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Maximizing Patch Deployment with Ring Strategies Ring deployment enhances automation for patch management by allowing control over individual testing and production rings. Engaging end users is essential to evaluate the impact of patches after the initial deployment. While patches may lead to immediate failures or delayed issues, user feedback is often overlooked. This feedback is vital for deciding whether to proceed to the next deployment ring, focusing on balancing security and productivity.

Now in research preview: Netdata Insights The problem: Incident? You're jumping between dashboards, piecing together timelines. Reporting? You're copy-pasting charts and correlating trends by hand. The data’s there, but turning it into a narrative doesn’t scale. The solution: Netdata Insights. Synthesizes our high-fidelity telemetry using the latest LLMs into AI-powered reports with natural-language explanations, visuals, and clear recommendations.

Global Locations and Scheduling Strategies with Checkly: https://www.checklyhq.com/docs/monitoring/global-locations/

🐧🐝 Try Coroot fully open source or Enterprise and check out the latest open source observability tips on our blog: https://t.ly/qBH9f

Handing the keys to multiple IT teams doesn’t have to invite RBAC chaos. In this quick-strike session we’ll show you how to carve out precise roles in NinjaOne, keep permission creep on a tight leash, and spin up a co-managed setup that’s accessible but secure — without adding a new manual headache to your week. Bring your access questions; leave with a ninja-sharp checklist.

We strongly believe that simple observability should be an innovation everyone can afford to benefit from: which is why Coroot is open source, and includes cost monitoring for Azure, GCP, AWS, or your own custom settings. eBPF automatically tracks how each deployment impacts your cloud costs, so you can easily roll back changes and avoid lovecraftian monthly bill when necessary.

Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Do you know if your services can tolerate losing a node? What about an entire availability zone? Or a region? Large-scale outages aren’t unheard of. When you’re running critical services, it’s vital that those services can keep running even if an AZ or region fails. In addition to failing over, these services also need to scale quickly so traffic shifts don’t overwhelm your systems. How do you prove that a service is both scalable and redundant? The answer is with Fault Injection.

When you run critical IT or Security systems, you're on the hook if an alert is missed or a pipeline drops data. That is why Cribl Copilot never tries to replace you. Instead, it works as a partner you can question, guide, and overrule. Join us for this overview of Cribl Copilot!

Martin opens up about leaving full-time roles for the flexibility of freelancing. He shares how long-term projects, strong networks, and a bit of boredom drove the shift.

Episode 004: In this episode of DevEx Unpacked, Alan Carson chats with Jack Spargo, CTO of Control Alt, about his fascinating career journey from aerospace engineering to leading blockchain-powered investment platforms. Jack shares lessons from being acquired overnight, the challenges of building a platform from scratch, and why he’s betting big on junior engineers and AI augmentation. They explore the realities of compliance, software supply chain security, and why Northern Ireland is fast becoming a serious start-up hub.