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GitKraken Desktop 11.10 Release: Pin Branch, Sparse Checkout, Word Wrap and MORE!
GitKraken Desktop 11.10 is live! This release focuses on control over the commit graph, rebases, and more. The kind that makes working in complex repositories feel intentional instead of chaotic. Here’s what’s new: These updates bring long requested structural improvements directly into the GitKraken Desktop UI. If you care about clean history, readable diffs, and managing serious repos without jumping to the CLI, this release is for you.
CloudZero Launches Claude Code Plugin To Bring Cost Intelligence Into Engineering Workflows
Today we’re announcing the CloudZero Claude Code Plugin, a new capability that puts CloudZero’s full cost intelligence model directly inside Claude Code, where engineers and technical FinOps practitioners already work. The plugin connects a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and nine pre-packaged investigation skills to CloudZero’s cost data, covering cloud and AI spend across AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake, MongoDB, OpenAI, Anthropic, and more.
Why Website Change Monitoring Matters for Modern Brand Management
A competitor quietly slashes their prices, and the sales team doesn’t find out until deals start falling through. A rogue plugin update changes the homepage headline to something nobody approved. These scenarios play out constantly for brands without visibility into what’s happening on their own websites and their competitors’ sites. Website change monitoring provides that visibility through automated tracking and alerts, turning potential blind spots into strategic advantages.
Introducing Cortex as the Engineering Operations Platform
Software Engineering is once again being forced to evolve. We are entering the era of infinite code where the cost of writing code tends to zero. The data tells us that companies are only moving 20% faster than when humans wrote code by hand. We’re writing orders of magnitude more code than ever, yet our processes are barely keeping up with what we had before. The chaos and complexity is only being amplified by this new shift in how we work as developers.
Dropbox Ingests 5GB-6GB of Logs per Second Using Loki. Here's How | Grafana Everywhere
As part of the Grafana Everywhere series, Chris Hodges from Dropbox shares why they chose Loki for their logging stack after their data center went dark.
Saved queries now support template variables | Grafana Cloud
In this video, Collin Fingar, Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, demonstrates how template variables can be used in saved queries, a feature that enables users to reuse queries they or others in their org have saved. You'll see how a query that contains variables can be reused, and how the variables can be replaced at the point of reuse.
OnlineOrNot updates from February 2026
February was all about making OnlineOrNot better for dev teams. I shipped audit logs for teams, added support for two-factor authentication and passkeys, unified the webhooks system across uptime checks, heartbeats, and status pages, and made it possible to connect multiple Discord channels.
How to Achieve Data Sovereignty in Europe
European organizations are facing growing data sovereignty demands. Discover options, benefits, and best practices for keeping your data local. Across Europe, organizations are rethinking how they manage their data. The reasons for this push are multi-layered. The U.S. Government’s approach to data privacy often contrasts with Europe’s generally tighter regulations – but recent geopolitical and regulatory shifts in the U.S.