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How to eliminate DevOps toil in regulated SaaS

In regulated industries like fintech, healthcare, and government, DevOps teams often find themselves acting as human compliance gateways. The pressure to maintain strict security standards while accelerating release cycles creates a compliance tax: a heavy burden of manual environment setups, security review tickets, and the inevitable scramble for evidence before an audit. This manual labor, or toil, is more than a drain on productivity. It creates a dangerous gap between policy and actual operations.

Scaling Infrastructure Teams: The Increasing Need for Rust Engineers

The Infrastructure teams have had to continuously improve current systems to make them faster, safer, and more reliable. With the growth of cloud services, the complexity of applications, and the demand for low-latency processing, engineering teams still need the best tools and languages to build these systems. The traditional languages that have been used for decades to power system-level development, i.e., C, C++, and Java, have long been the standard. But as software system complexity becomes unsustainable, the factors that limit safety, memory management, and concurrency are becoming increasingly obvious.

Oracle JDK to OpenJDK: A Guide to Reliable Migration Testing

One of the most common infrastructure changes Java developers and operators are dealing with today is the migration from Oracle Java to OpenJDK. The reason is the licensing changes made by Oracle and the maturity of the OpenJDK distributions. The migration process is quite simple: replace the JDK, recompile the code, and redeploy the application. However, the differences between the two runtimes can lead to unexpected issues that are not caught by unit tests.

Speedscale Named in Gartner Market Guide for API Testing

In the highly dynamic environment of modern engineering, an appropriate strategy for API quality is more important than ever. We are pleased to announce that Speedscale has been named in the latest “Market Guide for API and MCP Testing Tools” report from Gartner. As software development is shifting towards complex distributed architectures, integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) for AI-based workflows, the need for realistic testing has never been higher.

4 on-call burnout signs (and how to address them)

Being on-call can sometimes feel overwhelming. If that feeling goes unnoticed for too long, it often translates into burnout. And early burnout signs usually show up in ways, like how people respond to incidents or how they feel about the schedule. This guide walks through four such signs that can be useful to watch for before on-call burnout sets in.

The foundations of software: open source libraries and their maintainers

Open source libraries are repositories of code that developers can use and, depending on the license, contribute to, modify, and redistribute. Open source libraries are usually developed on a platform like GitHub, and distributed using package registries like PyPI for Python and npm for JavaScript. These repositories contain pre-written, re-usable code that developers use to add elements or features within their software projects.

Environment support in Terraform Provider for Kosli - v0.2.0

We’re excited to announce support of physical environments in the Terraform Provider for Kosli! What’s Included Environment Management: Full lifecycle support for creating, updating, and managing physical environments types: K8S, ECS, S3, docker, server, and lambda. Manage legacy environments as IaC: Import your existing physical environments to have Terraform manage them.

How To Design AI-Native SaaS Architecture That Scales Without Killing Your Margins

AI-native SaaS products aren’t failing because the models are bad. They’re failing because the architecture can’t keep up with how AI actually behaves in production. What looks affordable in staging can erode your margins once real customers, workflows, and automation come into play. Designing AI-native SaaS architecture is now as much a margin decision as it is a technical one.

Rovo Dev Code Review in Bitbucket and GitHub | Bitbucket Blitz | Atlassian

The demo portion of a recent webinar I did shows how to setup, configure, and use Rovo Dev code review in both Bitbucket and GitHub. Learn how to add custom coding standards to your repositories and see Rovo Dev check for the specific things you care about during code reviews. Learn how to add acceptance criteria to your Jira work items and see Rovo Dev verify them during code reviews.