Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

How I Use GenAI as a Thought Partner, Not a Shortcut

You don’t need to be a power user to get powerful results. I’m not training models or prompting GPTs into poetry—I’m just using them to do what great managers already try to do: communicate clearly, prioritize outcomes, and lead with intention. Over the last few quarters, I’ve built a handful of custom GPTs to support my weekly, monthly, and quarterly workflows.

Updated MPLAB X IDE Plugin

We’re happy to announce that our Trace Export Plugin for MPLAB X IDE has been updated to version 2.3.1 and now supports the latest versions of Microchip’s IDE, including MPLAB X v6.20 and v6.25. This plugin enables saving trace files from Percepio’s TraceRecorder library via the MPLAB X IDE debugger, making it easy to open the trace in Percepio Tracealyzer and related tools.

Why Excel Falls Short for Inventory Management - And What to Use Instead

Inventory management is a critical function for any organization. Many small businesses begin with Excel inventory management because it’s accessible and low-cost. While inventory management in Excel may work in the short term, it quickly becomes inefficient as your operations grow.

Observing Vercel AI SDK with OpenTelemetry + SigNoz

LLM-powered apps are growing fast, and frameworks like the Vercel AI SDK make it easy to build them. But with AI comes complexity. Latency issues, unpredictable outputs, and opaque failures can impact user experience. That’s why monitoring is essential. By using OpenTelemetry for standard instrumentation and SigNoz for observability, you can track performance, detect errors, and gain insights into your AI app’s behavior with minimal setup.

5 Assumptions CIOs Need to Rethink: Monitoring in the Age of Complexity

Today’s digital delivery models have fundamentally changed, yet many CIOs are still using monitoring strategies built for a world that no longer exists. With Internet dependencies, external APIs, SaaS platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices dominating modern architectures, performance and reliability now hinge on systems IT teams don’t fully control. Traditional, reactive monitoring tools fail to provide visibility into the end-to-end experience. They alert you after the customer has already felt the pain.

Why Cloud-Based DCIM Software Outperforms Legacy Systems

The data center industry’s rapid evolution requires innovative tools to address its ever-changing demands. Cloud-based Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions have emerged as a powerful alternative to traditional on-premise systems, offering unmatched scalability, cost savings, real-time monitoring, and AI-driven insights.

Introducing parent/child pipelines

We’re excited to announce the launch of parent/child pipelines for Bitbucket Pipelines. This powerful new capability lets you define a step within a pipeline that triggers and encapsulates a whole other pipeline, which can help to streamline more complex workflows into modular pieces and achieve greater parallelism within your pipeline.

Cleaning House: Tackle Your Technical Debt

Whether it's a situation that you've stumbled into or it's been building up over time due to budget constraints or limited time, technical debt plagues many an organization. And unfortunately, just like real debt, it's hard to clear once it's begun to pile up. In this stream, we'll be talking to a few IT leaders to discuss what technical debt looks like for them, what problems it can cause over time, and how you can start to chip away at the mountain.