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GitKraken Desktop 12.6 Release: Stacked GitHub PRs, Multiple Terminal Tabs

Ready to interact with the stack? GitKraken Desktop 12.6 makes it easier than ever to ship large features and manage multi-task terminal workflows without context switching or losing track of your work. What's new in 12.6: Stacked GitHub Pull Requests: Start a pull request stack against a branch that already has an open PR to break large feature branches into smaller pieces. Stack Visibility Everywhere: View stack position, status, and sequence numbers across the Left Panel PR list, the Pull Request view, and the Commit Graph.

How to Use Jira Planner to Plan Software Projects

Jira Planner is an AI planning agent in Jira that turns high-level product requirements into ready-to-build plans (requirements, technical specs, and Jira work items) grounded in your actual codebase, architecture, and Confluence context. In this video, you'll see how Jira Planner brings due diligence to the pre-build phase, so engineers and AI coding agents start from a plan that reflects the real code instead of a vague prompt. It's useful for product managers, engineering leads, and developers who want to cut the rework that comes from AI guessing at requirements.

GitKraken Insights | AI feels faster. Make sure it is.

AI feels faster. Make sure it is. GitKraken Insights shows engineering leaders the real cost, output, and ROI of their AI investment, per tool, per team, per developer. Then it gives every developer their own data and coaching to get more from it. 84% of developers say they feel more productive with AI. Only about one in five can actually measure the impact.* With GitKraken Insights, you can: We run on it ourselves: GitKraken's own engineering org reached 2.53x output in six months.

The 5 Stages of AI-Human Collaboration to Improve Operational Reliability

AI adoption is now a measurable driver of both uptime and growth. According to PagerDuty’s 2026 State of AI-First Digital Operations report, 75% of organizations actively incorporating AI into digital operations claim to have improved operational resilience and maturity over the past year. The same report suggests AI in operations is also a revenue driver.

SSL Certificate Expiry Alerts in Slack

Certificate expiry is the most predictable outage in all of infrastructure. The date is printed inside the certificate. You can read it ninety days ahead. Nothing about it is a surprise, and yet SSL certificate expiry alerts remain one of the most common gaps in otherwise mature monitoring setups, and expired certificates keep taking down production systems at companies with serious engineering teams.

Google Calendar On-Call Rotation Template

Most teams building an on-call rotation template in Google Calendar get the first two steps right and the third one wrong. Creating a shared calendar is easy. Inviting the team is easy. Expressing "four people, one week each, forever, handing off Monday morning" as a set of recurring events is where it falls apart, usually into a mess of one off entries that someone has to rebuild by hand every quarter.

Cron Job Monitoring: Catch Silent Failures

Cron job monitoring is the part of observability most teams skip until a backup turns out to have stopped running three weeks ago. A web server that falls over generates errors, trips a threshold and pages someone inside a minute. A nightly job that quietly stops running generates nothing at all. There is no error rate to alert on, no latency spike, no failed health check. There is only an absence, and absence is invisible to almost every monitoring setup by default.

24/7 On-Call Coverage With a Small Team

Running 24/7 on-call coverage with a small team is first of all an arithmetic problem, and most teams avoid doing the arithmetic because the answer is uncomfortable. There are 168 hours in a week. Your engineers work roughly 40 of them. Somebody has to be reachable for the other 128, and if you have four engineers, that somebody is each of them, one week in four, thirteen weeks a year.