Observability — the ability to measure and understand the internal state of a system by analyzing the data it produces — has come a long way in the past 15 years. Companies such as Dynatrace have led the charge, helping businesses transform how they monitor and manage their systems. At the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 conference, Alois Mayr, senior principal product manager at Dynatrace, shared his insights on the evolution of observability and how artificial intelligence (AI) is now reshaping it. The Evolution of Observability When Mayr first joined Dynatrace nearly two decades ago, observability was a nascent concept. Back…
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This release is a major update that includes improvements in PHPStan annotations, Xdebug, and WordPress support, an AI Free tier and new subscription system for JetBrains AI, and more. Download PhpStorm 2025.1 PHP Code completion for @phpstan-type and @phpstan-import-type This release improves PhpStorm’s PHPStan annotation support, introducing code completion for array shape aliases in @phpstan-type and @phpstan-import-type. Using the local type aliases defined in PHPDoc’s @phpstan-type annotation (or referenced in the @phpstan-import-type annotation), the IDE autocompletes array keys in class bodies. Support for nested variables in .env files Version 2025.1 extends PhpStorm’s .env file support to include nested variables syntax.…
One of the most important tasks in Linux systems administration is process management, which involves several operations such as monitoring, signaling processes, and setting process priorities on the system. There are numerous Linux tools/utilities designed for monitoring and handling processes, such as top, ps, pgrep, kill, killall, nice, and many others. In this article, we shall uncover how to find processes using a powerful and resourceful Linux utility called fuser. What is a fuser in Linux? fuser is a simple yet powerful command-line utility intended to locate processes based on the files, directories, or sockets a particular process is accessing.…
Summary / Job Objective:Simplicity Group is looking for a talented, energetic, and team-oriented Senior Full Stack Developer to help build the industry’s leading platforms. The Senior Full Stack Developer will be a key member of a dynamic and growing group of developers that will help shape the future of how life insurance, annuities, and other financial services are bought and sold.We’re looking for senior web developers to build new web experiences, including sophisticated eApps, compelling agent websites, and platforms that help increase sales and reduce operational costs. We also create and integrate with API’s for automated underwriting, quoting, CRM, and…
As organizations strive for faster, more reliable software delivery, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines function as the critical arteries of modern development. However, when these essential pathways become slow, unreliable or require excessive manual intervention, they transform from conduits of innovation into significant sources of friction. This inefficiency does not just delay builds; it actively erodes the developer experience (DevEx), hindering productivity, lowering morale, contributing to burnout and ultimately stifling the pace of progress and innovation. “The #1 way you can optimize your CI/CD pipelines is to identify and leverage tools that reduce the amount of work that your developers…
As a newbie, one of the many things you should master in Linux is identifying the devices attached to your system. It could be your computer’s hard disk, an external hard drive, or removable media such as a USB drive or an SD memory card. Using USB drives for file transfer is super common these days, and for those (new Linux users) who prefer using the command line, learning how to identify a USB device name is really important, especially when you need to format it. Once you attach a device to your system, like a USB, it’s usually auto-mounted…
An analysis published by ReversingLabs, a provider of tools for securing application development environments, suggests that commercial software used in software supply chains is just as vulnerable as open-source code.Scans of more than two dozen widely used commercial-software binaries, including commercial operating systems, password managers, web browsers and virtual private network (VPN) software, found numerous risks, with many of the packages receiving a failing security grade due to the discovery of exposed secrets, actively exploited software vulnerabilities, evidence of possible code tampering and inadequate application hardening.ReversingLabs also scanned 20 distinct versions of VPN clients from six prominent vendors. Seven of…
We are announcing the upcoming deprecation of QEMU as a virtualization option for Docker Desktop on Apple Silicon Macs. After serving as our legacy virtualization solution during the early transition to Apple Silicon, QEMU will be fully deprecated 90 days from today, on July 14, 2025. This deprecation does not affect QEMU’s role in emulating non-native architectures for multi-platform builds. By moving to Apple Virtualization Framework or Docker VMM, you will ensure optimal performance. Why We’re Making This Change Our telemetry shows that a very small percentage of users are still using the QEMU option. We’ve maintained QEMU support for…
Hey fellow data friends! Wow, March was an absolutely crazy month (in the best way). It was incredible to see so many folks in Redmond for the MVP Summit, and holy cow FabCon was a whirlwind of amazing people to meet and see from the data community. Thank you so much to everyone who came and saw my session! You folks make presenting worth it, so thank you for all the thoughtful questions and for laughing at my puns and jokes! It was so great to see a few of my fellow P3 peers! Shout out to Garett Medlin, Jason…
The DevOps playbook is rapidly transforming because of recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). DevOps teams now have access to technology capable of improving automation and optimization in practically everything they do — from integration to delivery to infrastructure and more. AI tools also promote the ‘shift-left’ model, prompting cost-saving early bug detection and resolution. With AI having such wide-ranging positive effects, it is little wonder that organizations that quickly embraced it report experiencing improved customer satisfaction and increased service productivity. AI has made a powerful impact on traditionally inefficient DevOps areas, such as anomaly detection, root cause analysis, automation of…