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Master Kubernetes deployment strategies: Rolling Update, Recreate, Blue/Green, and Canary. Learn the pros, cons, and use cases to choose the right strategy based on your uptime, risk tolerance, and resources. Simplify complex rollouts with automation.

When developers monitor application performance, they pick one of two paths: traditional APM tools with distributed tracing and code profilers, or metrics-driven monitoring with Prometheus. The second approach — Prometheus APM — tracks the signals that matter most: request rates, error rates, latency, and resource utilization. No agents to install, no per-host pricing, just exporters and PromQL. For most teams, Prometheus APM is where monitoring starts.

In this ecosystem update, we share details of the latest additions to the Console Connect platform. This includes our expansion into Thailand with 13 new enabled data centre locations plus new cloud on-ramps available globally, giving you greater flexibility and choice to connect worldwide. Thailand is one of Asia’s fastest-growing digital hubs.

The obituary for the data center was written too soon. While the cloud dominates today’s IT headlines, traditional infrastructure hasn’t disappeared. It is evolving. Enterprises still rely on data centers for control, compliance, and reliability. However, they are increasingly needing the agility, scalability, and cost visibility that the cloud promises. Cloud managed data center services are bridging this gap.

GitKraken Desktop 11.5 delivers massive performance improvements where they count most, opening repos up to 5x faster, stash refreshes 100x faster, and branch/tag loading 100x faster. No workflow changes required. Just measurably faster Git operations that give you back your time and flow. Ready to see it in action? Check out the Youtube Tutorial below. We need to talk about something that’s been frustrating many of you: performance.