How One Engineer Made Freelancing Work Long-Term
Martin opens up about leaving full-time roles for the flexibility of freelancing. He shares how long-term projects, strong networks, and a bit of boredom drove the shift.
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DevEx Unpacked 004 - Scaling Startups, Blockchain & Developer Culture with Jack Spargo
Episode 004: In this episode of DevEx Unpacked, Alan Carson chats with Jack Spargo, CTO of Control Alt, about his fascinating career journey from aerospace engineering to leading blockchain-powered investment platforms. Jack shares lessons from being acquired overnight, the challenges of building a platform from scratch, and why he’s betting big on junior engineers and AI augmentation. They explore the realities of compliance, software supply chain security, and why Northern Ireland is fast becoming a serious start-up hub.
An Introduction to Bitbucket Pipelines
This video provides a 90-second introduction to Bitbucket Pipelines to help you get started with CI/CD in Bitbucket. Bitbucket pipes, which are reusable pipeline steps, are introduced. About Atlassian: Behind every great human achievement, there is a team. From medicine and space travel to disaster response and pizza deliveries, we help teams all over the planet advance humanity through the power of software. Our mission is to help unleash the potential of every team.
Anbox Cloud 1.26.0: what's new?
In this video, Anbox team covers new features and changes in Anbox Cloud 1.26.0 release: Deployment and operations Instance management Logging Dashboard enhancements Images Streaming CVEs What is Anbox Cloud? Anbox Cloud lets you run virtualized Android environments securely, at any scale, to any device letting you focus on your use case. Run Android in system containers, not emulators, on AWS, OCI, Azure, GCP or your private cloud with ultra low streaming latency.
Observability trends in Japan: Insights from Grafana Labs' latest survey
Japanese organizations are focused on controlling costs and limiting complexity—and they might be getting ready to broaden their adoption at just the right time, according to analysis of a micro survey on observability recently conducted by Grafana Labs. Observability is an evolving space in Japan, and this is the first time Grafana Labs has run a Japanese version of our annual Observability Survey.
Invisible dependencies, visible impact: Lessons from the Google Cloud outage
June 12, 2025. A date most of the Internet won’t remember — but anyone relying on Google Cloud will. In the span of minutes, a routine quota update snowballed into global disruption. APIs stopped responding. Dashboards stayed green. And across continents, teams scrambled to figure out if the problem was theirs — or Google's. It wasn’t a cyberattack. It wasn’t a datacenter fire.
Our Golang Stack in 2025
In our Go projects, we rely on a consistent and battle-tested stack of libraries that help us build reliable, maintainable, and scalable systems. We started using Go in our stack many years ago (before Go v1) and therefore many of our choices have changed over the years. Here in this post, I wanted to share some of the libraries we use regularly to power our Go apps.
How to Use an SLA Uptime Calculator to Understand Service Availability
TL;DR A Service Level Agreement (SLA) defines the required uptime for a service. An SLA uptime calculator helps convert uptime percentages into actual allowed downtime across different timeframes. This guide explains how these calculators work, why uptime matters, and how to monitor performance to meet SLA targets.
OpenTelemetry for Go: measuring the overhead
Everything comes at a cost — and observability is no exception. When we add metrics, logging, or distributed tracing to our applications, it helps us understand what’s going on with performance and key UX metrics like success rate and latency. But what’s the cost? I’m not talking about the price of observability tools here, I mean the instrumentation overhead.
Data Lake Preview and Data Retrieval
Follow Rich Murphy Director of Product Management for Security walking you through Data Lake Preview and Retrieval.