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.NET Blog

.NET Conf 2026

.NET Conf returns November 10-12, 2026, with three days of sessions, community, and the launch of .NET 11. The post .NET Conf 2026 appeared first on .NET Blog.

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AWS News Blog

Happy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2

On the 20th Anniversary, we recognize how AWS has continued to push the boundaries of what cloud computing can deliver, building custom silicon for general-purpose and AI workloads and expanding EC2 into new form factors and deployment models that our customers in 2006 could not have imagined.

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DZone

Tail-Based Sampling in the OpenTelemetry Collector: Keeping the Traces That Matter

Head-based sampling makes a decision the instant a trace starts, before anyone knows whether that trace is boring or the one you will spend Friday night chasing. That is the wrong time to decide. At that point the request has not failed yet, and the slow dependency call that will define it is still milliseconds away. Head sampling commits before any of that is visible, so it discards a random slice of exactly the traces you will later wish you had kept. Tail-based sampling flips the order. It bu

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