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How to Fix On-Call Burnout Before It Breaks Your Team

Aug 5, 2026 By Falit Jain In Pagerly
On-call burnout is no longer a fringe complaint. It is one of the loudest signals in the 2026 reliability data. A wave of fresh industry research this year points to the same uncomfortable conclusion: the people who keep systems running are running on empty. In the DuploCloud 2026 AI and DevOps Report, 47 percent of engineers said DevOps overload contributes to burnout, with on-call rotations and repetitive maintenance singled out as primary culprits.
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Building a Modern Cloud Outage Response Workflow in Slack and Microsoft Teams

Building a Modern Cloud Outage Response Workflow in Slack and Microsoft Teams

Aug 4, 2026 By StatusGator In StatusGator
On May 7 and 8, 2026, a thermal event in a single AWS data center hall knocked out power to EC2 instances and EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone in us-east-1. Within hours, more than 150 cloud services went down, including Coinbase, Reddit, HubSpot, and Atlassian's suite of tools, Jira, Confluence, and Trello among them. For teams without a structured cloud outage response workflow, the next several hours looked familiar: Slack DMs asking "is it down for you too?", tab-switching between status pages, and incident commanders repeating the same update in three different channels.
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motadata

What Is the MITRE ATT&CK Framework? A Guide for IT Ops Teams

Aug 4, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
Most IT operations teams cannot say how much of the MITRE ATT&CK framework they already cover. The framework gets explained in the language of threat hunting and red teams. The parts that belong to infrastructure work are easy to miss. And then, coverage questions get answered with a guess. The mismatch costs time on both sides. Security asks for a coverage answer that ops has no clean way to produce. Yet the controls that stop a large share of those techniques already sit with your team.
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Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing: Differences, Cadence, and Cost

Aug 4, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
What do you say when an auditor asks for evidence that your security controls hold, and all you can produce is a scan report from last month? A scan lists weaknesses. It says nothing about whether an attacker could chain three of them together and reach the customer database. Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing answer two different questions about the same environment. The first asks what is exposed right now. The second asks what someone with intent and skill could do with that exposure.
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Azure Virtual Desktop Monitoring: Challenges, Metrics & Best Monitoring Solutions

Aug 4, 2026 By Venkat Narayanan In eG Innovations
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is rapidly growing in popularity as modern way to deliver virtual desktops and apps to users, with Azure providing the infrastructure as alternative to on-prem VDI environments. As organizations expand their use of AVD in Azure, monitoring becomes critical.
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harness

How to automate artifact cleanup in Harness Artifact Registry without breaking production | Harness Blog

Aug 4, 2026 By Shibam Dhar In Harness
AI is changing artifact management in two ways at once. Every AI-generated pull request, dependency update, and automated build creates more container images, packages, and Helm charts than ever before. Registries are growing faster than engineering teams can manage them, driving up storage costs and leaving thousands of stale artifacts behind. At the same time, the cost of deleting the wrong artifact has never been higher.
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Why Cloud Cost Visibility at Scale Fails (And How to Fix It) | Harness Blog

Aug 4, 2026 By Kelsey Rosen In Harness
Cloud cost visibility at scale usually works great… until it suddenly doesn’t. At first, everything feels manageable. You can track spend by service. You know which team owns which resources. Reports are clean, and the numbers make sense. Then one day, there’s a $47,000 spike spread across three AWS accounts that no one noticed for eleven days. Leadership wants answers. Engineering wants context. And your carefully designed tagging strategy?
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honeycomb

AMA Recap: More Answers From the Observability Engineering Authors

Aug 4, 2026 By Rox Williams In Honeycomb
Last week, we sat down with the authors of Observability Engineering for a live AMA. We ended up getting so many questions (pre-submitted and live) that we couldn't get through them all. Charity, Liz, George, and Austin kindly stuck around afterward to answer more, ranging from low-hanging observability fruits and telemetry to AI and what software engineers can do that Claude can't. Missed the live session? Watch it on demand now.
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splunk

From Vision to Value: New Splunk Platform Innovations Supporting Cisco Data Fabric Are Generally Available

Aug 4, 2026 By Mangesh Pimpalkhare In Splunk
At.conf25, we announced our vision for Cisco Data Fabric, an architecture designed to help organizations unlock the value of machine data, fuel AI with trusted context, and support more intelligent and resilient operations. Today, that vision has become reality. Key Splunk Platform innovations including Machine Data Lake, Catalog, and Agent Launchpad, together with expanded Federated Search and Data Management capabilities, are now generally available.
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