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Developer Onboarding

Nov 4, 2025 By Cortex | Internal Developer Portal In Cortex
Welcome to the future of developer onboarding with Cortex. In this demo, you’ll see how Cortex helps new engineers ramp up faster by giving them instant access to everything they need—context, ownership, best practices, and workflows—all in one place. What you’ll learn in this video: With Cortex, onboarding becomes a structured, data-driven, and empowering experience. Developers can explore your ecosystem confidently, follow golden paths, and start delivering value immediately—reducing ramp-up time from months to days.
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spike

MTBF, MTTR, MTTF, MTTA: Incident Metrics Explained

Nov 4, 2025 By Randhir Kumar In Spike
No doubt that incidents are inevitable. However, it’s how you manage them (detect, respond to, and resolve) that matters. And a robust incident management process relies on data, not guesswork. Incident Management metrics like MTBF, MTTR, MTTF, and MTTA provide measurable insight into reliability, response time, and recovery performance. When used together, they help identify weaknesses, reduce downtime, and build more resilient systems.
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Harness patent for hybrid YAML editor enhances CI/CD workflows

Nov 4, 2025 By Vardan Bansal In Harness
Harness earned a patent for it's unified pipeline editor which makes it easy to configure pipelines whether they are for CI, CD, IaC, database migrations, service onboarding or other DevSecOps activities. ‍ We're thrilled to share some exciting news: Harness has been granted U.S. Patent US20230393818B2 (originally published as US20230393818A1) for our configuration file editor with an intelligent code-based interface and a visual interface.
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SRE vs DevOps vs Platform Engineering: What Are the Key Differences

Nov 4, 2025 By Randhir Kumar In Spike
Software delivery is more complex than ever. Teams need speed, reliability, and scalability to stay competitive. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, and Platform Engineering are three key disciplines that address these challenges. Though these terms are often used together, they are not the same and share distinct differences. In this blog, we’ll discuss each term individually, compare SRE vs. DevOps vs. Platform Engineering, and also show how they work together.
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Observability vs. Monitoring: What's the Difference?

Nov 4, 2025 By Randhir Kumar In Spike
Modern systems are complex, distributed, and fast-changing, so keeping them reliable requires more than watching dashboards. Observability vs. Monitoring explains how teams gain the deep insight needed to detect, diagnose, and resolve issues. Monitoring collects predefined metrics and alerts you to known problems, while observability provides rich, contextual telemetry to investigate unknown failures.
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When Breaches Expose Your Secrets: Why Automation is the Key to Fast, Scalable Remediation

Nov 4, 2025 By Puppet In Puppet
In early October, Red Hat disclosed a breach of a GitLab system used by its Consulting division. Threat actors claim to have exfiltrated hundreds of gigabytes of project data — and while investigations are still underway, reports suggest consulting engagement artifacts may have been impacted. For the organizations involved, the concern isn’t limited to reputational damage.
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Stop Getting Charged for Test Emails! #speedscale #aws #ses

Nov 4, 2025 By Speedscale In Speedscale
Tired of local development using AWS SES leading to spam, cloud costs, and unnecessary API calls? When testing your app, you shouldn't have to connect to a live cloud environment just to send a test email. Learn how to set up your own local ProxyMock server to intercept and record real SES calls, so you can replay them instantly and accurately without ever leaving your desktop.
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devart

New Devart Python Connectors Add Broader Compatibility and Stronger Security

Nov 3, 2025 By DAC Team In Devart
We are thrilled to announce a major update to our Python Connectors line. The release adds support for Python 3.14, PostgreSQL 18, MySQL 9, and MariaDB 12, introduces modern authentication and security options, and delivers notable performance gains across several connectors.
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manageengine

How IT teams can finally break free from manual AD management

Nov 3, 2025 By Thamizh Poonkuil Mozhi M In ManageEngine
If there’s one thing every IT leader can agree on, it’s this: Manual Active Directory (AD) management never ends. There’s always one more access request, one more approval chain, and one more audit reminder flashing on your screen. By the time you’ve closed your last ticket of the day, there’s already another one waiting. For many teams, 2025 became the year of “we’ll automate next quarter.” But next quarter came and went without any automation.
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harness

Intent-Driven Assertions are Redefining How We Test Software

Nov 3, 2025 By Shibam Dhar In Harness
Traditional UI testing struggles to keep up with rapid design and workflow changes, often focusing on brittle selectors rather than user outcomes. Harness AI Test Automation introduces intent-driven, natural language assertions that understand what teams want to verify, not just how tests are written.
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