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Top Continuous Integration Metrics Every Platform Engineering Leader Should Track | Harness Blog

Feb 11, 2026 By Chinmay Gaikwad In Harness
Track build duration, queue time, success rate, and cost per build to directly improve developer productivity, control costs, and enhance delivery reliability. Standardize pipeline metadata and automate metric collection to turn raw CI data into actionable insights across teams, services, and cost centers. Pair metrics with intelligent caching, optimized testing, and build acceleration to reduce build times and operational costs while maintaining security standards.
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Unit Testing in CI/CD: How to Accelerate Builds Without Sacrificing Quality | Harness Blog

Feb 11, 2026 By Chinmay Gaikwad In Harness
Smart test selection, parallel test runs, and intelligent caching can all speed up builds without sacrificing code quality. Fast, focused, and separate unit tests are very important for quick development. They give you feedback right away and make it easier to refactor with confidence. Unit tests are a quick and cheap way to find logic errors, but they can't check how different parts work together. For full coverage, use them with integration tests and end-to-end tests.
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Densify

When ConfigMaps Hit Limits: Migrating to CRDs

Feb 11, 2026 By Kubex In Densify
Over the past few years, Kubex has evolved from a cloud optimization product into a Kubernetes-centric solution, shifting its focus from cost and waste visibility to fully automated resource optimization. As that evolution happened, one of the earliest design decisions we had made began to show its limits: how the product was configured.
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grafana

How to run checks on internal services with Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring

Feb 11, 2026 By Bukola Ayodele In Grafana
Many critical services run inside private networks, where traditional monitoring tools and practices can’t offer full visibility. This makes it difficult to validate service availability and performance before problems impact your users. Synthetic Monitoring — a Grafana Cloud solution that helps you proactively monitor the performance of your applications and services — addresses this gap with a feature known as private probes.
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VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics at FOSDEM, Cloud Native Days France, and CfgMgmtCamp Ghent

Feb 11, 2026 By Diana Todea In VictoriaMetrics
Last week, members of the VictoriaMetrics team, including myself, spoke at three very different but equally important community events: FOSDEM in Brussels, Cloud Native Days France in Paris, and CfgMgmtCamp in Ghent. Each event drew a different crowd with its own expectations, making them a good way to see where open source observability stands today and how VictoriaMetrics is adapting to real-world needs. The talks we gave were snapshots of the problems we are actively working on.
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statuspal

The Future of StatusPal: Classic and Next

Feb 11, 2026 By Eduardo Messuti In Statuspal
Over the past years, StatusPal has been the product teams rely on to communicate clearly during incidents and maintenance. It’s the product our customers use today, and it remains central to how we support critical communication. We want to share how we’re thinking about the future of StatusPal, what this means for the product you’re using today, and how a newer version we’re building fits into the picture.
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Kubernetes Network Observability: Comparing Calico, Cilium, Retina, and Netobserv

Feb 11, 2026 By Reza Ramezanpour In Tigera
Calico, Cilium, Retina, and Netobserv: Which Observability Tool is Right for Your Kubernetes Cluster? Network observability is a tale as old as the OSI model itself and anyone who has managed a network or even a Kubernetes cluster knows the feeling: a service suddenly can’t reach its dependency, a pod is mysteriously offline, and the Slack alerts start rolling in. Investigating network connectivity issues in these complex, distributed environments can be incredibly time consuming.
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3D Printing Explained: Essential Guide for Businesses in 2026

3D Printing Explained: Essential Guide for Businesses in 2026

Feb 11, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Most business owners have seen 3D printing - usually in some video where a machine slowly builds a plastic toy. That's where a lot of people stop paying attention. They think it's just for prototypes or hobbyist stuff. But companies are using this to fix real problems now. The expensive kind. Custom parts that used to take weeks? You might have them tomorrow. Want to test five different designs before committing? Make them all this week. Those months-long lead times? Not always necessary anymore.
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Is a College Degree Still Worth It for Learning IoT and Emerging Technologies

Is a College Degree Still Worth It for Learning IoT and Emerging Technologies

Feb 11, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Figuring out whether a college degree is still the smartest path for learning IoT and other fast moving tech fields can feel overwhelming. Bootcamps, online courses, and self guided learning seem to pop up everywhere, promising quicker paths into the workforce. At the same time, traditional universities continue to update their programs to keep pace with connected devices, AI, and automation. The truth sits somewhere in the middle. A degree is still valuable, but the reasons why have shifted.
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