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Beyond event badges: How autonomy and growth create space for creative experiments

Hi, Riley Durham here. I’m an Event Marketing Manager and Social Media Marketer at Cortex, and I’m here to share how a culture of autonomy and excellence has opened doors for career growth at Cortex. Before joining Cortex, I worked in the DevSec tool space, wearing multiple hats managing events, demand generation, social media, and direct mail marketing. That variety gave me a solid foundation in full-funnel marketing, but it was joining Cortex that really accelerated my growth trajectory.

dotConnect for Oracle: Powerful .NET data access with full ORM support

Elevate your.NET development with dotConnect for Oracle — a high-performance ADO.NET data provider built for enterprise-grade Oracle data access. In this video, discover how dotConnect for Oracle streamlines database connectivity, boosts developer productivity, and enables robust, scalable applications across the.NET ecosystem. What you’ll see: Whether you're building enterprise applications or high-throughput data services, dotConnect for Oracle delivers the performance, flexibility, and reliability your projects demand.

Why is the Trust in Big Tech Fracturing? Next Steps for the Cloud Industry

To read more on the findings from this research, visit The Digital Sovereignty Revolution whitepaper by clicking here. For years, US tech giants have enjoyed near-unquestioned dominance over the global cloud market. However, this dominance is being challenged as trust in Big Tech begins to fracture. According to our latest whitepaper, "The Digital Sovereignty Revolution", the foundation of trust in Big Tech's infrastructure and services is cracking.

Customizing your Azure DevOps DORA metrics dashboard

Looking to configure and customize a DORA metrics dashboard? Our Director of Engineering Services, Tim Wheeler, demonstrates how to customize the DORA Metrics dashboard in Azure DevOps for SquaredUp. He shows how to populate key metrics like deployment frequency and change failure rate by selecting a pipeline, specifically the Squared Up multi-stage pipeline.

Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies: How Mid-Size Organisations Can Reduce Cloud Infra Costs

Learn how mid-size companies can dramatically cut cloud infrastructure costs using practical strategies like compute rightsizing, serverless, storage tiering, and automated scaling. This guide also explores how Qovery simplifies and automates cost optimization for growing teams - no full DevOps team required.

HAProxyConf 2025 Recap

A lot can change in three years. The world of 2022 was a quite different place. Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-serving living monarch, the world population hadn’t yet cracked eight billion, and many of us were still emerging from the strangeness of the Covid years. Meanwhile, at HAProxyConf 2022, we unveiled HAProxy Fusion Control Plane for the first time.

6 OpsGenie Alternatives for On-Call Management

You’re likely here because you heard the news: Atlassian ended new sales for OpsGenie on June 4, 2025, with a complete shutdown scheduled for April 2027. For years, OpsGenie has been the backbone of on-call management for countless teams. It might have been your team’s trusted solution too. But now, that chapter is closing. The pressure to find an OpsGenie alternative for on-call is real. However, you can’t just pick any tool and hope it works for your team.

Improve Consistency Across Signals with OTel Semantic Conventions

It’s 2 AM. Your API is timing out. Logs show a slow query. Metrics flag a spike in DB connections. Traces reveal a 5-second delay on a database call. But then the questions start:- Which database?- Does the query match the delay?- Why doesn’t this align with the connection pool metrics? Each tool uses different labels, db.name, database, sometimes nothing at all. Without a shared schema, connecting the dots is slow and frustrating.

How Replicas Work in Kubernetes

Replicas in Kubernetes control how many copies of your pods run simultaneously. They're the foundation of scaling, availability, and recovery in your cluster. When you're running a stateless API or a background worker, understanding how replicas work directly impacts your application's reliability and performance. This blog walks through replica management, from basic concepts to production monitoring patterns that help you maintain healthy, scalable applications.

See System Logs Alongside your Metrics Using Loki, Grafana, and Graphite

In this quick demo, we show how you can transform logs collected by Grafana Loki into actionable Graphite metrics using MetricFire. Watch as we convert structured logs into performance insights. Perfect for teams looking to bridge the gap between logging and monitoring. This workflow helps you move beyond basic log storage and turn raw logs into meaningful metrics for alerts, dashboards, and capacity planning.