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Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we're talking about what it really means to start fresh, stay curious, and make space to be a beginner again—even when your calendar’s packed. If your calendar is crammed with back-to-back meetings, messages that never stop, and deadlines breathing down your neck, you're not alone.

Every connected device, cable, and transmission path contributes to how data flows across an IT environment. These physical and logical arrangements define what is known as topology in a computer network. For IT teams managing increasingly complex infrastructures, understanding how devices are arranged and how they communicate is critical.

Redux remains a cornerstone of React state management, but developers continue to encounter persistent bugs and new challenges. State mutation errors remain the most common Redux bug, affecting over 70% of Redux applications, while new issues emerge with Redux Toolkit 2.0, TypeScript integration, and React 18/19 compatibility. This comprehensive guide explores the most prevalent Redux debugging challenges and provides practical solutions for modern development.

Following the popularity of our existing GitHub integration, we’ve extended similar capabilities to GitLab users. You can now ingest GitLab events directly into Mezmo Telemetry Pipelines and route them to any destination. This provides a powerful new way to monitor, alert, and react to activity within your GitLab repositories.

When launches are delayed or incidents occur, it’s often due to a breakdown in production readiness. Maybe documentation is outdated. Maybe no one’s on-call. Maybe a critical dependency isn’t even known. The truth is, production readiness shouldn’t be a manual checklist. Production readiness needs to be as dynamic as the software being evaluated.