Bruce Gain

New York

DevOps. Security. Observability. Linux. Kubernetes. Sailing. ReveCom Media.

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Articles

Observability Without a Data Lake Might No Longer Work

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Bruce Gain

Data lakes have become a critical component of many organizations’ hopes for business analytics, product execution, and observability. As organizations become aware of the importance of data lakes for observability, a widening chasm is emerging between those who can adequately take advantage of data lakes with the right platforms and those who cannot. In other words, data lakes have emerged as a necessity instead of the next shiny object for observability.
NixOps Lives On: Introducing NixOps 4

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Bruce Gain

Nix has been a work in progress for over a decade. Some say it will never live up to its promise of completely reproducible environments and workloads, along with the work that goes into NixOS as the associated Linux distribution. However, immense progress has been made. The fact that the project has been ongoing for so long attests to both the strong interest in the community and its prevailing certitude that, yes, it can be done in theory.
Apollo: GraphQL Now Connects to REST APIs With Little Fuss

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Bruce Gain

Many, if not most, engineers and operations architects are well acquainted with the unfortunate conundrum of API sprawl, largely driven by BFF as a layer consisting of REST APIs. As the organization scales, the backend-for-frontend (BFF) pattern supporting the REST APIs can become unmanageable and certainly time consuming to separately update with code.
KDE Neon Is the Linux Distribution With the Dynamic Desktop

1 month ago | lxer.com | Jack Wallen |Loraine Lawson |David Eastman |Bruce Gain

There’s no debating that Linux is rife with choice. It doesn’t matter what application we’re talking about, Linux has multiple options for which to choose. On top of that, Linux makes it possible to get a highly customized workflow, so your operating system (and the apps you use) are uniquely you. One only need to examine how many different distribution and desktop environment combinations that are available. Some desktop environments even have flagship distributions used to show off what’s new.
New Relic’s Intelligent Observability Platform Is Ambitious

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Bruce Gain

New Relic has released what could be its most ambitious observability platform to date. Announced during the New Relic Now+ 2025 user’s conference in February, the company describes its New Relic Intelligent Observability Platform as an all-comprehensive observability solution that significantly lowers the threshold of adoption and use by nonoperations teams.
OpenTelemetry Opens the Door for Observability Startups

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Bruce Gain

In the beginning, there was monitoring. Back then, organizations did what they could to monitor and observe data, especially when troubleshooting. Telemetry data consisting of logs, metrics, and, more recently, traces, offered the required data to be scrutinized or collected for monitoring. This is when early telemetry data came into play in DevOps when troubleshooting sought to figure out what went wrong, how it happened, and how to fix applications, networks and other operational issues.
Why Is Multicloud Observability So Expensive?

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Bruce Gain

Organizations are scrambling to find ways to reduce their observability bills. The observability providers offer technologies to save costs, but there’s a chicken-and-egg aspect because they must switch out their existing observability platforms for another, hoping that they will eventually be able to save money. This could perhaps prompt some users to think or see commoditization taking effect for observability.
WanAware: 21 Packets’ Affordable Observability Play

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Bruce Gain

WanAware promises less-expensive integration from what it says can be an infinite number of telemetry data sources into a high-powered observability platform that large Fortune 100 organizations already rely on. As one of the more recently created observability startups, WanAware is uniquely positioned, having been previously developed internally to support 21Packets’ infrastructure and customers.
Observability: Do You Need a Data Lake?

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Bruce Gain

Data lakes have emerged as an essential component for observability. This is because they can ideally gather and integrate data in various forms and structures that, if handled properly, can be used to gain analytical insights, improve business operations and enhance the capabilities that applied observability offers. What’s a data lake?
Observability Can Get Expensive. Here's How to Trim Costs

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Bruce Gain

Telemetry data feeds are beneficial for developers and operations teams. However, observability feeds come at a cost. Some large customers spend tens of millions of dollars annually on an observability solution. Depending on the observability provider, these costs may include security coverage. CFOs and other financial decision-makers are scrutinizing this pay-as-you-go model increasingly, as they are under pressure to reduce spending.