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How To Migrate Away From DogStatsD Using Telegraf

Dec 1, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire

Datadog is a popular monitoring platform, and one of its key components is DogStatsD which is a customized extension of the original open-source StatsD protocol. DogStatsD adds powerful features like tagging, histograms, and distributions, but it also introduces vendor lock-in. This is because DogStatsD metrics follow a specific wire format that many other monitoring platforms do not natively support.

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Get 97% faster feedback with Smarter Testing by CircleCI

Dec 1, 2025 By Vineet Antil In CircleCI

Fast feedback is the foundation of software delivery at scale. Long build and test cycles break developer focus, turning simple changes into momentum-killing pauses. Studies show that recovering from these interruptions can take twenty minutes or longer. Multiply that by dozens of commits per day and context‑switching time quickly turns into days of lost productivity.

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Stop choosing between fast incident response and secure access

Dec 1, 2025 By Article In Incident.io

Every production system will eventually break. It's not pessimism, it's just reality. That's why engineers go on-call, and why companies invest heavily in incident response tooling. But here's the problem: the moment an engineer goes on call, they typically need elevated access to production systems, databases, and sensitive customer data. And that elevated access? It's often permanent, overly broad, and a security nightmare waiting to happen.

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Staging Environments Explained: Why Staging Is Essential for Safe, Reliable Software Releases

Dec 1, 2025 By Harness In Harness

A staging environment is the final checkpoint before any software update goes live, a production-like space where bugs, performance issues, and integration failures can be caught before they impact real users. In this video, we break down what a staging environment is, why it’s critical, and how it helps ensure smooth, predictable deployments.

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Monitor Everything is an Anti-Pattern!

Dec 1, 2025 By Costa Tsaousis In netdata

Bullshit and nonsense. But let’s take it from the beginning. The industry’s story goes something like this: Then, in the same breath: You see the contradiction already, right? The same industry that tells you “collect less, simplify, trust the experts” is also the industry where: This isn’t an observability strategy. It’s observability by hindsight. Right. Good. Now we’re having fun.

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ShipTalk S4E5 | How to Build Real-World ML for 2D Drawings | Marina Petzel (Senior ML Engineer)

Dec 1, 2025 By Harness In Harness

What does it actually take to ship AI into a 40+ year old product used by millions of professionals? In this episode of ShipTalk, Dewan Ahmed (Principal Developer Advocate, Harness) chats with Marina Petzel, Senior ML Engineer and AI Productivity Lead at Autodesk, about building and shipping practical AI, not just flashy demos.

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Ubuntu Summit 25.10 | Opening remarks

Dec 1, 2025 By Canonical Ubuntu In Canonical

Canonical's Founder and CEO, Mark Shuttleworth, welcomes the attendees of the Ubuntu Summit 25.10. He highlights the interdependence of the open source ecosystem and the role of Ubuntu as both an aggregator and an innovator. He also discusses key partnerships across silicon, cloud, ISVs, and the Ubuntu community, and introduces a new global grassroots strategy leading into future summits.

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DOOM in space | Ubuntu Summit 25.10

Dec 1, 2025 By Canonical Ubuntu In Canonical

"What do you answer if someone asks you, “Hey, wanna play video games in space?” Of course, you say "Yes!" This is the story of that project. In this talk, Ólafur Waage explains the project, the technical issues they encountered along the way, and its results - as well as why the team chose DOOM.

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Best Cyber Monday VPS Deals 2025: How to Evaluate Real Value Beyond Discounts

Dec 1, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters

December brings a flood of Cyber Monday VPS deals, each promising unbeatable savings. The challenge isn't finding deals. It's identifying which ones deliver actual long-term value versus temporary promotional pricing that evaporates after a few billing cycles. This guide evaluates Cyber Monday VPS deals using three core metrics: total cost over realistic usage periods, included features versus add-on fees, and management requirements that impact your team's time investment.

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End-to-End Testing for Microservices: A 2025 Guide

Nov 30, 2025 By Alin Dobra In Bunnyshell

End-to-end testing has always been a double-edged sword - even more so in the world of microservices. On one hand, E2E tests are critical for validating that all services work together seamlessly in real user flows. On the other hand, many experts warn that heavy reliance on end-to-end testing in a microservices architecture can create a "distributed monolith," slowing down deployments and undermining the very agility microservices promise. There's truth to that: if done poorly, E2E tests can become brittle, flaky, and a bottleneck that reduces your deployment frequency.

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