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IT Ops teams face two failures that pull in opposite directions: responders interrupted so often that they stop reacting, and a truly critical alert lost inside that same flood. Alert noise and alert fatigue describe those two problems, and treating them as one usually makes both worse. This article shows how to reduce interruptions without making critical incidents easier to miss.

The AI red teaming market grew up fast this year. OpenAI bought Promptfoo, Cisco and Microsoft shipped automated attack suites, and a seed-stage startup publicly compromised 50 of 55 live customer service bots. These platforms find real problems at a scale no human team can match. But when you read the findings closely, a pattern emerges: agents talked into refunds, transfers, and data leaks they had standing authority to perform. Patching the prompt fixes one phrasing until the next model update.

A backup is only useful if the data is still there when something goes wrong — and if it can be restored quickly enough to matter. As backup volumes grow, teams need more capacity without losing control of recovery performance or cost. S3-compatible backup storage gives teams another way to handle that pressure. It uses the familiar Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) API model without requiring backup data to live in Amazon S3 itself.

Application migrations stall for a predictable reason: the demanding part is rarely the application code itself. It is the infrastructure around it: the deployment logic, pipeline, and environment configuration that has to be rebuilt. That surrounding work is what turns a migration into a multi-month project, and it is why teams stay on infrastructure that no longer serves them. Upsun Cloud reduces migration to a much smaller task.

If you run your service desk on ConnectWise PSA, it's already the system of record for almost everything that matters. Tickets, agreements, configurations, projects, time entries, it's all in there. What it doesn't give you is an easy way to put that data next to the rest of your stack, your RMM, your security tooling, your backup platform, so you can look at a client and see the whole picture rather than one system at a time.

Summary: Jean-Jérôme Schmidt-Soisson, marketing lead at VictoriaMetrics, shows that open source and marketing are not opposites. Open source itself can be a powerful growth engine through trust, community, content, documentation, and discoverability. The article explains VictoriaMetrics’ pull-based marketing strategy, anchored in open-source values, to support adoption and business growth. This is our second article on the relationship between open source and marketing.

It is common to find two organizations running the same platform, staffed by people of similar skill, operating under comparable budgets, and arriving at completely different relationships with the technology they depend on. For enterprise IT teams, this often shows up in how they manage platform releases, integrations, upgrades, and ongoing maintenance.

The way software gets built is changing faster than at any point in the last decade, and the software supply chain has to keep up. A year ago at swampUp, we introduced JFrog Fly: the first agentic repository, serving as a fast, AI-native environment to build what a modern, agentic developer workflow could look like, unconstrained by the shape of the enterprise stack. Today, we’re bringing what we learned back home.

Telemetry streams carry the unit metrics behind every cost-per-unit number you report. Now each one can say in plain language what it measures. You can call a stream whatever you want to: “MCP tool calls” or “Checkout transactions” or “Documents processed.” Spaces, capitals, and punctuation all work, and you can change the name whenever the metric’s purpose gets clearer. The identifier the pipeline uses stays exactly where it is.

There is a public record of every TLS certificate ever issued for your domain, and anyone can search it. Most people who run infrastructure have never heard of these certificate transparency logs. So I read our own log, and here’s what anyone could learn about CertKit from them.