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Introducing Braintrust

How do you balance speed and quality when your customers are counting on you? What does it actually take to build a culture of reliability? And how should engineering leaders think about AI when it's changing everything about how we ship software? On Braintrust, Ganesh Datta, CTO and Co-founder of Cortex, sits down with CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and technical leaders who've been in the trenches—the ones who've made the hard calls, shipped through the chaos, and built teams that actually work.

The Load Testing Start Guide! #speedscale #stresstest #loadtesting #mocking #startup

Are you ready to get serious about load and stress testing, but don't know where to start? This guide highlights the trap most serious engineers fall into: trying to build a custom DIY testing environment. The traditional path means signing your team up for maintaining load drivers, test case frameworks, ephemeral environments, and endless custom mocks a massive drain on time and resources. There's a better, cheaper, and faster solution: Traffic Replay.

Manage your Pipelines usage with the new billing panel

Until recently, the Pipelines Billing Panel has only displayed the total pipeline minutes used across your workspace. You didn’t have visibility into how usage was distributed across your repositories. We’ve now enhanced the billing panel to show you build minute usage by repository for the current and previous billing periods so you can identify and manage high-usage repositories.

From KubeCon EU to KubeCon NA: Bindplane's OpenTelemetry Contributions and Highlights (Mar-Oct 2025)

Bindplane engineers have stayed deeply involved in the OpenTelemetry community this summer. With KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta coming up I wanted to dive into all the work that has been done and give the engineers a well deserved shoutout. Here’s what we built, fixed, and contributed since KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe in London this March.

Vulnerability Prioritization: The Complete Guide

With thousands of vulnerabilities discovered every year, not all pose the same risk. Some can cripple critical systems, while others have little real-world impact. The key is knowing which threats to act on first. Vulnerability prioritization helps security teams cut through the noise, focus on what truly matters and build resilience against critical attacks.

Don't Fear the Ticket Reaper: How IT Service Desk Automation Slays Everyday Monsters

Here there be cybersecurity monsters. But there don’t have to be. The scariest creatures aren’t in haunted houses or slasher films. They’re in your IT environment, lurking in queues, clogging inboxes, haunting your service desk. We’re talking, of course, about tickets. Every IT leader knows the horror movie I’m referring to: endless tickets piling up and making even the simplest requests a real slog.

Decoding cloud credits: Are "free" credits locking you in?

“Free" cloud credits, they sound like a gift, but they often come with hidden costs and an agenda: lock-in. The illusion of a cost-saving measure can quickly become a vendor-specific trap, forcing costly migrations or leaving your business overpaying for cloud services. This issue, which the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) estimates contributes to £430M of annual over-payments in the UK alone, is what we call the "cloud credit trap.".

From Logs to Insights: Observability with ClickHouse

Watch this session to learn why ClickHouse is a natural fit for observability pipelines and log analytics platforms. Includes a demo of Aiven for ClickHouse service. Relevant for DevOps and Platform Engineers, SREs and Observability/Monitoring Leads AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.

Introducing the Splunk Technology Add-on for Ollama: Illuminating Shadow AI Deployments

Without strong visibility and governance, local LLMs risk replicating the fragmented, unsupervised sprawl once seen in shadow IT, complicating security postures and making it difficult for organizations to ensure proper oversight and compliance as these powerful AI tools become embedded in daily workflows. To address this challenge, The Splunk Threat Research Team has released the Splunk Technology Add-on for Ollama that provides comprehensive monitoring and observability capabilities specifically designed for local LLM deployments.