloud Security Tools
Why is an arrangement of servers—which are constructed of hard metal, tend to run hot and weigh thousands of pounds—called a “cloud”? It only makes sense from the standpoint of an engineering diagram, in which data travels by an undefined pathway from origin to endpoint. In that respect, the cloud refers to the randomized packet […]