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Part 1: Building a Production-Grade Traffic Capture and Replay System

A few years ago I was on call during the Super Bowl. At the time I was working for an observability vendor and one of our customers had an outage caused by a surge in user traffic. But our monitoring system didn’t have enough data to know what went wrong and I sat on a call for 2 hours painfully listening to them spinning up more servers and trying to catch up with the user load.

The Future of AI: How Civo is Democratizing Access to Advanced Infrastructure

The world of cloud computing is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As AI continues to evolve and improve, it's becoming increasingly clear that access to advanced AI infrastructure is crucial for businesses to remain competitive. During Civo Navigate London 2025, Josh Mesout spoke about the importance of of AI for the future of cloud computing and how Civo is working to democratize access to advanced AI infrastructure.

4 Everyday IT Headaches You Can Eliminate with Enterprise IT Automation

Every IT operator anywhere on the team ladder dreads this feeling: another day, another flood of service desk tickets. Like cockroaches, they come in waves and they’re repetitive. Worse still, they distract your teams from higher-value work. Ironically for the amount of disruption they can cause, most of these tickets are not complex incidents or novel challenges. They’re the same everyday IT headaches your enterprise has been dealing with for years.

Build Vs. Buy? Why Creating Your Own Cost Management Platform Is Futile

The siren song of building a custom, internal cloud cost management platform is enticing. Many brilliant engineering teams are convinced they can come up with a bespoke solution that perfectly fits their needs. They look at their company’s unique infrastructure and decide they can DIY cost management without having to rely on an external vendor. Believe me, I get the temptation.

GitKraken Insights | Engineering Intelligence in Minutes

Most software intelligence tools take months to implement, cost a fortune, and end up collecting dust. GitKraken Insights is different. It helps engineering leaders measure what matters: AI impact, code quality, delivery performance, and developer experience, all in one place. It’s the latest evolution of the GitKraken DevEx platform, trusted by over 40 million developers. Insights connects data from across your GitKraken tools to give you a complete picture of engineering health and value. We're talking DORA metrics, pull request metrics, and AI impact.

Why Every Developer Needs Their Own AI Knowledge Base (It's Easier Than You Think)

Ever feel like you're drowning in documentation scattered across Confluence, Slack, Jira, and Git commits? Kyle Fransham, Senior VP of R&D at Superna, shares why every developer should run their own local LLM and shows you exactly how to do it. In this GitKon talk, Kyle reveals how to turn your personal "master document of knowledge" into a queryable AI assistant running directly on your laptop. No cloud dependencies, no organization bottlenecks...just your own development copilot that understands your unique workflows, tips, and tribal knowledge.