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statuscake

Alerting Is a Socio-Technical System

Feb 25, 2026 By James Barnes In StatusCake
In the previous posts, we’ve looked at how alert noise emerges from design decisions, why notification lists fail to create accountability, and why alerts only work when they’re designed around a clear outcome. Taken together, these ideas point to a broader conclusion. That alerting is not just a technical system, it’s a socio-technical one. Alerting systems encode assumptions about how people behave, how responsibility is distributed, and how decisions are made under pressure.
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honeycomb

Incident Report: Exercises, Cleanups, and Evacuations

Feb 25, 2026 By Fred Hebert In Honeycomb
Every year, Honeycomb runs disaster recovery scenarios in multiple environments, including in production. Although each of our instances runs in a single region, on at least three Availability Zones (AZs), we have multiple plans for partial regional failures, and particularly, zonal failures. One of these tests was run on December 5th, and after its successful completion came its cleanup steps.
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civo

The story behind Konstruct: Lessons learned scaling GitOps

Feb 25, 2026 By John Dietz In Civo
In 2024, Civo acquired Konstruct (formerly Kubefirst) to reinforce our commitment to simplifying cloud computing complexities. When this acquisition was made, it began a whole new chapter for the team behind Konstruct. Over the years, we assembled our team by working with a community of thousands of engineers in what can be a very complex cloud native environment. We were fortunate to join forces with Civo as they aligned with our cloud native and portable vision.
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nexthink

Digital Employee Experience Is Now Core to IT - Recognized by Analysts, Reinforced by Customers

Feb 25, 2026 By Paul Gentile In Nexthink
Over the past few years, Digital Employee Experience (DEX) has moved from emerging concept to essential capability for modern IT organizations. The conversation has changed. IT is no longer measured only by system uptime or ticket resolution. Today, success is defined by how technology actually performs for employees — and how consistently organizations can deliver productive, friction-free digital work.
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observiq

Claude Code + OpenTelemetry: Per-Session Cost and Token Tracking

Feb 25, 2026 By Adnan Rahic In ObservIQ
I was looking at our Claude Code spend in the Anthropic console the other day. Aggregate cost, aggregate tokens — no breakdown by developer, no breakdown by session. I knew my Hackathon team had been using it heavily on building out new features for the OpenTelemetry Distro Builder. But heavily how? I had no idea. Turns out Claude Code has been emitting OpenTelemetry signals the whole time. Per-session cost, token counts, every tool call it makes on your codebase.
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jfrog

Native Nix Support in Artifactory: The Binary Cache for the Enterprise

Feb 25, 2026 By Tom Arie In JFrog
The “works on my machine” era is officially over. Nix is changing the way we think about software by treating packages as functional, immutable values, ensuring that a build works exactly the same way every time, on every machine. But while Nix excels on a local laptop, scaling that level of reproducibility across a global enterprise has historically been a challenge.
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changetower

Best Website Monitoring Tools for Compliance and Security in 2026

Feb 25, 2026 By ChangeTower In ChangeTower
Compliance audits used to be annual fire drills. Teams would scramble for weeks gathering screenshots, pulling logs, and hoping nothing slipped through the cracks. That approach no longer works when regulations like GDPR and HIPAA require continuous documentation and real-time evidence of security controls. Website monitoring tools designed for compliance have evolved to address this reality, automating evidence collection and flagging issues before auditors ever arrive.
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circleci

Getting started with Windsurf and CircleCI

Feb 25, 2026 By Roger Winter In CircleCI
AI coding assistants are transforming how developers write software. Tools like Windsurf can generate entire modules, refactor complex code, and fix bugs in seconds. But speed comes with a tradeoff: AI-generated code can introduce subtle bugs, security vulnerabilities, or breaking changes that slip past even experienced developers. That’s where continuous integration comes in. CI acts as a safety net, automatically testing every change before it reaches production.
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VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics February 2026 Ecosystem Updates

Feb 25, 2026 By Pablo Fernandez In VictoriaMetrics
This month, we’re thrilled to see OpenAI using the VictoriaMetrics Stack internally — including VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, and VictoriaTraces — in their Harness engineering experiment, as shown in their architecture diagram. It’s a great way of combining observability and AI agents.
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4 Smart Investment Opportunities to Make the Most Out of Your Money

4 Smart Investment Opportunities to Make the Most Out of Your Money

Feb 25, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In a world where rising costs of living and inflation often outpace the interest rates you might expect from your savings account, it's far better to make your money work for you than to leave it to stagnate. When it comes to investing your money, a diversified portfolio is often the best option. Low-risk, long-term investments can earn you a regular income of dividends over time, whereas higher-risk investments provide opportunities to make a lot of money, albeit with more risk of losing your cash. Here are a few ways to build your investment portfolio so you can make your money work for you.
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