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OTel Updates: Declarative Config - A Steadier Way to Configure OpenTelemetry SDKs

Nov 3, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Application configs change over time, often in small ways that are easy to miss. They may start simple — a few environment variables, one exporter, nothing unexpected. As your instrumentation grows, you add rules for filtering health check spans, adjust sampling based on attributes, or introduce environment-specific resource settings. Each change makes sense on its own. But months later, the picture can look different across dev, staging, and production.
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spike

Managing Alerts: Car Alarms and Smoke Alarms

Nov 3, 2025 By Ritik In Spike
Building and shipping an application is exciting, you watch your idea come alive and reach users. But once it’s out there, your real job begins: keeping it alive. An app in production isn’t just code running, it’s a living system. It needs monitoring to stay healthy and alerting to warn when something’s off. But there’s a catch: too few alerts, and you’ll miss real issues; too many, and you’ll drown in noise.
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cloudzero

The Outage Anxiety Test: Can You Answer These 3 Questions In Under 10 Minutes?

Nov 3, 2025 By Doug Bonderud In CloudZero
On Oct. 20, the Internet woke up and seemingly chose violence. For more than 12 hours, Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down. From banking platforms to hospital communications to mobile ordering apps, digital services came to a screeching halt. The cause? Two programs are trying to write a DNS entry simultaneously, failing, and leaving the entry blank. Thus began the incredibly costly failure cascade.
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cloudzero

AI And Sustainability: Measuring The Impact Of The Generative AI Boom

Nov 3, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Before 2022, Alex Hanna worked on Google’s Ethical AI team. Today, she’s the director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute, a transition sparked by Google’s handling of a paper exposing AI’s growing environmental footprint. So, how bad is it, really? That depends on who you ask. Take Jesse Dodge, a senior research analyst at the Allen Institute for AI. Jesse told NPR that a single ChatGPT query can use as much electricity as keeping a light bulb on for 20 minutes.
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Rovo AI: Create Work Items from Loom | Demo Den | Atlassian

Nov 3, 2025 By Atlassian In Atlassian
Ever wish you could turn a quick Loom recording into Jira work items without all the manual typing? Now you can! In this Demo Den episode, Pierre walks through a new Rovo AI feature that automatically converts your Loom videos into actionable Jira work items. Whether you're recording bug reports, feature requests, or project updates, Rovo handles the data entry for you. What Pierre covers: Turning Loom videos into work items with Rovo How it works in your AI-enabled Jira instance.
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Why AI Coding Assistants Fail (And How to Fix Them)

Nov 3, 2025 By GitKraken In GitKraken
Why do developers stop using AI coding assistants? According to Carnegie Mellon research, the top reason is unhelpful suggestions. Tabnine's Principal Architect John Feeney explains how context transforms AI coding tools from generic to genuinely useful. Learn the 4 Cs framework for maximizing AI assistant value: Context (workspace indexing), Connection (repo integration), Coaching (rules-based guidance), and Customization (fine-tuning). Discover how Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) helps AI understand your codebase, not just open source patterns.
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pulsant

Enterprise data centre security solutions: scaling securely for growth and resilience

Nov 1, 2025 By Pulsant In Pulsant
Securing a data centre requires multiple layers of protection. Physical access controls, surveillance, and network safeguards reinforce one another to prevent disruption. As estates expand and workloads increase, those measures have to scale. If they don’t, gaps appear in both resilience and compliance. A data centre security solution must therefore protect infrastructure day to day while adapting to future requirements. Pulsant delivers this through an integrated framework.
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bunnyshell

The Product Manager's Nightmare: Seeing Features Too Late

Oct 31, 2025 By Alin Dobra In Bunnyshell
Sarah stared at her laptop screen in disbelief. The feature her team had been building for three weeks was finally deployed to staging, and it looked nothing like what she had envisioned. The user interface was cramped, the workflow felt clunky, and the color scheme clashed with their brand guidelines. "Can we change the button placement?" she asked during the demo. "That'll require refactoring the entire component structure," replied the lead developer. "It's probably a two-day task now." What should have been a simple adjustment had become a major undertaking.
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speedscale

Part 2: Building a Production-Grade Traffic Capture, Transform and Replay System

Oct 31, 2025 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale
When developers try to build realistic mocks and automated tests from production network traffic, the real challenge isn’t just in the capturing—it’s in the data manipulation. Raw traffic is a chaotic sea of patterns, dynamic tokens, environment-specific secrets, and tangled dependencies that seem impossible to untangle by hand. Over my two decades of building these sytems, I learned that solving this problem requires more than brute-force parsing or ad hoc scripts.
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datadog

Automating your synthetic test infrastructure with Datadog Synthetic Monitoring and Terraform

Oct 31, 2025 By Addie Beach In Datadog
Testing ecosystems contain massive amounts of data, including outlined test scenarios, prerequisite configurations, and the tests themselves. As a result, these ecosystems are prone to data sprawl. This makes it difficult to prevent configuration drift and quickly spin up new tests, especially at the frequency needed to support a fast-growing application. Teams can handle these challenges by treating their tests as part of their application infrastructure.
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