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Point of Sale (POS) systems are the backbone of any retail store. A single outage can cost retail companies thousands of dollars each minute in lost sales, and even more if the outage happens during peak hours. If the outage goes on too long, it can cause even more costly damage as customers abandon carts and turn to competitors. In an industry where customer loyalty is worth its weight in gold, that brand damage can end up even more costly than the initial lost sales.

With the first major release of the Sentry Unreal SDK (now on v1.2.0, and you can also explore in our interactive sandbox), we’ve made some important improvements to support cross-platform Unreal developers when it comes to platform coverage, debugging with user feedback, and performance monitoring improvements. Here’s what’s new.

Early on October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a significant outage affecting its US-EAST-1 region in northern Virginia. The root cause was DNS resolution failures for DynamoDB’s API endpoints, which cascaded across AWS’s interconnected services.

Find a balance of speed, teamwork, and learning to turn outages into resilience.

Generated columns have existed in PostgreSQL since version 12. The idea was to allow people to make calculations based on other columns in the table and store them. It makes your life easier by ensuring data accuracy and preventing unauthorized manual modifications. But why, after 6 versions, is PostgreSQL making generated columns virtual and also making this new way the default? This is an example of the types of questions we had when exploring and playing around with this new feature.

HAProxy Enterprise 3.2 is a pivotal release that reinforces the product’s identity as both the world’s fastest software load balancer and a sophisticated edge security layer. This release brings next-generation security intelligence, extends its industry-leading performance, and expands the native routing and integration capabilities in HAProxy Enterprise.

Wouldn’t it be great if every vulnerability had a fix waiting in the wings? If patching were always fast, easy, and complete? That’s not the world we live in. Some vulnerabilities can’t be patched at all. Others are buried in systems or services you don’t fully control. And the longer your focus stays limited to internal infrastructure, the more risk slips through the cracks.

We All Have That One Secret… That API key that has been sitting in production for ages. The personal access token that was supposed to be rotated 2 months ago. The service key that is about to expire… wait, when does it expire again? Most developers have experienced working with secrets. We create secrets, use them, and promise ourselves that we will rotate them. But somehow, the secret that was supposed to be rotated after 90 days is still standing strong after 6 months. Sounds familiar?