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4 Best Practices for Choosing your DevOps Tools

By Chris Tozzi If you google “DevOps tools,” you’ll see a dizzying litany of software applications, all promising to simplify your life as a DevOps engineer. This can be an

Best Practices for Hybrid Cloud Management

By Eric Bruno One of the unintended side-effects of the public cloud is the enablement of a platform-agnostic cloud architecture. This means that it’s now easier than ever to mix

Jaeger vs Zipkin – OpenTracing Distributed Tracers

NOTE: If you are truly looking to learn about OpenTracing you must be an archeologist. OpenTracing morphed into OpenTelemetry. In the previous three parts of our OpenTracing series, we provided

OpenTracing: Zipkin as Distributed Tracer

NOTE: If you are truly looking to learn about OpenTracing you must be an archeologist. OpenTracing morphed into OpenTelemetry. In part one of the OpenTracing blog series, we provided a

OpenTracing: Jaeger as Distributed Tracer

NOTE: If you are truly looking to learn about OpenTracing you must be an archeologist. OpenTracing morphed into OpenTelemetry. In the previous two parts of OpenTracing series, we provided a good OpenTracing overview, explaining

How OpenTracing Works: Basics and Terminology

NOTE: If you are truly looking to learn about OpenTracing you must be an archeologist. OpenTracing morphed into OpenTelemetry. In this second part of OpenTracing 5 part series, we'll dive

OpenTracing Overview: Distributed Tracing’s Emerging Industry Standard

NOTE: If you are truly looking to learn about OpenTracing you must be an archeologist. OpenTracing morphed into OpenTelemetry. What was traditionally known as just Monitoring has clearly been going