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Reliability Resolutions: How to build effective reliability programs that won't fade away

Did you know the third week of January is the most common time for people to fail New Year’s Resolutions? It doesn’t matter whether it’s exercising more, learning a new language, or just trying to drink less coffee, that initial surge of fresh New Year’s energy is fading, and if you want to make a resolution stick, this is the key time to make a lasting change. The same is true with any reliability resolutions you might have made.

Harness AutoStopping - FinOps Automation for Intelligent Cloud Cost Optimization | Harness Blog

Harness AutoStopping helps FinOps teams eliminate up to 70% of idle cloud spend through intelligent, policy-driven automation. By automatically stopping and restarting unused resources without disrupting developers, organizations move from reactive cost reporting to continuous, proactive cloud cost optimization.

ROI of Digital Twin Testing: Cut Testing Costs by 50%

When engineering leaders review their cloud bills, they often focus on production costs—the infrastructure serving real users, processing real transactions, generating real revenue. But there’s a shadow cost lurking in every cloud environment that often goes unnoticed until it becomes painful: non-production infrastructure.
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Digital Twins Gone Wild: My Unexpected AI Doppelgänger

I recently tried using AI to create a digital twin of myself. I uploaded a photo, expecting a futuristic, slightly improved version of me... and what did I get in return? A picture of Kim Jong Un. Clearly, AI has a sense of humor-or a very different definition of "twin." Forget Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. Digital Twins 2-Now Starring My AI Doppelgänger From Speedscale's perspective, a digital twin is built from real production traffic, continuously updated, and executable in your test and CI/CD environments.

Moving Our Observability Data Collector from Sidecars to eBPF

For years, the Kubernetes sidecar pattern has been a practical way to capture observability data. Running a collector alongside each application pod gave us deep visibility into traffic, including full request and response payloads across supported protocols. However, as cloud-native environments have grown more complex, the limitations of sidecars—such as resource overhead, operational complexity, and scaling challenges—have become more apparent.

How CIOs Build the Business Case for IT Automation ROI

CIOs rarely struggle to find automation ideas. What they struggle with is getting those ideas funded, then keeping support once the first few workflows go live. We built this guide for IT leaders who need a credible, repeatable way to present IT automation ROI in language that resonates with the C suite. If you are shaping an automation program across service desk, IT operations, and network operations, our Agentic Automation for CIOs & CTO’s hub lays out the strategic lens.

ServiceNow Without the Ticket Hell

ServiceNow is the system of record for change and approvals in most regulated enterprises. And yet, for many teams, it has become the place where delivery slows to a crawl. Not because ServiceNow is broken. But because the evidence model underneath it is. Developers ship fast through modern CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and security scans, only to hit a wall when changes reach approval. Tickets bounce back. Evidence is questioned. Screenshots do not tell the full story. CABs hesitate. Releases wait.

Evidence, Not Screenshots. How Teams Stay Always Audit-Ready in ServiceNow

In regulated environments, slow change is often blamed on process. Too many approvals. Too much governance. Too much red tape. But in reality, most delays are not caused by regulation itself. They are caused by missing, fragmented, or untrusted evidence. Screenshots pasted into tickets. Proof assembled weeks later. Approvals stalled because no one can confidently say whether a change actually meets policy. When evidence is an afterthought, compliance turns into chaos.

Event Intelligence Solutions - A New Era for IT Operations

In an era where digital performance defines business success, large enterprises are embracing Event Intelligence Solutions (EIS) to keep services available, resilient, customer-facing operations protected from disruption. According to Gartner, Event Intelligence Solutions use AI and advanced analytics to enhance and automate how organizations respond to signals generated by digital services.