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How to achieve Kubernetes observability: Principles and best practices

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Kubernetes (K8s) containers and environments are the leading approach to packaging, deploying and managing containerized applications at scale. But managing the sheer volume of data, nodes, pods, services and endpoints that comprise Kubernetes environments requires observability practices that are appropriate for the job.

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Understanding the Shipping Container Shortage!

Supply Chain Game Changer

In short, increased demand for physical goods – as well as China’s massively growing export market – has made shipping containers scarce, and shipping more expensive, harder to come by, and more bottlenecked. It’s yet another example of how vital supply chain management is to today’s global economy. Building supply chain agility.

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The Endless Complexities of the Ocean side of Supply Chains

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A good way to understand longer end-to-end transit times which under the current scenario have increased dramatically on most of the major trade lanes is to take a closer look at where delays are more likely to happen. An AI optimization model which considers all costs that occur during the container lifecycle is needed.

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How does your tech stack, stack up?

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Working in supply chain or inventory management can be busy and stressful. Keeping on top of your to-do list, building supplier and customer relationships, and tracking orders and deliveries is challenging even for the most organized and efficient inventory manager. Warehouse management. Inventory management has many facets.

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How to Establish Your Brand in Food Importing and Exporting!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Common Mistakes in Importing and Exporting! Food importing and exporting article and permission to publish here provided by Emma Wilson. More business people shift their focus to the food commodity import and export. How do you establish your brand in the highly competitive food importing and exporting marketplace?

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OpenTelemetry vs. Prometheus: You can’t fix what you can’t see

IBM Supply Chain Blog

OpenTelemetry or OTel, is a platform that is designed to create a centralized location for generating, collecting, exporting and managing telemetry data, including logs, metrics and traces. OpenTelemetry collector: The OTel collector receives, processes and exports, telemetry data. What is OpenTelemetry?

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Instana 2023: Recapping our latest innovation

IBM Supply Chain Blog

First-class OpenTelemetry support Full-stack observability demands thorough visibility and comprehension. OpenTelemetry serves as an indispensable tool for achieving comprehensive visibility, facilitating streamlined practices with common instrumentation, portable formats and interoperable pipelines. Ansible®, PagerDuty, etc.).