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Introducing CertKit: SSL Certificate Automation for the Rest of Us

We’ve been quietly solving a problem that most teams haven’t hit yet, but they’re about to. SSL certificate lifetimes are dropping to 47 days. If you’re managing certificates manually today, you have a very short window before that becomes a real operational problem. We know, because it happened to us first.

Progress WhatsUp Gold 2026.0: Proactive Visibility. Trusted Security.

Announcing Progress WhatsUp Gold 2026.0 Modern networks are more complex and more exposed than ever. From hybrid infrastructure and distributed devices to expiring certificates and tightened security requirements, network and IT teams are under constant pressure to keep everything running smoothly while reducing risk. Progress WhatsUp Gold 2026.0 is built for that reality.

The Atlassian Rovo MCP Server now supports Bitbucket Cloud

The Atlassian Rovo Model Context Protocol MCP Server now supports Bitbucket Cloud. AI clients like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and VS Code can now browse repositories, create commits, open pull requests, and check pipeline results, all through the same secure MCP connection that already works with Jira and Confluence.

How to Build a Developer Self-Service Platform That Actually Works | Harness Blog

Your developers are buried under tickets for environments, pipelines, and infra tweaks, while a small platform team tries to keep up. That is not developer self-service. That is managed frustration. If 200 developers depend on five platform engineers for every change, you do not have a platform; you have a bottleneck. Velocity drops, burnout rises, and shadow tooling appears. Developer self-service fixes this, but only when it is treated as a product, not a portal skin.

How to Implement Self-Service Infrastructure Without Losing Control | Harness Blog

Self-service infrastructure replaces ticket queues with controlled, automated workflows so developers can get what they need safely and on demand. Policy-as-code, standardized templates, and an Internal Developer Portal (IDP) provide guardrails that maintain security, compliance, and cost control. You can demonstrate ROI in 90 days by starting with a single golden path and measuring adoption, speed, and policy outcomes. If platform teams are buried in tickets, they are not operating a control plane.

The Art of Scaling: How to Determine the Right Number of Apache Kafka Partitions

Apache Kafka partition count isn't just a number—it defines parallelism, ordering, and operational complexity. Learn the formula to balance throughput requirements with maintenance costs, avoid common anti-patterns, and find your 'Goldilocks' number for production-ready performance.