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haproxy

How Liftoff cut costs by 87% and latency by 75% with HAProxy

Jul 2, 2026 By Daniel Skrba In HAProxy
Liftoff, a mobile advertising company, processes 1.5 trillion bid requests every month. Their platform touches 275 million unique devices daily across 150 geographies. At that scale, the proxy layer is a core part of the business. For years, Liftoff relied on a managed enterprise proxy vendor. It worked, until it didn’t.
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The golden path: security that works because it's the easy path

Jul 2, 2026 By Cloudsmith In Cloudsmith
A golden path for dependency management isn't a policy document – it's a preconfigured private registry with upstream proxies covering every ecosystem your teams use, set as the default. Developers don't opt into security; they get it automatically by using the standard toolchain. The alternative is teams configuring their own controls, producing inconsistent postures and compounding risk across the org. If the secure path requires extra steps, developers will route around it. Make it the easiest option and the policy enforces itself.
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Walkthrough: Puppet System Hardening Assessment

Jul 2, 2026 By Perforce Puppet In Puppet
Is your infrastructure as secure as you think it is? In this walkthrough, see how aSystem Hardening Assessmenthelps organizations identify security gaps, uncover configuration risks, and prioritize remediation efforts across critical systems. You'll learn how teams can evaluate their environment against security best practices, gain visibility into potential vulnerabilities, and take actionable steps to strengthen their overall security posture.
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circleci

ACP vs MCP: What's the difference for agentic coding?

Jul 2, 2026 By Roger Winter In CircleCI
An AI coding agent holds many conversations at once. Not only is the user prompting it, the agent also talks to the IDE, showing diffs and asking before it touches a file. At the same time it talks to tools, pulling a failing build or querying a database. Two open protocols standardize those conversations. This guide compares ACP vs MCP in practical terms: what each protocol does and when each applies. ACP (Agent Client Protocol) connects a code editor to an AI coding agent.
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How ITOps Can Automate Data Discovery for Rapid Privacy Request Fulfilment

How ITOps Can Automate Data Discovery for Rapid Privacy Request Fulfilment

Jul 2, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
For most organisations, managing data privacy compliance is traditionally viewed as a legal or governance function. However, when a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) or Freedom of Information (FOI) application is submitted, the actual labour of retrieving that data falls squarely on IT operations. With the passing of the Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024, Australian businesses are facing some of the most comprehensive federal privacy reforms in over a decade.
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Why Modern Data Centers Require Better Insulation Strategies for Continuous Uptime

Why Modern Data Centers Require Better Insulation Strategies for Continuous Uptime

Jul 2, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
From streaming platforms to banking networks, today's digital demands rest on advanced facilities that operate without pause. With companies relying heavily on constant connectivity, stability within these environments matters more than ever before. A short disruption might result not only in monetary setbacks but also slower workflows and weakened confidence among users. Although computing hardware, climate controls, and emergency energy sources typically dominate discussions, protective layering quietly contributes just as much to seamless performance.
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pagerduty

Rundeck/RBA 6.0: Modernizing the foundation your automation runs on

Jul 1, 2026 By Aatharsha Jeyachelvan In PagerDuty
This blog post is part of PagerDuty’s ongoing series on how we’re helping customers navigate their journey towards autonomous operations. Read on to learn about how PagerDuty’s Rundeck/RBA 6.0 recently announced in GA builds towards this vision.
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certkit

Automating SonicWall Certificate Deployment with the SonicOS API

Jul 1, 2026 By Jordan Griffin In CertKit
How do we keep our Sonicwall certificates up to date as certificate lifetimes get shorter? We’re already at 200 day certs with 100 then 47 day certificates coming soon. A certificate you used to touch once every year now needs replacing up to twelve times a year. Doing this by hand is out of the question, no one has the time. Even if they did, the frequent updates is just asking for mistakes. Luckily, this can be automated using the SonicOS API.
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