At QCon London 2026, Colin Douch discussed building and operating self-hosted monitoring stacks, surveyed the current tooling landscape, and explained how to build a coherent observability setup rather than treating logs, metrics, and traces as separate pillars. Douch, site reliability engineer at DuckDuckGo, opened the session by challenging the audience: Do you ever feel … Read more
Appdome has introduced DefenceOS, a new operating layer embedded in Appdome-protected iOS and Android apps that manages how multiple in-app protection components run alongside the host application. It is positioned as an execution environment for mobile security, anti-fraud, anti-bot and API protection functions. DefenceOS is designed to reduce clashes between protections that can slow apps, … Read more
Railway’s engineering team published a comprehensive guide to observability, explaining how developers and SRE teams can use logs, metrics, traces, and alerts together to understand and diagnose production system failures. The post, aimed at users of modern distributed systems, lays out practical definitions, strengths, and limitations of each telemetric signal, and emphasizes how combining them … Read more
Key Takeaways Each problem in the AI space has unique challenges. Once you’ve been serving production traffic, you’ll find edge cases and scenarios you want to measure. Consider models as systems: LLMs are part of broader systems. Their performance and reliability require careful observability, guardrails, and alignment with user and business objectives. … Read more
Version 3.0 of the popular open-source monitoring system Prometheus has been released, marking the tool’s first major update in seven years. A variety of new features have been added, with improvements aimed at enhancing the user experience and streamlining workflows. The completely revamped user interface (UI) is one of the most noticeable changes in Prometheus … Read more