The third IBM Instana OpenTelemetry blog of the year is out! This post also marks our first introduction of Instana’s fleet management for OpenTelemetry Collectors, delivering centralized visibility and control via OpAMP, and it recently reached GA. Check it out! https://lnkd.in/gmvMf7fj IBM Instana

What’s behind Europe’s efforts to ditch US software in favor of sovereign tech Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is far less vocal about his worldviews than Palantir’s Alex Karp. And https://lnkd.in/eNi85w6B

What’s behind Europe’s efforts to ditch US software in favor of sovereign tech Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is far less vocal about his worldviews than Palantir’s Alex Karp. And https://lnkd.in/e8hP-zbP

🔥 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: Anthropic Poaches Microsoft Executive to Lead Infrastructure Anthropic PBC has hired a senior leader from Microsoft Corp. to lead its push to establish the infrastructure needed to support growing adoption of its artificial intelligence services. 🔗 [𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆](https://lnkd.in/g3vU4TNE) 📢 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴

Datadog Experiments is now GA, bringing statistically rigorous experimentation into the observability platform thousands of engineering teams already use to measure real business impact. https://bit.ly/4scnuC6

Dave Plummer…the legend who wrote Windows Task Manager…recently shared why modern software feels so sluggish despite our massive hardware advantages. He argues we’ve traded 'scarcity-driven discipline' for a culture of bloat, abstraction, and misplaced incentives. As engineering leaders, we need to stop accepting “not awful” as the standard (balanced with not allowing perfection to be an enemy). It’s time to treat performance as a core feature again, gate our builds, and remind teams that constraints are the foundation of true excellence. Ironically, AI now actually makes that not only possible, but business-cost achievable. https://lnkd.in/gGmb2hwt

The honest take of how Microsoft fell so far so fast? They bought every microphone and got exactly what they told everyone they deserved.

Manabe and the SRE. On the engineering convergence between Tokyo light shows and Google Borg — and what physical constraints actually produce reliability (essentially a technical review paper driven by a conversation with Opus) https://lnkd.in/e3gWJydY

🔥 Something I'm Learning Today Just spent time exploring how modern distributed systems handle consensus. The complexity is fascinating - we take for granted that our databases "just work," but underneath, there's incredible engineering keeping everything consistent. Key insights: • Raft and Paxos aren't just academic - they power real systems • Trade-offs between consistency and availability are real • Network partitions happen more often than we think What's the most complex system you've worked with? #DistributedSystems #Engineering #Backend #Consensus #TechInsights

If your business is heavily invested in the Microsoft ecosystem and you've got some complexity involved that has you stumped, I can't say enough about Jesse Vaught and his team at Group Aware, extremely expert and professional and with great people (i.e. not too nerdy).