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Buy vs Build in the Age of AI (Part 1)

A few months ago, I spoke to an engineering manager who proudly told me they had rebuilt their monitoring stack over a long weekend. They’d used AI to scaffold synthetic checks. They’d generated alert logic with dynamic thresholds. They’d then wired everything into Slack and PagerDuty, and built a clean internal dashboard. “It used to take us weeks to prototype something like this,” they said. “Now it’s basically instant.” They weren’t wrong.

Why Planning Your Estate Early Can Protect Your Family's Future

Many people think estate planning is something to handle later in life. But waiting can leave your family unprepared and stressed during difficult times. Creating your estate plan early helps you decide how your assets will be managed, who will care for your loved ones, and how your wishes will be followed. It also helps avoid legal delays, family conflicts, and unnecessary costs.

Claude Code Security Launch Triggers Cybersecurity Industry Reassessment

On February 20, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude Code Security, an AI-based tool to scan codebases, identify security weaknesses, and provide patching solutions. The Claude Code preview caused a panic that resulted in billions in lost market capitalization among cybersecurity stocks. CrowdStrike shares decreased by 8%, reaching approximately $388.87, while Okta experienced a 9.2% decline and Zscaler saw a 5.5% drop in its stock price. That demonstrates the increasing investor anxiety about AI technology developments that threaten to disrupt established cybersecurity frameworks.

How Operations Teams Protect Profit Margins From Currency Swings

Profit margins rarely collapse overnight. Instead, they erode quietly through small inefficiencies, rising supply costs, logistic delays, and currency fluctuations. The first line of defense for any company expanding globally is the operations team. A sudden movement in foreign exchange markets can seriously influence a company's seamless operations by raising procurement costs, inflating payroll expenses, or reducing international revenue as the currency in which you generate earnings becomes weaker.

8 Of The Best SEO and GEO Agencies For UK Businesses In 2026

In today's day and age, you'll really struggle as a business if you're not prioritising the digital world. No matter what you do and who you are, you'll always benefit from a greater online presence. Of course, getting things set up can be intense. From managing social media to website design, there's so much to think about, so it's only natural to feel a bit overwhelmed.

The Ultimate Black Friday Technical Checklist: Prepare your infrastructure for Black Friday

Updated March 03, 2026 One of the things that keep online shop owners awake at night is – will my website withstand the Black Friday traffic? As this is one of the most important days of the year, a downtime of even a few minutes can translate into thousands of dollars in losses. This is why we’ve decided to come to your aid with a hands-on article where we discuss the most common Black Friday problems eCommerce websites should avoid, and how you can avoid them.

Debugging Encrypted Microservice Traffic with Speedscale's eBPF Collector

Production bugs that only reproduce in actual traffic can be some of the most frustrating bugs in software development. You can stare at your logs, add traces to your code, add instrumentation – and still not be able to see the actual requests that went over the wire. And that gets even harder when the requests are encrypted and the system is a black box. You can use tools like Wireshark or Kubeshark to capture the requests.

Spring Boot API Testing: A Practical Guide for Enterprise Teams

Enterprise Spring Boot APIs should be tested at three levels: unit tests for business logic, integration tests for external service behavior, and traffic replay for production edge cases. Most teams only do the first. This guide shows all three using a real Spring Boot application that calls external APIs (SpaceX, US Treasury) with JWT authentication. The kind of service that looks simple in development and breaks in production.

February 2026 product updates

February brought powerful new improvements to StatusGator – from better status page analytics and expanded API capabilities to smarter incident detection. We also published our latest Early Warning Signals report, highlighting major outages we detected before providers acknowledged them. Here’s everything that’s new.