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Reliability is about more than uptime
Reliability results are more than whether your application is up, it's about proactive measurement and keeping it up. Full transcript: Reliability results in my earlier career was, "Is there any downtime? Are there any errors that are getting thrown?" It's not a proactive way to measure your reliability. If you're measuring it in time of production, it's not gonna be an accurate reflection of what your reliability is. The way that my mindset has changed over time has been a proactive measurement. Before we ship something out, is this gonna be reliable from the start?
What Devs Missed (and Loved) During GitKraken AI All Access Week
TL;DR Missed GitKraken AI All Access Week? Here’s what went down, why devs are still buzzing about it, and how you can still get in on powerful AI tools that level up your Git workflow.
FireHydrant MCP Server User Guide
Tips and best practices to help you get up and running with FireHydrant's Model Context Protocol integration. Manage incidents, alerts, and retrospectives directly through AI assistants like Claude or Cursor. Welcome to the FireHydrant MCP Server user guide! This guide will help you get up and running with FireHydrant's Model Context Protocol integration, allowing you to manage incidents, alerts, and retrospectives directly through AI assistants like Claude or Cursor.
Platform Team Toolkit: Governance that accelerates developer velocity
Platform engineering teams face a critical challenge: scaling software delivery across dozens of development teams without killing innovation and velocity. The traditional approach forces an impossible choice: rigid standardization or operational chaos. Platform teams get buried in manual configuration requests, security updates take weeks to roll out, and compliance gaps emerge from inconsistent practices and developer workarounds.
HAProxy Enterprise WAF protects against Microsoft SharePoint CVE-2025-53770 / CVE-2025-53771
Critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint (CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771) are currently being exploited in the wild. Disclosed on July 19, 2025, these vulnerabilities have CVSS scores of 9.8 and 7.1 respectively, indicating severe and high risk. CVE-2025-53770 affects on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Servers, allowing unauthorized attackers to execute code over a network. CVE-2025-53771 affects Microsoft Office SharePoint, allowing authorized attackers to perform spoofing over a network.
Heroku Outages: Why Developers Are Now Seeking More Reliable Alternatives
Frequent Heroku outages, including a 15-hour disruption on June 10, 2025, are severely impacting businesses. Discover why developers are leaving Heroku for more reliable, cost-effective PaaS alternatives.
Ship Confluent Cloud Observability in Minutes
You're running Kafka on Confluent Cloud. You care about lag, throughput, retries, and replication. But where do you see those metrics? Confluent gives you metrics, sure, but not all in one place. Some live behind a metrics API, others behind Connect clusters or Schema Registries. You either wire them manually or give up. What if you could stream those metrics to a platform built for high-frequency, high-cardinality time series, and do it in minutes?
Building Systems For AI: Lessons On Governance From DevOps History
In 2008, Nuance hired me to join their Healthcare Speech Recognition team as a “Release Engineer.” DevOps wasn’t a thing yet — Patrick Debois and Andrew Shafer wouldn’t hold their first “DevOpsDays” until 2009. But I was lucky that “Release Engineer” at Nuance meant “jack of all trades” who wrote Makefiles, bash scripts, Perl, and Java to build and release code to a fleet of hundreds of on-premise Linux machines.