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Articles by David Hope

Director of Product Marketing, Elastic

David Hope is a dedicated IT professional with over 16 years of diverse experience spanning from development, DevOps, leadership, sales, and product marketing. David currently lives in the USA with his family and moved here eight years ago from the UK after meeting his wife in Buffalo, NY.

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Modern observability can be a challenge for organizations, but the benefits and improvements are measurable. Find out what the industry is seeing today and why observability maturity matters.

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Understanding APM: How to add extensions to the OpenTelemetry Java Agent

This blog post provides a comprehensive guide for Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and IT Operations to gain visibility and traceability into applications, especially those written with non-standard frameworks or without access to the source code.

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Gaining new perspectives beyond logging: An introduction to application performance monitoring

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