In this exclusive VMblog interview ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 in Salt Lake City, David DeSanto, Chief Product Officer at GitLab, discusses how the company is revolutionizing DevOps with AI integration.

Learn about GitLab's latest announcement of self-hosted models for GitLab Duo, enabling air-gapped and offline environments.

DeSanto shares insights on tool consolidation, cloud-native development, and how GitLab helps organizations increase developer productivity while maintaining security. Discover how GitLab differentiates itself as the most comprehensive AI-powered DevOps platform, trusted by over 50% of Fortune 100 companies.

Key topics:

• GitLab Duo Enterprise launch and self-hosted models
• Cloud-native development and Kubernetes integration
• Security-first approach to DevOps
• Platform engineering challenges and solutions
• AI adoption with proper guardrails 

Visit GitLab at Booth H1 at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 to learn more.

Links:

Website: https://about.gitlab.com

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Are you looking to up your cloud game? If so, you don’t want to miss AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas! This event is the ultimate gathering for techies, developers, and anyone interested in cloud computing. Let’s dive into why you should be there!

Join us for this special VMblog spotlight video ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024, with BellSoft, ControlTheory, Fermyon, GitLab, and Heroku, five innovative companies that are leading the way in Kubernetes and cloud native computing.

These companies are at the forefront of developing new technologies and solutions that are helping organizations to build, deploy, and manage their cloud native applications more effectively and efficiently.

In this exclusive KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 interview, Roman Khavronenko, Co-Founder and Engineering Lead at VictoriaMetrics, discusses how their open-source time series database solution tackles the challenges of large-scale Kubernetes monitoring.

Watch and learn as Khavronenko explores their full suite of monitoring tools, including agents, alerting mechanisms, anomaly detection, and their new cloud offering.

And learn more about:

• VictoriaMetrics' approach to handling billions of unique time series 
• Solutions for Kubernetes monitoring scalability challenges
• Prometheus compatibility and enhanced features
• Future trends in AI-powered monitoring 
• How they're addressing the critical cardinality challenges in modern Kubernetes deployments. 

Visit VictoriaMetrics at Booth R17 at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 to learn more!

Links:

Website: https://victoriametrics.com/

Documentation: https://docs.victoriametrics.com

Join VMblog as we interview Gabriel Manor, VP of Developer Relations at Permit.io, ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 in Salt Lake City.  Learn how Permit.io is revolutionizing fine-grained authorization for cloud-native applications, featuring seamless integration with popular tools like Open Policy Agent (OPA) and OpenFGA.

In this interview, Manor shares insights on:

• The evolution of authorization in cloud-native architectures 
• How Permit.io helps developers implement better permissions 
• Integration with the Cloud Native ecosystem 
• The company's innovative policy editor and UI components 
• Latest developments including their new Terraform provider 

And stick around to the end to see a live demo as we walk through part of the product.

As a startup founded in 2021, Permit.io is transforming how organizations handle authorization, making it not just a security feature but a potential revenue driver. Whether you're modernizing legacy systems or building new cloud-native applications, discover how Permit.io can help solve your authorization challenges.

Learn more at permit.io or connect with their community on Slack.

Links: Website: https://www.permit.io/

Slack: https://permit-io.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-nz6yjgnp-RlP9rtOPwO0n0aH_vLbmBQ#/shared-invite/email

As we approach November, the global supercomputing community is gearing up for SC24, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. This year's event, taking place November 17-22 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, promises to be a landmark gathering for anyone involved in pushing the boundaries of computational capabilities.

VictoriaMetrics is the company behind the open-source time series database project of the same name. VictoriaMetrics recently also released a new open-source logs management solution. Founded in Kyiv, Ukraine, now globally led and headquartered in the US, VictoriaMetrics is the scaleup leader in open source time series and logs monitoring. 

The VictoriaMetrics management team came together following successful careers at major tech companies to solve the complex problems around very large, constantly changing data types they had encountered. 

VictoriaMetrics boasts 750+ million downloads & counting; customers include Roblox, Grammarly, and Wix.

Please visit our website for more information & to get started: https://victoriametrics.com/

See how Grammarly cut observability costs by 10x, increased ingestion flexibility, and boosted performance with VictoriaMetrics. In the Grammarly team’s own words: 

“Ingestion type flexibility (support for Graphite, OpenMetrics, etc.) was definitely a winning feature and important benefit for us. VictoriaMetrics comes with good documentation and is easy to bootstrap. The high level of responsiveness of the VictoriaMetrics developers and support team during our research phase and production have made Grammarly extremely happy customers.”

https://victoriametrics.com/case-studies/grammarly/

A software license change may have a short-term impact on revenue, but the long-term damage to community trust & more, can be consequential & take time to fix. We won't be changing the #Apache2 license for our products. Our main goal is to provide users with good, open source observability products & help them use these efficiently. 

Read our take on open source licenses vs revenue growth rates.

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/open-source-software-licenses-vs-revenue-growth-rates/

Time series databases are essential tools in any software engineer’s toolbelt. Their development has been shaped by user needs and countless open source contributors, leading to the healthy ecosystem of options we see today.

Imagine your app generates 2 million time series from just a few labels—without the right tools, this could cause significant slowdowns!

#VictoriaMetrics helps you deal with high cardinality through raw performance — it supports over 10 million active time series on a single machine.

Read our brief history & walkthrough of rise of open source time series databases.

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/the-rise-of-open-source-time-series-databases/

VictoriaMetrics is the company behind the open-source project of the same name, which also offers an open source logs management solution. Founded in Kyiv, Ukraine, now globally led and headquartered in the US, VictoriaMetrics is the scaleup leader in the category of open-source time series and logs monitoring. The VictoriaMetrics management team came together following successful careers at major tech companies, to solve the hard problems around very large, constantly changing data types which they themselves had encountered. VictoriaMetrics now boasts 750+ million downloads and customers include Roblox, Grammarly and Wix.

For more information, please visit: https://victoriametrics.com 

More Resources:

VictoriaMetrics: https://victoriametrics.com/products/open-source/

VictoriaLogs: https://victoriametrics.com/products/victorialogs/

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced the schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024, happening in Salt Lake City, Utah from November 12 - 15.

In its ninth year, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 is taking place for the first time in the Silicon Slopes. The schedule, which was curated by a program committee of 93 community members and 22 track chairs led by co-chairs - Joseph Sandoval of Adobe, Nikhita Raghunath of VMware, and Kasper Nissen of Lunar - offers insights into the biggest trends and technologies impacting the cloud native ecosystem today. From a monumental 1937 submissions, attendees will choose from 218 sessions, keynotes, lightning talks, and breakout sessions, with 87 CNCF project maintainer-hosted sessions aimed at technologists across industries and skill sets. Attendees will also have access to over 40 CNCF Project Lightning Talks on Tuesday, which is included in the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon only pass.

Dive into the world of enterprise print management with Tricerat at VMware Explore 2024 in Las Vegas!

In this exclusive VMblog interview, discover how Tricerat is revolutionizing IT environments with their innovative print management solutions.