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How Standards Get Adopted: OTel and Platform Engineering

Dan Gomez Blanco — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

How Standards Get Adopted: OTel and Platform Engineering

Why do engineering leads and decision makers in the tech industry keep choosing OpenTelemetry? A naive answer normally goes something like…

Sweaters, Sunscreens, and Shared Purpose: What Summer Looked Like Across New Relic

Essence Walden — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Sweaters, Sunscreens, and Shared Purpose: What Summer Looked Like Across New Relic

Proactive Monitoring Tools: Stop Reacting to Incidents After They Happen

John Blust — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Proactive Monitoring Tools: Stop Reacting to Incidents After They Happen

By the time a static threshold trips and pages someone, the users hitting that slow endpoint have already noticed. That's the core problem with reactive monitoring: it tells your team something broke, but only after it's already affecting people.

Multi-Cloud Management Tools: A Practical Guide for Engineering Teams

John Blust — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Multi-Cloud Management Tools: A Practical Guide for Engineering Teams

Most engineering teams didn't set out with a deliberate multi-cloud strategy. It happened one acquisition, one team preference, or one vendor negotiation at a time.

Enterprise APM: How to Choose Application Performance Monitoring at Scale

John Blust — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Enterprise APM: How to Choose Application Performance Monitoring at Scale

Most APM tools work fine until an organization crosses a certain size. Then the cracks show. A tool that handled twenty services starts sampling away the traces you need. Alerts multiply faster than anyone can triage them.

APM Dashboard: What It Shows, How to Use It, and What to Look For

John Blust — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

APM Dashboard: What It Shows, How to Use It, and What to Look For

Most engineering teams already collect more application telemetry than they know what to do with. Metrics, traces, and logs pile up by the minute. The problem isn't the volume of data.

New Relic's Japan Region Is Now Generally Available

Stela Udovicic — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

New Relic's Japan Region Is Now Generally Available

Earlier this year, we announced that a New Relic region was coming to Japan. Today it's open. As of the morning (JST), the Japan region is generally available, and customers can onboard now. This data center is hosted in the AWS Tokyo region.

Choosing the Right GCP Cost Optimization Tools for Your Environment

John Blust — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Choosing the Right GCP Cost Optimization Tools for Your Environment

Most engineering teams don't have a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) cost visibility problem. They have a billing dashboard that shows spend went up, and a separate observability stack that shows what the system was doing—and no connection between the two.

JavaScript Monitoring Tools: A Developer's Guide to Choosing the Right One

John Blust — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

JavaScript Monitoring Tools: A Developer's Guide to Choosing the Right One

JavaScript runs on nearly every website you'll ever build or maintain. It powers 98.9% of all sites on the internet, which means JavaScript errors and performance problems are the most common source of frontend issues your team will deal with.