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metricfire

Reducing Alert Noise with Composite Alerts in Hosted Graphite

Jan 21, 2026 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
Traditional alerts are simple by design: if a metric crosses a threshold, fire an alert. While that simplicity makes alerts easy to configure, it also leads to alert noise, because single metrics rarely tell the full story and often trigger during non-actionable conditions. Hosted Graphite Composite Alerts solve this by allowing you to combine multiple alert conditions using logical expressions like AND (&&) and OR (||).
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circleci

Mastering waits and timeouts in Playwright

Jan 21, 2026 By Waweru Mwaura In CircleCI
If you have written any kind of end-to-end tests or UI tests you probably know that the greatest headache to deal with is test flakiness due to browser actions not behaving in the way that you expect them to behave. This flakiness can be a major bottleneck especially in CI/CD pipelines due to constant failures.
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certkit

Certificate permissions with CertKit Applications

Jan 21, 2026 By Todd H. Gardner In CertKit
When you’re managing a handful of certificates, one big list works fine. Add a few dozen more and things get messy. Add multiple teams or projects and you’ve got a problem. Who should have access to the production certificates? What about staging? Does the contractor working on the marketing site really need to see your internal infrastructure? CertKit now supports multiple applications from our roadmap to help you sort this out.
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control plane

Why Cost-Cutting Usually Breaks Your Product (And What to Do Instead)

Jan 21, 2026 By Barak Brudo In Control Plane
Reactive cloud cost-cutting leads to “Infrastructure Atrophy,” sacrificing performance and reliability for short-term savings. The 2026 solution is cloud cost optimization, leveraging scale-to-zero and pay-per-use architectures to eliminate idle waste without compromising product health.
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gitkraken

How GitKraken's AI-Powered Commit Composer Eliminates Git Cleanup Headaches

Jan 21, 2026 By Iva Dobreva In GitKraken
As developers, we’ve all been there: a frantic coding session, a few hasty commits, and suddenly our Git history looks like a patchwork quilt of “fix,” “oops,” and “stuff.” While git rebase -i is a powerful tool for cleaning up, it’s also a source of anxiety for many, often leading to more headaches than it solves. What if you could achieve a pristine, meaningful commit history without the fear of breaking things or hours spent squashing and rewriting?
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speedscale

ROI of Digital Twin Testing: Cut Testing Costs by 50%

Jan 20, 2026 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
When engineering leaders review their cloud bills, they often focus on production costs—the infrastructure serving real users, processing real transactions, generating real revenue. But there’s a shadow cost lurking in every cloud environment that often goes unnoticed until it becomes painful: non-production infrastructure.
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speedscale

Digital Twins Gone Wild: My Unexpected AI Doppelgänger

Jan 20, 2026 By Alan Mon In Speedscale
I recently tried using AI to create a digital twin of myself. I uploaded a photo, expecting a futuristic, slightly improved version of me... and what did I get in return? A picture of Kim Jong Un. Clearly, AI has a sense of humor-or a very different definition of "twin." Forget Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. Digital Twins 2-Now Starring My AI Doppelgänger From Speedscale's perspective, a digital twin is built from real production traffic, continuously updated, and executable in your test and CI/CD environments.
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speedscale

Moving Our Observability Data Collector from Sidecars to eBPF

Jan 20, 2026 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale
For years, the Kubernetes sidecar pattern has been a practical way to capture observability data. Running a collector alongside each application pod gave us deep visibility into traffic, including full request and response payloads across supported protocols. However, as cloud-native environments have grown more complex, the limitations of sidecars—such as resource overhead, operational complexity, and scaling challenges—have become more apparent.
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cloudzero

AI In 2026: Autonomous, Invisible, Expensive

Jan 20, 2026 By Bill Buckley In CloudZero
With all we’ve seen from AI in the last several years, it can be easy to forget that it’s still in its very early days. As torrid as its evolution has been thus far, it will only intensify. As SVP of Engineering at a B2B SaaS company, I’ve had a front-row seat for much of this evolution. Here are three ways I see AI heading in 2026.
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cortex

How AI amplifies your entire engineering culture

Jan 20, 2026 By Cristina Buenahora In Cortex
Anyone who has ever attempted to learn the guitar knows the lure of buying high-end gear. Surely, an expensive guitar and a best-in-class amplifier will hide the fact that you only know a few chords and maybe the lead line to that one song you keep hearing on the radio. What most players find out, however, is that spending thousands of dollars on gear doesn't change the fact that you're not that good yet.
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