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control plane

Top 10 Heroku Alternatives

Sep 7, 2026 By Nathan McNeill In Control Plane
Heroku is not shutting down. On February 6, 2026, Heroku CPO Nitin T Bhat announced that the platform was moving to a sustaining engineering model: new feature development has stopped, but Heroku remains actively supported and production-ready. There is no announced EOL date or migration deadline, existing apps can keep running, credit-card customers can continue using the service, and existing Enterprise customers can renew. What changed is the roadmap, not immediate availability.
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squared up

I use Claude every day. I still build dashboards in SquaredUp

Sep 7, 2026 By Blog In Squared Up
If you've looked at SquaredUp and thought "I don't need this, I'll just use Claude", I understand completely. I've thought it too. Here's what changed my mind. I use Claude constantly. I've also spent the last few months building the parts of SquaredUp that let it in: our MCP server, the object graph and correlation, a stack of plugins. So this isn't a dashboard vendor being sniffy about AI. I've watched Claude pull from several sources and produce something genuinely useful in under a minute.
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motadata

Log Filtering: How to Cut Log Ingest Volume Without Losing Evidence

Sep 7, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
Every log estate reaches a point where volume grows faster than the value inside it. The usual response is to find the biggest source and drop it. Cutting volume is the easy part. Cutting the right half takes judgment. Log filtering is only one of four options for an expensive source, and the other three matter just as much. In this blog, you will: By the end you can defend every rule you write, including the ones that keep data. A volume cut fails in two directions.
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motadata

ITSM for Healthcare: IT Service Management in Hospitals and Health Systems

Sep 7, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
How long does a nurse stand at a workstation waiting for a record to load before the ward gives up and reaches for paper? In most hospitals nobody measures that number, and the ticket that reaches IT describes a symptom instead of a cause. Hospital IT support runs on a different clock from corporate IT. There is no quiet Sunday night and no safe window for maintenance.
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honeycomb

Relational Query Superpowers

Sep 7, 2026 By Ken Rimple In Honeycomb
I'm investigating repeated errors in my e-commerce application, and I need to get enough context in a single Honeycomb query to piece the entire picture together. Each query returns events based on the event's WHERE clauses, but I want to know several things from outside of the event that recorded an error. Things like: Those attributes are all over the trace. That's going to make a single query tough, right? Wrong!
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VictoriaMetrics

Two cats, two dogs, four vendors, and the model the AI couldn't find (Tech Talk Companion)

Sep 7, 2026 By Michelle Sebek In VictoriaMetrics
Tech Talks went dark for a few months, and on episode 13 I finally got to ask why. Mathias Palmersheim’s answer, delivered completely straight, was that his users were unhappy with the availability and usability of their feeders and their litter box, and he wasn’t allowed back on stream until that got fixed. The users are two dogs and two cats, and they have titles. Maisie, a Shiba Inu who came to him through a rescue, is the recently promoted chief executive pawofficer.
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upsun

Data residency in 2026: what regulators now expect from your cloud, and how to prove it

Sep 7, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
Ask a compliance team where their EU customer data lives, and most will point confidently at a dashboard showing a Frankfurt or Dublin region. Ask their legal counsel whether that data is beyond the reach of a foreign government demand, and the confidence usually drops. Those are two different questions. Since 12 September 2025 there has been a dated EU obligation that turns on the second one rather than the first.
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Container hardening isn't a substitute for artifact management

Sep 7, 2026 By Cloudsmith In Cloudsmith
Hardened base images are a great secure foundation. They're minimal, security-vetted, and have few dependencies to worry about. But almost nobody ships a bare base image. Teams build on top of it. This video cover whys that "on top of it" layer is where the risk actually lives: Skip the base image hardening and you're building on a shaky foundation. Skip artifact management and you're leaving everything built on top of that foundation ungoverned. A strong posture uses both.
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megaport

What is Backup and Disaster Recovery? A Complete Guide

Sep 7, 2026 By Serena Toh In Megaport
Learn what backup and disaster recovery means, how BDR works, and why it matters for reducing downtime and data loss. Backup and disaster recovery (BDR) is what keeps data loss from becoming a business-wide catastrophe. And to protect their business, IT teams need to ask if they can recover the right data, in the right order, fast enough for the business to keep operating. A backup can preserve a copy of a file, database, or workload, but disaster recovery is what brings the wider service back online.
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How to Stage Overnight DTF Transfers for a Next-Day Press Run

How to Stage Overnight DTF Transfers for a Next-Day Press Run

Sep 7, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Fast delivery can solve only one part of a rush apparel job. The transfers may arrive quickly, but a print shop can still lose valuable hours if the receiving area is disorganized, customer jobs are mixed together, transfer sizes are not labeled, or the press operator has to stop repeatedly to ask which order comes next. That is why next-day production should be planned before the package arrives. A receiving and staging workflow gives the team a way to move from delivery to pressing without turning speed into confusion.
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