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Reliability lessons from the 2025 AWS DynamoDB outage

On October 19th and 20th, 2025, the AWS region US-EAST-1 suffered a massive outage. What started with a 3-hour Amazon DynamoDB outage from a DNS issue led to an Amazon EC2 outage that lasted an additional 12 hours before normal service was restored. Over the course of the outage, there were over 17 million outage reports as companies like Snapchat, Roblox, Amazon, Reddit, Venmo, and more were impacted.

3 Ways to Embed Digital Strategy into DevOps and IT Operations

Let's be honest, in most companies, the people who handle "digital strategy" and the ones who keep the systems running barely speak the same language. The strategy folks are talking about growth, engagement, customer journeys. The ops teams? They're buried in uptime reports, patch schedules, and incident tickets. Somewhere in the middle, the actual connection between the two gets lost.

Speedscale Proxymock: Freely testing cloud native apps alongside AI code assistants

We’ll always remember 2025 as the year AI code assistants went big. Copilot, Cursor, Claude, Windsurf, whatever. Developers went from mistrusting these tools, to being expected to turn over much of their coding labor to them. Even if, according to an extensive Stack Overflow survey, only 3 percent of professional developers say they ‘highly trust’ AI coding tools.

How Prometheus Exporters Work With OpenTelemetry

Running distributed systems means you need clear visibility into how your services behave. Prometheus has been the standard for metrics for a long time, and OpenTelemetry is now giving teams a more consistent way to collect telemetry across their stack. In many setups, you'll have both: existing Prometheus instrumentation that's already in place, and new components instrumented with OpenTelemetry.

Autonomous Self-Healing Capabilities for Cloud-Native Infrastructure and Operations

Modern cloud-native infrastructure was adopted to increase agility and scale, but as it grows in scale and complexity, engineering teams are now drowning in operational noise. Industry research (The State of Observability for 2024) reveals that 88% of technology leaders report rising stack complexity, while 81% say manual troubleshooting actively detracts from innovation.

Hyperview DCIM 5.2 Software Release

This release focuses on giving you more control over your infrastructure connections and ensuring your monitoring tools run smoother than ever. From enhanced circuit management and expanded search capabilities to optimized data collectors and advanced Modbus support, this update delivers practical improvements that make your day-to-day operations more efficient.

Hyperview DCIM 5.1 Software Release

This release is all about helping you move faster, see more, and manage your infrastructure with greater ease. From real-time polling and smarter layout tools to expanded support for DC power and new visual enhancements in rack views, this update is packed with practical improvements. Plus, with French language support and key bug fixes, it’s more accessible and reliable than ever.

Navigating the path from startup speed to enterprise scale | Braintrust by Cortex

(00:20) The founding journey: from zero to one hundred customers(01:13) Day one: Building the first version of the service catalog(04:25) Why speed is a startup's only superpower(09:54) The mindset shift to enterprise-grade reliability and scale(13:06) How quality becomes a competitive advantage(14:46) High-leverage early decisions: writing tests and supporting on-prem(17:38) Balancing speed and quality in the age of AI(21:21) How AI will shift, not replace, engineering roles(26:53) Advice for engineering leaders working with founders.

Simple Talk Podcast - Coffee Chat with John Sterrett

Simple Talk Podcast – Coffee Chat with John Sterrett Description: Steve chats with John Sterrett, CEO of ProcureSQL, about his true love for data from a young age, how SQL Saturday and community events inspired him to start his own company, ProcureSQL’s use of AI to provide more value, and the impacts of work on relationships - plus much more!