The previous post introduced OpenTelemetry and the OpenTelemetry collector (aka otel-collector) which is acting as gateway to the backends persisting emitted log, metrics, and trace data.
With this post we have a more detailed look at the collector’s configuration and how it connects to the various databases
As applications and architectures become increasingly complex, monitoring application health is more critical than ever. Developers, support teams, and site reliability engineers need real-time insights into performance metrics, logs, and execution traces to ensure smooth operations.
Traditionally, achieving this required integrating multiple frameworks and tools for data collection, analysis, and visualization—often leading to fragmented solutions.
Platform engineers and build pipeline engineers constantly are faced with the challenge of building container images for providing images to be used as application base or for running pipeline tasks. Probably such images have to be provided as multiple variants for multiple versions of software packages to be included.
The Arm CPU architecture is getting more and more popular even on desktop developer devices.
A comparative analysis of Arm, AMD, and Intel costs in the Amazon cloud has shown that Graviton2 processors can be significantly more cost-efficient than other platforms. The study compared the 16xlarge instances based on the m6g (Graviton2, Arm), m5a (EPYC1, AMD), and m5n (Xeon Cascade Lake, Intel) for the 64-vCPU count. Not only are the Arm-based instances cheaper than AMD and Intel, they can achieve 40% better performance per dollar when translating the time to completion of SPEC tests to hours and multiplying the result by hourly cost.
Java 22 has been released in March 2024.
The following content is summarizing the most important changes to the Java API, the Java language, and the JVM introduced with Java 22.
For a more complete overview follow the links in the following sections referring to the official Oracle release documents.
Java 21 has been released in September 2023.
The following content is summarizing the most important changes to the Java API, the Java language, and the JVM introduced with Java 21.
For a more complete overview follow the links in the following sections referring to the official Oracle release documents.
Java 20 has been released in March 2023.
The following content is summarizing the most important changes to the Java API, the Java language, and the JVM introduced with Java 20.
For a more complete overview follow the links in the following sections referring to the official Oracle release documents.
