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Code Flow Live: What's New and Why It Matters

AI didn't just change how fast code gets written. It exposed a new bottleneck: everything around the code. Reviews slow down. Context gets lost. Planning drifts from implementation. Teams move fast and still feel stuck. That's the problem GitKraken is built to solve, and this Friday we're going live to walk through what's changed. We'll cover the latest Code Flow Company features we've shipped, how they connect developers, AI agents, and production into one system, and what it actually looks like to go from plan to main without the chaos.

The DevOps Hiring Crunch: How Distributed Teams Are Closing the Gap

Ask any engineering leader what keeps them up at night and "who's covering the pager next Tuesday" is usually somewhere on the list. DevOps and SRE roles have become some of the hardest positions to fill in software, and the shortage is starting to show up in the metrics ops teams care about most: MTTR, alert fatigue, and how many people are burned out on the on-call rotation.

Cortex Scorecards + DRIVE: measure engineering org health, not just output

Most engineering metrics track individual output. DRIVE measures the health of the system as a whole. In this Feature Friday, Director of Customer Education and Delivery Taylor Schmidt walks through Cortex's DRIVE scorecard and dashboard, a framework covering five pillars: delivery, reliability, initiatives, vigilance, and efficiency.

Why AI agents need a job description | The future of agentic AI in IT

An AI agent is only as useful as the job you can safely hand it. In this Zero Ticket Minute, Ian Coppock, Resolve Customer & Partner Marketing Manager, breaks down why enterprise AI is moving toward purpose-built agents with defined roles, scoped permissions, and real guardrails. That is the foundation for autonomous IT operations and Zero Ticket IT. Subscribe for weekly insights on AI, IT automation, and where enterprise operations are heading.

How Agentic AIOps & Autonomous IT Are Revolutionizing IT Operations | LogicMonitor + IBM

Discover how LogicMonitor and IBM, alongside Edwin AI, are transforming modern IT operations. In this panel discussion, Garth Fort (Chief Product Officer at LogicMonitor) and industry experts break down how businesses are moving past basic observability to embrace self-healing automation and autonomous IT across complex hybrid environments.

Upgrade Your AWS Deploy Orb to Get Deploy Markers

Upgrade to the latest version of your AWS deploy orb to get automatic registration of deploy markers. This will give you instant access to deployment timeline, auto-rollback, and version comparison when something breaks — for about five minutes of effort. It will also switch you to OIDC, so there are no long-lived keys to manage. It’s a single version bump. Here’s how.

Slack overview video

The new Spike app for Slack brings incident response into the channel your team already works in. This walkthrough covers the @Spike AI assistant, the redesigned incident alert template, Statuspage syncing, and on-call overrides. To get started, head to Slack settings inside Spike and reconnect the app. Chapters Statuspage syncing is available on all plans. Spike is an incident response and on-call management platform. Alert routing, escalation policies, on-call schedules, and incident management, built for engineering teams.

We rebuilt Spike app for Slack

The new Spike app for Slack brings incident response into the channel your team already works in. This walkthrough covers the @Spike AI assistant, the redesigned incident alert template, Statuspage syncing, and on-call overrides. To get started, head to Slack settings inside Spike and reconnect the app. Chapters Statuspage syncing is available on all plans. Spike is an incident response and on-call management platform. Alert routing, escalation policies, on-call schedules, and incident management, built for engineering teams.

Shai-Hulud style attacks need more than scanning

Pre-install scripts mean a malicious package can compromise a developer's laptop the moment it's pulled – no build, no deploy, no install required. That breaks the old model where scanning catches a bad package after the fact, when it's already too late. The fix is active policy enforcement at the point of pull, using signals like package age, signed provenance, and maintainer trust to filter out malicious packages before they ever land.