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The holiday shopping rush from Black Friday through the post-season clearance wave brings huge revenue opportunities. The National Retail Federation projects US holiday spending in 2025 to cross $1.01 trillion, a year-on-year rise of 3.7–4.2%. With this kind of volume on the line, the season will test the entire operational backbone behind delivery and monetization. For AdOps and RevOps teams, the year-end surge is no longer a short and predictable window around Thanksgiving.

Eliminate non-coding toil with Qovery’s AI DevOps Agent. Discover how shifting from static automation to specialized DevOps AI agents optimizes FinOps, security, and infrastructure management.

You can instrument Jenkins with OpenTelemetry using the official plugin and an OpenTelemetry Collector, then send the data to a backend like Last9 to understand where pipeline latency and failures actually originate. Jenkins provides job status and console logs, but it doesn't show how time is distributed across stages, agents, plugins, and external systems. OpenTelemetry fills that gap by emitting traces, metrics, and logs in a standard format that any OTLP-compatible backend can process.

In our latest Redgate Flyway Enterprise release, you can store a snapshot directly in the target database, making drift detection and rollback strategies easier and more reliable whether you’re using state-based or migrations-based deployments.

In late 2023, Amazon introduced the ability to deliver AppStream 2.0 using Microsoft Windows Server OS rather than the desktop of the OS. This feature enables IT admins to host multiple end-user sessions on a single AppStream 2.0 instance, helping to make better use of instance resources.

Incidents don’t wait. They hit production, disrupt users, and pull teams into long recovery cycles. And a well-structured incident response team helps you move fast, limit damage, and restore services without chaos. In this blog, we’ll explain what an incident response team is, its key functions, team composition, and different types of teams. Let’s get started!

Incident response teams deal with several challenges. Alert noise, unclear ownership, lack of automation, and more. It’s important to keep an eye on these challenges and resolve them from time to time because they can turn minor issues into major outages. In this blog, we’ll discuss some of the common incident response challenges, how they affect, and how you can resolve them. Let’s dive in!

When the issue settles, and systems are back, one question always remains: What actually happened, and how do we stop it from happening again? That’s where incident postmortems come in. Not just as documentation, but as a structured way to learn, improve reliability, and replace guessing with clarity. A good postmortem isn’t about blame, heroics, or perfect narratives. It’s about truth, learning, and building systems that get stronger with every failure.