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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.

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.

Sustainable Cloud Computing in the UK: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Future

The tech industry's environmental impact is a growing concern, but can collaboration and innovation drive sustainability? At Civo Navigate London 2025, Regent Lee, Dinesh Majrekar, Liam McTague, and Simon Morris explored the challenges and opportunities of reducing emissions in the tech industry.

Set up a live code editor in Next.js with CircleCI

Interactive playgrounds have changed the way developers learn and experiment with code. Instead of having to copy and paste code into a separate Read–Eval–Print Loop (REPL) or local environment, users can write, edit, and run code directly within the tutorial or application interface. Adding this type of editor to a Next.js app makes it more engaging and helps users understand better by eliminating the need to switch between different tools.