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Introducing the "retry" step failure strategy for Bitbucket Pipelines

Recently we introduced support for Failure Strategies, which allows developers to implement more powerful logic and control flow into their workflows. Today, we are excited to announce a new step failure strategy, retry, which can auto-retry your failed steps without requiring any input from the user.

Is It Time to Switch Your Network Monitoring Tool? How to Know & Choose the Right Upgrade

A while ago, your company chose a network monitoring tool that worked perfectly — back when most employees worked in the office, networks were centralized, applications ran on-premise, and "the cloud" was just a buzzword.

Optimizing Item Search: How Rollbar Engineered Faster, More Capable Search

Searching through error data efficiently is critical for developers using monitoring tools. At Rollbar, we recently completed a significant overhaul of our Item Search backend. The previous system faced performance limitations and constraints on search capabilities. This post details the technical challenges, the architectural changes we implemented, and the resulting performance gains.

Ultimate Guide to Server Hardening for Kamal

Server hardening is securing a server by reducing its surface of vulnerability. This means minimizing the number of potential entry points for attackers by disabling unnecessary services, applying patches, and enforcing strong security controls. If you use Kamal to deploy applications but you must harden your servers yourself. This is a guide on the steps to take to have a secure server. The Basics of Server Security: Patch often and restart often. Patching helps with fixing known vulnerabilities.

Coroot v1.9: Kubernetes-Native Database Monitoring Made Easy

From day one, we built Coroot to work beyond just Kubernetes. Many teams still run databases and other stateful services on dedicated VMs or bare-metal servers. But that’s starting to change. More and more teams no longer see Kubernetes as a platform just for stateless apps. Powerful Kubernetes operators now handle day-2 operations like failover, backups, and disaster recovery—making it easier than ever to run databases on Kubernetes. And the number of teams choosing this path keeps growing.

The Shift to Proactive IT Management: How Infraon Leads the Way

For years, businesses relied on a reactive IT management approach, also known as the break-fix model—only addressing problems after they occurred. This method often led to unpredictable downtime, rising costs, and a struggle to scale with growing business needs. Without proactive monitoring, issues could escalate, causing major disruptions.

Finding UX Friction (...Before It Becomes a Problem)

Make it smooth. Reduce friction. Keep users moving. That’s solid advice. No one enjoys filling out a form with 10 unnecessary fields or dealing with a checkout process that feels like a maze. But you can’t fix friction if you don’t know where it’s happening. Big companies like Amazon, Netflix, and Airbnb don’t just guess where users are struggling. They track the right UX metrics, run experiments, and fine-tune their products constantly.

Why Your Remote Meetings Aren't Working (And How To Improve Them)

Remote meetings can be tough to get right. When people are flung across the planet in different time zones and aren't in the same room as each other, coordination becomes annoyingly difficult. Fortunately, there are things you can do about this. Even if remote meetings aren't working for you now, you can quickly turn the situation around. This post looks through some of the problems you might be having with remote meetings first and then runs through a list of solutions you could try to implement. By the end of reading this short article, you should find yourself in a much better position.

How To Improve Your Recruitment Process

In business, it's always going to be important to make sure that you are recruiting the right people at the right time. With that in mind, there is a lot that you will need to think about to ensure that you are going to make this work as well as possible. In this post, we are going to take a look at some of the main ways to improve your recruitment process, so that you should be able to bring in all the best talent whenever you need them. This is really going to make a huge difference overall.