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Shopify Outage 2025: Rise of the Commerce Kaiju

It was a normal day in the land of eCommerce. Birds were singing, dashboards were loading, and merchants everywhere felt cautiously optimistic. Then the ground trembled. A tiny glitch. A flicker. A warning log no one read. And suddenly— BOOM! Shopify burst out of the digital ocean like a gigantic scaly beast that woke up on the wrong side of the server rack. Checkouts froze mid-purchase. Product pages stopped producting. Merchants stared blankly at blank screens. The Commerce Kaiju had arrived.

Aiven for PostgreSQL

Hounded with operational overhead and slow queries? Learn how to fetch data faster and simplify database management with Aiven for PostgreSQL. Aiven’s fully managed PostgreSQL service delivers high performance, automated scaling, and built-in resilience - without the headaches of manual setup and maintenance. Discover how to optimise queries, reduce latency, and stay focused on building your applications instead of managing infrastructure.

Introducing the BigPanda Triage Agent and the future of agentic L1 operations

If you’ve been following the development of BigPanda AI Detection and Response (ADR), you’re aware of our mission to automate Level 1 (L1) operations and eliminate the need for manual, time-consuming investigations. In our last update, we highlighted the manual, complex, and time-consuming processes that hinder modern IT teams. Enterprises spend billions on observability tools based on the false belief that more coverage equals total visibility.

AI Is Growing Your Data Faster Than Your Budget #telemetry #ai

Clint Sharp explains why data is growing at a 30% CAGR while budgets stay flat. Teams are already running infrastructure at 80 to 90% capacity, and AI agents multiply query volume by ten or fifty. What got you to 2025 will not get you to 2035. You need a new approach to handle AI scale without blowing up cost.

AI Agents Need Structured Telemetry. Are You Preparing? #telemetry #ai

Clint Sharp breaks down the shift from traditional observability to AI ready telemetry. Agents need well formed fields, consistent schemas, and predictable data models. If your environment is full of unstructured logs, agents will give inconsistent answers. The work starts now so your AI future can actually deliver value later.

Rollbar + Zapier AI: Automatically Generate Clear, Actionable Jira Tickets

How do you turn raw error payloads into clean, meaningful ticket summaries without touching a line of code? Engineering teams rely on fast, accurate error context to resolve issues efficiently. Rollbar does a great job capturing rich payload data at the moment an error occurs, but getting that data into your issue-tracking workflow can still require manual triage—especially if you want clean, human-readable summaries in Jira.

Rollbar + Zapier AI: Automatically Generate Clear, Actionable Jira Tickets

How do you turn raw error payloads into clean, meaningful ticket summaries without touching a line of code? Engineering teams rely on fast, accurate error context to resolve issues efficiently. Rollbar does a great job capturing rich payload data at the moment an error occurs, but getting that data into your issue-tracking workflow can still require manual triage—especially if you want clean, human-readable summaries in Jira.

Best Multiplayer Games for Small Groups

Grab your 2-6 closest friends (or that one reliable duo partner) and dive into chaos. Small-group multiplayer shines for intimate co-op grinds, hilarious party fails, and tense squad wipes-no massive lobbies or voice chat overload required. In December 2025, these titles dominate Steam with perfect scaling for tiny crews: duos for dates, trios for raids, quads for horror screams. From survival betrayals to kitchen nightmares, here's the top 10 ranked by current popularity (Steam concurrent) and small-group fit. Data as of Dec 5, 2025.