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The $600 billion wake-up call: New Splunk research reveals downtime is a systemic business crisis

600 billion annual impact: Aggregate downtime costs for the Global 2000 have soared 50% in two years. $15,000 per minute: The average cost of downtime for organisations, highlighting the immediate financial impact of service disruptions. 3.4% stock price drop: The average decline in shareholder value following a single downtime incident.

Honeycomb Achieves the AWS Financial Services Competency

Honeycomb is proud to share that we have achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Financial Services Competency. This recognition validates our technical expertise and proven customer success in assisting financial services organizations with building, running, and understanding their production systems on AWS. Securing this competency is a direct response to our customers’ feedback in this space: observability in regulated, high-stakes environments requires more than dashboards and alerts.

What's New in Calico v3.32

We’re excited to announce the release of Calico Open Source v3.32! This release corresponds with Kubernetes v1.36 (Codename Haru) and it goes beyond just sharing a cat as the mascot of the release, it actually extends capabilities and features of Kubernetes to keep you up to date with the latest innovations of the cloud. This release brings some of the most significant architectural changes in Calico, from live-migrating KubeVirt VMs to eBPF based Maglev load balancer.

PagerDuty Appoints John DiLullo as Chief Executive Officer

Jennifer Tejada Transitions to Executive Chair of Board of Directors After Serving as CEO Since 2016. John DiLullo Brings Deep Enterprise, Product and Go-to-Market Leadership Experience to Lead Next Phase of Growth. Company Reaffirms First Quarter and Full Fiscal Year 2027 Guidance.

AI-assisted testing, extensions updates, and more: k6 2.0 is here

For years, teams have relied on k6 to take a more proactive approach to performance testing, ensuring they can catch issues early and deliver more reliable user experiences. That approach has helped make k6 one of the most widely used performance testing tools in the open source community today, with more than 30k stars on GitHub. Last year, we introduced k6 1.0, a major release that brought TypeScript support, native extensions, revamped test insights, and production-grade stability guarantees.

What's New in dbForge 2026.1: Greater Convenience, Enhanced Code Completion, and a Big Update of dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL

The time has come to announce the release of dbForge 2026.1, a grand update that brings a variety of new features and long-anticipated enhancements to the entire dbForge ecosystem. As usual, the update will cover all database systems that dbForge is compatible with, but this time, there will be a special focus on PostgreSQL and related databases and cloud services, whose users will be witnessing a major step forward, with multiple new features, options, and whatnot.

Avantra 26: A Breath of Fresh Multi-Tenant AIR

There’s a crackle and spark in the air at Avantra lately, and I’m so pleased to be writing this bit on what we’ve accomplished with the Avantra 26 release. Automated root cause analysis, multi-tenant management support for Cloud ALM, enhanced security operations and financial operations monitoring BTP – it’s all there, and more. It’s an exciting and innovative release for Avantra!