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Update (March 2026): AWS has announced that AWS Proton will reach end of life on October 7, 2026. After that date, the Proton console, API, and pipeline management will be permanently unavailable. If you're currently using Proton, read our migration guide.

AWS Proton is reaching end of life. If you're reading this, you probably just found out — either from the AWS console banner, your account manager, or a panicked Slack message from someone on your platform team. Here's what you need to know: your infrastructure is safe, but the tool you use to manage it is going away. You have until October 7, 2026 to find a replacement. That sounds like plenty of time. It isn't.

It's 4:17 PM on a Friday. You've been working on this feature for three days. The code is clean, the tests pass locally, and you're ready to ship. You push to staging and... nothing works. The API returns 500s. The database schema doesn't match. The feature flags are in some impossible state. You open Slack. Someone in-environment has already posted: "Hey, who deployed to staging? My tests are all failing now." Three other developers respond.

Platform engineering is rapidly evolving as businesses look for more efficient ways to manage infrastructure, automate workflows, and improve developer productivity. In this edition, we’ll explore the top 10 platform engineering platforms for March 2026, optimized for scalability, automation, and ease of use. These platforms empower developers to focus on building code while platform engineers handle infrastructure with reduced complexity.

Continuous Integration (CI) is an essential practice in modern software development that enables developers to continuously integrate their code changes into a shared repository. Through automated building and testing processes, CI ensures that every code change is tested thoroughly, preventing integration issues and improving software quality. In this article, we will explore the best practices for effective Continuous Integration testing.

Updated March 03, 2026 One of the things that keep online shop owners awake at night is – will my website withstand the Black Friday traffic? As this is one of the most important days of the year, a downtime of even a few minutes can translate into thousands of dollars in losses. This is why we’ve decided to come to your aid with a hands-on article where we discuss the most common Black Friday problems eCommerce websites should avoid, and how you can avoid them.