Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Last week, the cloud-native jamboree that is KubeCon descended on London, UK (my home city), and HAProxy Technologies set out to be the life of the party. This year’s event was our biggest yet, so we brought our A-game – with a huge booth, a lot to show off, and thousands and thousands of T-shirts to fold and give away.

DORA is a recent addition to EU regulations designed to help businesses in the finance industry increase their security by monitoring and preventing cyberattacks by monitoring, identifying, and reacting to incidents that could threaten financial data. Throughout this article, we will explain the DORA regulation, who does the DORA regulation apply to, and how to help gain DORA compliance via implementing new security protocols and secure third-party services.

An incident response platform helps organizations manage, track, and resolve IT incidents quickly and efficiently. With the right platform, teams can minimize downtime, reduce the impact of incidents, and improve overall response times. ‍ In this article, we’ll explore the top 5 incident response platforms for 2025, helping you choose the best solution for your needs. ‍

Monitoring applications shouldn’t be a guessing game. But too often, DevOps engineers end up buried under a pile of metrics that don’t help when things go wrong. That’s where Prometheus APM comes in. It offers a straightforward way to make sense of your systems—especially when you're working with modern, distributed setups like microservices.

When architecting high-performance infrastructure capable of handling substantial traffic loads, the choice of load balancer is a critical decision that can significantly impact system reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency. Among the leading contenders, HAProxy and NGINX stand out as mature, battle-tested solutions with distinct strengths and characteristics.

For decades, advertising has operated on a fundamental assumption - creative excellence alone drives business results. This principle, enshrined in industry awards, agency structures, and marketing departments worldwide, created a system where their ingenuity rather than revenue contribution judged campaigns. The most celebrated advertisements weren't necessarily the most effective; they were the most memorable.

If you run IT operations for a managed service provider (MSP), you know you’ve got to work with a lot of different customers, each of whom presents a unique set of challenges to your ability to deliver the services that you offer. These customers expect flawless service delivery—and often, you’re asked to deliver that despite the limitations of your own IT infrastructure. But don’t fret.

Enterprises lose millions annually due to API outages and performance degradation. Modern observability strategies are crucial to mitigate these risks. Today, almost every system is dependent on APIs. Data integration, authentication, payment processing, and many other functions rely on multiple reliable and performant APIs. Banks around the world, for example, have adopted the Open Banking API for payments, credit scoring, lending origination, fraud detection, and lots more.

It's a beautiful day. You're settling in with your morning coffee, feeling positive, and ready to take on the tasks of the day. Emails are trickling in, orders are processing, customers are happy, and everything is running like clockwork—until abruptly, it isn't. Willfully, your network decides it's time it took a coffee break, too. Pages won't load, transactions hang mid-air, and the entire office looks at you like you personally unplugged the internet simply because you sneezed at the wrong time.