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Introducing the Cortex MCP Server

Cortex gives engineering teams full visibility and control over their services, from ownership and standards to service history and production readiness. Our goal is to help teams stay aligned and move faster so they are ready for whatever is ahead. The reality for any engineering team is that developers spend the most of their time in their IDE, not their IDP. And while developers love the context Cortex provides, they don’t love context switching.

Smarter Insights and Pipeline Control - New in DataStream

We’re constantly improving DataStream to make security data management simpler, smarter, and more efficient for modern SOCs. This latest update introduces new capabilities that bring even more visibility and flexibility to your telemetry pipelines. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new.

New in OTel: Auto-Instrument Your Apps with the OTel Injector

As distributed systems scale, maintaining manual instrumentation across services quickly becomes unsustainable. The OTel Injector addresses this by automatically attaching OpenTelemetry instrumentation to applications, no code changes needed. This blog covers how the OTel Injector works, how it integrates with Linux environments, and how to set it up for consistent telemetry across your stack.

Why Your Loki Metrics Are Disappearing (And How to Fix It)

Grafana Loki is up and running, log ingestion looks healthy, and dashboards are rendering without issues. But when you query logs from a few weeks ago, the data's missing. This is a recurring problem for many teams using Loki in production: while the system handles short-term log visibility well, it often lacks the retention guarantees developers expect for historical analysis and incident review.

Scaling Online Game Infrastructure for High-Engagement PvM Content

The explosive popularity of player-versus-monster (PvM) content in online games brings significant backend challenges, particularly as titles scale globally. Instanced boss fights, real-time combat logic, and mass player concurrency demand robust, responsive server infrastructure that can scale both horizontally and vertically - without degrading the player experience.

From Wallpaper to Web Servers: How One Immigrant Switched from Walls to DevOps in Just Two Years

He landed in the U.S. with a suitcase, a scraper, and a strong back. No tech degree. No connections. Just a willingness to work and a sense that something bigger might be possible. At first, he did what he knew best - he worked as a wallpaper installer. The job was honest, physical, and surprisingly calming. "There's something meditative about smoothing out bubbles," he says. "But after a while, I realized I wanted to build something that didn't peel off the wall."

PostgreSQL Table partitions now supported in Flyway

This blog post was originally authored by Prajakta Tamhankar, whose insights and expertise shaped much of the content you’ll read here. We are thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of Table Partitions for PostgreSQL users in Flyway v8.0.2. This new functionality is designed to enhance your database management experience by providing robust support for table partitions, including sub-partitions and range partitions.