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October 2025 Azure outage: How StatusGator detected it first

When Azure Front Door began to fail on October 29, 2025, hundreds of downstream services, including Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, and Azure SQL, went dark. While Microsoft didn’t publicly acknowledge the issue until 12:35 PM ET, StatusGator dashboards were already lighting up nearly 50 minutes earlier. StatusGator notified its subscribers of an Azure outage 42 minutes prior to the official status page at 11:53 AM ET.

Getting IT right in the age of AI: Lessons from a Silicon Valley veteran | Girish Bhat

In this episode of ITOM Spotlight, we sit down with Girish Bhat, Senior VP of GTM at Revifi, who has spent decades building, managing, and launching enterprise IT, security, and AI products at pioneering companies including Splunk, Cisco, Netscout, and Sumo Logic. With experience spanning engineering, product management, marketing, and GTM leadership, Girish brings a 360° perspective on how IT operations have evolved — from traditional alert-based monitoring to autonomous, AI-driven systems.

The Top Five Business Continuity Software

Disaster can strike any business at any time. Businesses must be prepared to continue critical operations with minimal disruption, whether it’s a flooded server room, a data breach, or any other kind of exploit. That’s why it’s essential to have strong measures in place—including a business continuity plan (BCP)—and the right tools to support these measures.

Harness patent for hybrid YAML editor enhances CI/CD workflows

Harness earned a patent for it's unified pipeline editor which makes it easy to configure pipelines whether they are for CI, CD, IaC, database migrations, service onboarding or other DevSecOps activities. ‍ We're thrilled to share some exciting news: Harness has been granted U.S. Patent US20230393818B2 (originally published as US20230393818A1) for our configuration file editor with an intelligent code-based interface and a visual interface.

Developer Onboarding

Welcome to the future of developer onboarding with Cortex. In this demo, you’ll see how Cortex helps new engineers ramp up faster by giving them instant access to everything they need—context, ownership, best practices, and workflows—all in one place. What you’ll learn in this video: With Cortex, onboarding becomes a structured, data-driven, and empowering experience. Developers can explore your ecosystem confidently, follow golden paths, and start delivering value immediately—reducing ramp-up time from months to days.

Terminate Idle Connections Automatically

Learn how to automatically close inactive connections in your Aiven for PostgreSQL service using pgBouncer’s idle timeout setting. In this demo, we’ll walk through the Aiven Console to adjust the server_idle_timeout value in pgBouncer’s advanced configuration, helping you optimise performance and free up resources by terminating idle connections faster.

Orbital Materials: WorldClass AI Models Built on CivoStack

Daniel Miodovnik, COO of Orbital Materials, explains how the CivoStack enables world‑class AI models that outperform the big‑tech giants. He outlines the power‑draw and cooling of megawatt‑scale GPU racks, the water‑ and CO₂‑intensity of today’s data centres, and why a sovereign, Civo‑based solution is the key to speed, and predictable costs.

How the CLI Simplifies Git Workflows

Managing 50 repos with different Git workflows is like conducting an orchestra where every musician is playing a different song. We built GitKraken CLI to fix this: multi-repo actions, a single command for all things Git, and team-wide standardization that doesn't sacrifice speed. Watch the full video on how we're simplifying complex workflows without dumbing down Git.