Dynatrace this week revealed it has agreed to acquire Bindplane , a provider of a platform for pre-processing and routing telemetry data. Bob Wambach, vice president of market and customer insights for Dynatrace, said the addition of the Bindplane platform will further accelerate a rapid expansion of the log management capability that Dynatrace already provides. However, instead of requiring all telemetry data to be processed in the backend on its observability platform, IT teams will have the option to pre-process that data to reduce costs and streamline workflows, he added. Additionally, Dynatrace is committed to ensuring the Bindplane platform remains agnostic after the acquisition closes this month, which means IT teams will be able to route telemetry data to multiple backend systems, noted Wambach. While there has been some debate over the merits of using, for example, an OpenTelemetry agent to pre-process telemetry data, the massive expansion of the amount of telemetry data ...
CloudBees has made generally available an add-on for continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to determine which tests should be run first based on the likelihood there will be a failure. Shawn Ahmed, chief product officer at CloudBees, said CloudBees Smart Tests eliminates the need to run an entire testbed. Instead, this extension to a CI/CD platform surfaces which specific tests are likely to fail, which allows a DevOps team to run them first rather than waiting hours, or sometimes even days, to run an entire suite of tests, noted Ahmed. Additionally, DevOps teams can run those tests in parallel to further reduce the amount of time required to vet an application workload, which in turn reduces the overall amount of CI/CD processing overhead, added Ahmed. That capability is now especially critical in the age of AI as the amount of code being generated continues to exponentially increase, he noted. In fact, because most...