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What's New in InfluxDB 3 Explorer 1.7: Table Management, Data Import, Transforms, and More

InfluxDB 3 Explorer 1.7 is a step forward for anyone who wants to manage their time series data without constantly switching between the UI and a terminal. This release adds table-level schema management, the ability to import data from other InfluxDB instances, and a new Transform Data section to reshape your data, all within the Explorer UI.

Ephemeral Leaks and Automated BGP Route Leak Detection

Many BGP route leaks reported by automated detection systems are actually brief, low-impact artifacts of normal BGP convergence. Doug Madory examines examples from Cloudflare Radar, Routeviews, and Jared Mauch’s long-running leak detector to show how these “ephemeral leaks” arise, why they usually don’t disrupt traffic, and why they still matter for routing security.

AI vs. Hype: Redefining Engineering Excellence with Ron Miller

In this episode of "ShipTalk: Engineering Excellence," host Thomas Dockstader sits down with Ron Miller, editor at Fast Forward, to discuss the real-world impact of AI on software development. They dive deep into the maturity of AI-driven code, the rise of the "citizen developer," and why traditional writing and communication skills are becoming the new must-have for modern engineers.

N+1 Detection in AppSignal's OpenTelemetry Trace Timeline

N+1 query problems are one of the most common, and quietly damaging, performance issues in production applications. One extra query per record feels harmless in development. At scale, it becomes the reason your response times degrade and your database buckles under load. Today, AppSignal adds N+1 detection to its OpenTelemetry support. When we identify the pattern in a trace, we collapse the repetitive spans directly in the timeline, making the problem immediately visible in the trace itself.

Beyond the pull request: why code review is not infrastructure validation

Code review and infrastructure validation are distinct problems. While AI can review syntax, only an active, data-complete environment can validate system-wide state. Upsun provides the unified configuration file needed to turn "looks good to me" into verified production-readiness.

Beyond the Prompt: AI Agent Design Patterns and the New Governance Gap

If you are treating Large Language Models (LLMs) like simple question-and-answer machines, you are leaving their most transformative potential on the table. The industry has officially shifted from zero-shot prompting to structured AI agent design patterns and agentic workflows where AI iteratively reasons, uses external tools, and collaborates to solve complex engineering problems.

Grave improvements: Native crash postmortems via Android tombstones

Native crashes on Android have always been harder to debug than they should be. The platform has its own crash reporter (debuggerd) that captures the crashing thread, every other running thread, register state, and memory maps into a file called a tombstone. Tombstones have been a part of Android for a long time; in fact, they’ve been there in one form or another since Android's first commit.

What Is an AI SRE? And Why Do They Need Live Runtime Evidence?

AI SREs are autonomous systems that handle incident triage, root cause analysis, and remediation by correlating logs, metrics, traces, and code signals. However, as they rely on pre-configured telemetry, the critical execution details of a specific failure, such as variable state and code paths, can often be missed. As a result, they either force users into manual redeploy loops or make inferences from partial data, diagnosing issues using probability rather than proof.

Site24x7 MSP: The all-in-one platform for managed service providers

Managing dozens of client environments you don't own, behind firewalls you can't see through, while keeping SLAs intact is the essential MSP predicament. Site24x7 MSP is a cloud-native platform built to solve it. From a single multi-tenant console, monitor servers, networks, applications, and cloud workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP with agent-based telemetry that catches issues before they escalate. True data isolation and RBAC keep client accounts secure. White-labeled portals, domains, and agents make it look like your platform. AI-powered self-healing workflows resolve incidents automatically.

What Are DNS Records? DNS explained in simple terms | A complete guide

Learn how DNS (Domain Name System) works and why it's called the internet's phone book. This video breaks down the entire DNS resolution process, from cache checks to root servers, and covers every essential DNS record type, including A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, SOA, TXT, PTR, SRV, and CAA records.