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Expanding Your Infrastructure Automation Across the Lifecycle Using Puppet Edge

Infrastructure automation is evolving… and so is Puppet! While Puppet has long been known for its strength in Day 2 operations through agent-based desired state configuration, Puppet also extends across Day 0 and Day 1 tasks. With Puppet Edge, you can target network devices alongside your existing infrastructure, enabling your teams to manage more scenarios, more devices, and more workflows. All from a single platform.

Onboarding with Cortex

Onboarding to Cortex has never been easier. In this video, discover how Cortex and Magellan, our AI-powered data engine, make it possible to go from a blank slate to a fully functional internal developer portal in just minutes, not months. What you’ll learn in this video: With Cortex, you can skip manual setup and start exploring your connected engineering ecosystem immediately. From day one, you’ll have visibility into services, ownership, and metrics, empowering your teams to drive standards and deliver value faster.

A 5-step enterprise guide to IaCM

As enterprises scale, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) alone isn’t enough to manage the growing complexity of modern infrastructure. Infrastructure as Code Management (IaCM) elevates IaC into a strategic, governed, and automated framework, providing centralized control, compliance, and collaboration at scale. Platforms like Harness IaCM make this transformation practical, turning infrastructure chaos into consistent, secure, and efficient operations.

Cloud vs Colocation: strategic infrastructure choices for long-term value

Organisations are no longer limited to running everything in-house. The real question is where different workloads should sit to deliver the best long-term results. For many, that means weighing up cloud vs colocation. Both offer advantages over traditional infrastructure but serve different aims. Cloud makes it simple to scale and launch new services, while colocation provides predictable costs, direct control, and stronger assurance for compliance.

10 Critical Factors to Consider When Choosing a Colocation Provider

Colocation remains one of the key ways for businesses in Europe and the United States to host their corporate IT infrastructure. Companies place their equipment in a provider's data center to gain industrial-grade reliability, round-the-clock support, and access to high-speed networks - all while maintaining full control over configuration and security.

QA Debt: The Silent Risk That Can Take Down Your Business

In engineering, we talk a lot about technical debt — the shortcuts and compromises made in code that pile up over time. But there’s another kind of debt that’s just as dangerous and far more invisible: QA debt. QA debt is what happens when testing isn’t given the same attention as features, architecture, or performance. It’s the accumulation of missed edge cases, outdated test suites, incomplete automation, or skipped regression checks.

The Performance & Cloud Pain Point | Unlocking SD-WAN's True Role in Your Digital Transformation

You've invested in high-quality internet, but your cloud apps are still lagging. The problem might not be your connection, but the path your data takes to get there. Discover how SD-WAN intelligently routes traffic to prioritise critical applications, ensuring a seamless user experience for your distributed workforce. Curious about how SD-WAN can address cloud performance challenges?

How OpenTelemetry Auto-Instrumentation Works

Most developers use auto-instrumentation as it’s meant to be used — run the Java agent, add NODE_OPTIONS, and telemetry starts flowing. When it stops, though, figuring out why can be tricky. Maybe the agent didn’t load, maybe there’s a framework version mismatch, or something else entirely. Understanding how auto-instrumentation works makes it easier to spot and fix these issues.

15 PHP APM Tools Worth Using in 2025

PHP powers a large swath of the web — from blogs to storefronts to APIs. But with microservices, third-party dependencies, and scaling complexity, performance can slip in subtle ways. Your app might mostly work, but small—noted delays, occasional spikes, or hidden bottlenecks build up. An APM tool helps you see inside the black box: which functions are slow, which DB queries are hogging time, which external calls are failing or stalling.

Navigating AI transformation ft. Meg Adams, Senior Director of Engineering at The New York Times

In this episode of The Confident Commit, Rob Zuber sits down with Meg Adams, Senior Director of Engineering at The New York Times, for a deep dive into leading engineering teams through the AI revolution while staying true to organizational mission. Meg shares how the Times approaches AI adoption with a "measured but focused" strategy, emphasizing experimentation and opinion-formation over mandates, and why she believes AI serves as a force multiplier for what already exists in your organization and workflows.