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On March 2, 2026, Claude experienced a widespread service disruption that affected users across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The outage quickly drew significant media attention, with numerous technology news outlets reporting on user frustration and downtime. In the early hours of the incident, some commentators speculated that the disruption may have been caused by a sudden influx of new users migrating from OpenAI. However, there is no public evidence confirming that theory.

February brought powerful new improvements to StatusGator – from better status page analytics and expanded API capabilities to smarter incident detection. We also published our latest Early Warning Signals report, highlighting major outages we detected before providers acknowledged them. Here’s everything that’s new.

Enterprise Spring Boot APIs should be tested at three levels: unit tests for business logic, integration tests for external service behavior, and traffic replay for production edge cases. Most teams only do the first. This guide shows all three using a real Spring Boot application that calls external APIs (SpaceX, US Treasury) with JWT authentication. The kind of service that looks simple in development and breaks in production.

Production bugs that only reproduce in actual traffic can be some of the most frustrating bugs in software development. You can stare at your logs, add traces to your code, add instrumentation – and still not be able to see the actual requests that went over the wire. And that gets even harder when the requests are encrypted and the system is a black box. You can use tools like Wireshark or Kubeshark to capture the requests.

Updated March 03, 2026 One of the things that keep online shop owners awake at night is – will my website withstand the Black Friday traffic? As this is one of the most important days of the year, a downtime of even a few minutes can translate into thousands of dollars in losses. This is why we’ve decided to come to your aid with a hands-on article where we discuss the most common Black Friday problems eCommerce websites should avoid, and how you can avoid them.

The “agent vs agentless” debate usually comes up when teams are trying to choose an infrastructure automation approach that will not compromise security, compliance, or impact day-to-day operations. You need to manage a hybrid estate, avoid creating more work for already stretched teams, and ideally do it without stitching together multiple tools. That pressure often turns the conversation into a binary choice: which approach is better?

Welcome to Beyond the horizon, a monthly series celebrating the people who shape Upsun’s culture, innovation, and heart. In this month’s edition, we’re featuring Ana Cidre, Director of Developer Advocacy at Upsun and one of the key voices shaping how developers experience our platform today and in the future.