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Fleet Monitoring with Netdata

Modern infrastructure doesn't only live in data centers anymore. It's in retail stores, factory floors, vehicles, cell sites, kiosks, and robots, thousands of nodes across hundreds of locations, connected over links you don't control, in places your team can't easily reach. Traditional observability wasn't built for this. Centralizing every metric from every device gets expensive fast, degrades over constrained links, and goes blind exactly when a remote node needs attention most. In this webinar, we'll show how Netdata inverts the model by putting intelligence at the edge.

Integrating Virtual Identity Systems into Modern DevOps and CI/CD Workflows

Modern IT service management and cloud operations rely heavily on automated identity validation, multi-factor authentication (MFA) testing, and isolated staging environments. Deploying cloud infrastructure at scale requires continuous verification without linking critical operational workflows to physical mobile hardware. DevOps engineers building automated alert pipelines or synthetic monitoring suites often implement a dedicated virtual number to receive SMS payloads, isolate production keys, and validate two-factor authentication endpoints programmatically.

Break One Dependency, Not The Whole Cluster

Scoped chaos rules are now in proxymock. A filter query picks the traffic, an effect perturbs it, and every response that gets touched is labelled so you can tell an injected failure from a real one for the rest of the run. Available in v2.5.892 and newer. The short version of why: kill a pod and you learn something real, but you do not learn what your service does when a dependency stays up and starts lying to it.

Application Level Dependency Chaos Testing

Somewhere in your service is a branch that has never executed. Not a rare one, a never one. It handles a dependency being unavailable: it reads from a cache, it returns a stale value, it marks the response degraded so callers know not to trust it too far. It was written carefully. It was reviewed. Whether it works is an open question, because nothing in the test suite makes that dependency fail, and the dependency does not fail on request.

Exploring Cron Function Containers

Function containers on Cycle have always been the efficient way to run batch jobs and workloads, with far more customization than traditional FaaS or serverless. What they couldn't do was run themselves. Over the past year, team after team told us the same thing: they wanted these functions on a schedule without standing up and babysitting a cron service. As of this release, Cycle fully supports CRON scheduled function containers.

The 12 Tools I Actually Use to Automate Kubernetes Deployments (2026)

A practitioner's category-by-category breakdown of the best tools for automating Kubernetes deployments in 2026 - Argo CD, Flux CD, Helm, Kustomize, KEDA, Kyverno, OPA Gatekeeper, Karpenter, Cluster Autoscaler, Rancher, Portainer, Terraform and Crossplane - plus which 3 to 5 you actually need, and how a platform like Qovery automates the whole chain from cluster creation to upgrades in under 15 minutes. Romaric founded Qovery to make Kubernetes accessible to every engineering team.

Akamai Cloud Partners with Control Plane to Leverage Universal Cloud Identity

Control Plane is now a technology partner of Akamai Cloud. You can add regions from Akamai Cloud to your Global Virtual Cloud in Control Plane. And by leveraging Control Plane’s Universal Cloud Identity, workloads running on Akamai Cloud regions can still consume any service of AWS, GCP, or Azure with no credentials embedded in the workload.

Back-to-school demand, handled: AI-powered capacity planning in one cloud DCIM

When back-to-school demand shifts overnight, your team can’t afford to chase answers across scattered spreadsheets and tools. You need a clear picture of available capacity, constraints, and priorities—all in one place. Hyperview’s cloud-based DCIM offers AI-powered capacity planning software that puts real-time capacity insights on a single dashboard, so you can act quickly and confidently as seasonal demand ramps up.

6 Things to Know Before Choosing an SEI Platform in 2026

Choosing a software engineering intelligence platform is one of those decisions that gets more complicated the longer you wait. The category has grown rapidly, and every vendor claims to track the metrics that matter. GitKraken Insights gives you a full-stack view of engineering performance, from DORA metrics to AI tool ROI, in a platform trusted by over 40 million developers. But it isn’t the only option on the market.