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Streamline Incident Management with the New Netdata-ServiceNow Integration

When a critical alert fires at 2 AM, the last thing your on-call engineer should be doing is manual administrative work. Yet, for many teams, that’s exactly what happens. You see the alert in your monitoring tool, then you have to switch contexts, open a new browser tab, log into your ITSM platform, and manually create an incident—all while your systems are failing.

Reliability lessons from the 2025 AWS DynamoDB outage

On October 19th and 20th, 2025, the AWS region US-EAST-1 suffered a massive outage. What started with a 3-hour Amazon DynamoDB outage from a DNS issue led to an Amazon EC2 outage that lasted an additional 12 hours before normal service was restored. Over the course of the outage, there were over 17 million outage reports as companies like Snapchat, Roblox, Amazon, Reddit, Venmo, and more were impacted.

New Feature Friday: AI Readiness and AI Maturity

Everyone wants to move faster with AI. But are you ready for it? In this Feature Friday, Jeff from Cortex shares how working with AI tools like Claude helped him write better code — and why true AI maturity starts with solid engineering hygiene. You’ll learn: “With great power comes great responsibility… and better tests.".

From rollouts to results: Unlocking the value of Feature Management and Experimentation

Unlock Faster, Safer Releases with Feature Management and Experimentation Learn how top engineering and product teams use Harness Feature Management & Experimentation (FME) to accelerate innovation, reduce release risks, and continuously deliver value. In this on-demand webinar, Harness experts Alex Bock and Iram Khan share how to go beyond feature flags to achieve smarter, data-driven releases. Discover how to.

3 Ways to Embed Digital Strategy into DevOps and IT Operations

Let's be honest, in most companies, the people who handle "digital strategy" and the ones who keep the systems running barely speak the same language. The strategy folks are talking about growth, engagement, customer journeys. The ops teams? They're buried in uptime reports, patch schedules, and incident tickets. Somewhere in the middle, the actual connection between the two gets lost.

Speedscale Proxymock: Freely testing cloud native apps alongside AI code assistants

We’ll always remember 2025 as the year AI code assistants went big. Copilot, Cursor, Claude, Windsurf, whatever. Developers went from mistrusting these tools, to being expected to turn over much of their coding labor to them. Even if, according to an extensive Stack Overflow survey, only 3 percent of professional developers say they ‘highly trust’ AI coding tools.

Hyperview DCIM 5.2 Software Release

This release focuses on giving you more control over your infrastructure connections and ensuring your monitoring tools run smoother than ever. From enhanced circuit management and expanded search capabilities to optimized data collectors and advanced Modbus support, this update delivers practical improvements that make your day-to-day operations more efficient.

Hyperview DCIM 5.1 Software Release

This release is all about helping you move faster, see more, and manage your infrastructure with greater ease. From real-time polling and smarter layout tools to expanded support for DC power and new visual enhancements in rack views, this update is packed with practical improvements. Plus, with French language support and key bug fixes, it’s more accessible and reliable than ever.

Navigating the path from startup speed to enterprise scale | Braintrust by Cortex

(00:20) The founding journey: from zero to one hundred customers(01:13) Day one: Building the first version of the service catalog(04:25) Why speed is a startup's only superpower(09:54) The mindset shift to enterprise-grade reliability and scale(13:06) How quality becomes a competitive advantage(14:46) High-leverage early decisions: writing tests and supporting on-prem(17:38) Balancing speed and quality in the age of AI(21:21) How AI will shift, not replace, engineering roles(26:53) Advice for engineering leaders working with founders.