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Business Hall Debrief: What Vendors Actually Shipped at Black Hat
By A. Rivera · May 10, 2026 · 7 min
Cutting through the booth-swag noise — the Business Hall announcements that will matter to defenders six months from now.
Your logs bill is a cardinality problem in disguise. High-cardinality labels are where the money goes.
Tail-based sampling gives you the traces that matter and drops the ones that don't — for about 10% of the ingest cost.
The goal isn't more data. The goal is a shorter path from 'something is wrong' to 'here is the offending commit'.