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Announcing HAProxy ALOHA 17.5

HAProxy ALOHA 17.5 is now available. This release delivers powerful new capabilities that improve security and performance — while future-proofing HAProxy ALOHA to enable richer features and advanced functionality. With this release, we’re introducing HTTPS health checks to Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB), new partitioning for larger firmware updates, enhanced web application firewall (WAF) functionality, and our new Threat Detection Engine (TDE).

Top 11 Ruby APM Tools for 2025: A Performance-Driven Selection

Observability has become a core part of running Ruby applications at scale. Knowing how your app performs — from request latency to background job execution — helps catch slowdowns early and improve reliability. This blog walks through some of the most useful APM tools for Ruby in 2025. Each section highlights what the tool does well, where it fits best, and what kind of visibility it brings to your application's performance.

Single-Cloud Dependency Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen

The impact of the AWS outage has reminded many businesses of the risk for businesses that rely heavily on centralised cloud infrastructure, especially when so many essential services are concentrated in a single region. But at the wider industry level, this is also a warning around the widespread lack of contingency planning for cloud failures. Reactive response must give way to strategically planned disaster recovery protocols that engender a resilient cloud market.

Scale Chaos Engineering with Automation and AI

Chaos Engineering and Fault Injection testing have been proven to prevent outages, increase availability, and help companies avoid costly downtime. But without the right processes or tools, they require specialized knowledge, a deep understanding of systems, and manual effort for every test. To fully realize the benefits of Chaos Engineering, testing needs to be adopted across all engineering teams without causing a lift or investment that takes away from roadmap progress.

C15 Roadmap & Release 22

We’re excited to launch Release 22—our most advanced update yet. It delivers smarter controls, deeper customization, and long-term reliability. Key improvements include enhanced handling of TTY messages with Wireshark support, flexible call history recording, new Stir/Shaken override options for better traceability, and real-time call limit tracking with an upgraded interface. Plus, starting March 25, 2026, SIP code 603+ will notify callers when calls are blocked due to analytics, in line with FCC regulations.

Data Centre Colocation: What UK Businesses Need to Know About Costs

As more UK companies go digital, many are missing critical cost factors when choosing colocation data centres, with location, power bills and regulatory compliance proving far more expensive than many anticipate. With insights from Pulsant, a digital edge infrastructure provider, we take a look at true cost of colocation.

Kubernetes For AI: The CTO's Guide

Kubernetes began as a tool to help teams keep thousands of microservices running without falling apart. It gave them a way to schedule workloads, recover from failures, and scale services without constant firefighting. Now, AI has brought back the same chaos, only magnified. Training jobs sprawl across GPUs. Inference traffic spikes without warning. Pipelines stretch across clusters, clouds, and compliance boundaries. Left unchecked, it can break both your workload and cloud budget.