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Less Overhead, More Impact: The Cycle Approach

Every company is now a software company. While the industry gets caught up in buzzwords and complexity, the core question remains: How can my organization reduce costs without creating long-term problems, and without giving up security or speed? The Cycle platform was built to answer this. It offers a lower total cost of ownership, simplifies operations at scale through automation and standards, and is secure by default without slowing down development.

Zero downtime deployments to Render using CircleCI

Downtime during deployments can affect the performance of your work. Data can be lost, and trust in your application can be destroyed. Luckily, zero downtime deployments do not need to be complex or involve a big infrastructure. This tutorial will teach you to establish a stable CI/CD pipeline with CircleCI and Render to automatically test and deploy a basic React application.

Reliability is about more than uptime

Reliability results are more than whether your application is up, it's about proactive measurement and keeping it up. Full transcript:  Reliability results in my earlier career was, "Is there any downtime? Are there any errors that are getting thrown?" It's not a proactive way to measure your reliability. If you're measuring it in time of production, it's not gonna be an accurate reflection of what your reliability is. The way that my mindset has changed over time has been a proactive measurement. Before we ship something out, is this gonna be reliable from the start?

FireHydrant MCP Server User Guide

Tips and best practices to help you get up and running with FireHydrant's Model Context Protocol integration. Manage incidents, alerts, and retrospectives directly through AI assistants like Claude or Cursor. Welcome to the FireHydrant MCP Server user guide! This guide will help you get up and running with FireHydrant's Model Context Protocol integration, allowing you to manage incidents, alerts, and retrospectives directly through AI assistants like Claude or Cursor.

Platform Team Toolkit: Governance that accelerates developer velocity

Platform engineering teams face a critical challenge: scaling software delivery across dozens of development teams without killing innovation and velocity. The traditional approach forces an impossible choice: rigid standardization or operational chaos. Platform teams get buried in manual configuration requests, security updates take weeks to roll out, and compliance gaps emerge from inconsistent practices and developer workarounds.

HAProxy Enterprise WAF protects against Microsoft SharePoint CVE-2025-53770 / CVE-2025-53771

Critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint (CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771) are currently being exploited in the wild. Disclosed on July 19, 2025, these vulnerabilities have CVSS scores of 9.8 and 7.1 respectively, indicating severe and high risk. CVE-2025-53770 affects on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Servers, allowing unauthorized attackers to execute code over a network. CVE-2025-53771 affects Microsoft Office SharePoint, allowing authorized attackers to perform spoofing over a network.