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Using the internet often feels effortless when clicking a link or joining a call, but behind that simplicity lies a highly structured system that ensures data moves efficiently across the globe. One of the key building blocks of this system is the Autonomous System Number (ASN).

Ready to scale beyond 100G? Learn why 400G is on the rise, when to use it, and how to deploy it. Network traffic is growing exponentially. Cloud adoption, AI, large-scale data replication, video streaming, and generative applications are all drivers, and enterprises with traditional connectivity setups may find themselves struggling to keep up. Enter 400-gigabit Ethernet (400G): a high-capacity, scalable networking standard that enables you to build faster and more cost-efficient networks at scale.

Alert fatigue doesn’t announce itself. It builds quietly over weeks and months until one day a critical incident triggers and nobody responds with the urgency it deserves. By that point, the damage is already done. This guide walks through what alert fatigue actually is, how it happens, and what you can do about it.

AWS re:Invent 2025 made one thing very clear: enterprise interest in AI is no longer theoretical. The conversation has moved beyond curiosity. Teams are actively experimenting, leaders are looking for production-ready use cases, and engineering organizations are trying to figure out where AI can create real leverage across software delivery, security, platform engineering, and operations.

When I read about the Vercel breach tied to a Context AI compromise, I wasn’t surprised. I’ve been talking with customers for a while now about how AI was going to introduce a new kind of supply chain risk. This is exactly what that looks like. What stands out to me is how familiar the pattern is. We saw it with open source, then again with SaaS, and again with cloud.

The latest VirtualMetric DataStream release (version 1.10.1) focuses on three things security and infrastructure teams consistently need: better credential management, faster agent deployment at scale, and broader connectivity. Here’s what’s new.

A customer asked me once, in the middle of a demo, "what is lorem ipsum?" That is the moment. The preview URL loaded. Every page rendered. The merge was clean, the build was green, the tests passed. And a customer I was trying to sell to was reading placeholder copy out loud on a shared screen. I've thought about that moment a lot. Not for the embarrassment, though I earned it. For what it told me about what a preview environment actually is, which is not what most of us think it is.

Merge conflicts can bring a small team’s momentum to a grinding halt. You’re working on a feature, ready to push your changes, and suddenly Git throws up conflict markers that demand your attention. For smaller teams where everyone touches the same codebase, these interruptions stack up fast. This guide walks you through the root causes of frequent merge conflicts and gives you actionable tactics to prevent them.