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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 Maybe documentation is outdated.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.

Kubernetes provides a wealth of telemetry data from container metrics and application traces to cluster events and logs. OpenTelemetry offers a vendor-neutral, end-to-end solution for collecting and exporting this telemetry in a standardised format.

Keeping track of every computer in your organization can quickly turn into a messy task, especially as your team grows or hardware gets moved around. That’s where computer inventory software comes in. These tools help IT teams stay on top of their assets, streamline maintenance, and prevent costly surprises. In this guide, we’ll break down what computer inventory actually means, what computer inventory software does, and how to choose the right tool for your needs.

As organizations migrate their legacy web applications from containerized or server-based deployments to serverless environments, they often run into a critical compatibility challenge. Traditional web frameworks like Flask, Express, or SpringBoot are designed to run on persistent HTTP servers, not event-driven, stateless environments like AWS Lambda. The AWS Lambda Web Adapter bridges this gap by allowing teams to run web server-based applications inside Lambda with minimal changes.

When something goes wrong in a client’s infrastructure, MSPs are expected to fix it—fast. But there’s one area most teams still overlook, and it’s often the first point of failure: DNS. Misconfigured DNS doesn’t always break things immediately. It’s subtle. It lingers. And when it finally causes an outage, broken email, or a security issue, it’s often too late. Here are the DNS misconfigurations MSPs can’t afford to ignore—and what to do about them.

If your team runs on AWS, getting new tools into your workflow isn’t just about functionality. It’s about how quickly you can procure, integrate, and see value. With Checkly now available on AWS Marketplace, monitoring doesn’t have to be an exception. This launch means Checkly fits into your procurement flow the same way it fits into your CI/CD: seamlessly. No vendor approval bottlenecks, no procurement delays, just faster access to the tools your developers already want to use.