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When a huge cloud platform migration stalls out mid-flight with no hope of changing course, panic lunges to take the wheel. In this episode, Mahesh Guruswamy, CTO at Kickstarter and author of How to Deliver Bad News and Get Away with It, recounts the night he took down production and had no other choice but to push through. Tune in for the blow-by-blow — from anxiously watching the clock as queries time-out to the tightrope walk of breaking bad news without breaking trust. You'll leave with the brutally simple playbook Mahesh now swears by to make sure your next migration doesn’t become an IT horror sequel.

In this episode, hosts Sean Sebring and Chrystal Taylor engage with actual rock star Chris Greer, a Security Engineering Manager at SolarWinds, to explore the multifaceted world of cybersecurity. Chris shares his unconventional journey from being a musician to entering the IT field, emphasizing the importance of certifications and the mindset shift required when transitioning from IT operations to security.

At the 2025 DASH Keynote and be the first to experience Datadog's latest product innovations. This year, we're unveiling next-generation observability features, innovative ways to secure your AI workloads, and powerful agentic AI capabilities throughout the Datadog platform. Discover the new ways your teams can observe, secure, and act in the age of AI.

Join Itiel as he chats with Gianluca Mardente, a Principal Engineer at Cisco Systems. Gianluca shares his path to tech and Kubernetes, including his work history and the inspiration behind his open-source project, Sveltos. They dive into the significant challenges of managing a large fleet of Kubernetes clusters – ensuring consistency, handling upgrades, and coordinating resources across different clusters.

Episode 001: In this inaugural episode of DevEx Unpacked, host Alan Carson sits down with Alison Sickelka, VP of Product at Cloudsmith, for a deep dive into the evolution of software supply chain security. Alison shares her journey from journalism to product leadership, the unique talent landscape in Belfast, and how Cloudsmith is pioneering secure artifact management. Learn how Cloudsmith's Enterprise Policy Management is shaping compliance strategies, why SBOMs are crucial, and where AI fits in a secure DevOps future.

There's a lot more context to an error than the message blinking in red on your screen. Seer understands the context of your application and everything behind that error. Seer collects information from the Stack Trace, Logs, Traces and Spans, Profiles, and the code from your GitHub repo and uses it to understand what's causing your issues, and propose fixes.

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A slow-loading website is costly. Just a few extra seconds can drive users away and increase bounce rates. In this video, we’ll walk you through seven proven techniques to improve your website’s load speed.