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Bitbucket's new look: user experience and navigation updates coming soon

We’re giving Bitbucket a fresh new look and more streamlined navigation as part of Atlassian’s broader visual system journey. Teams and workflows have improved, and Bitbucket is changing with them. Our goal is to make it faster to find your work, clearer to understand what’s happening, and more enjoyable to use every day—without disrupting what you already know and love. This update aligns Bitbucket with Atlassian’s modern, unified design, and will launch in early 2026.

Your AI Needs Git Context. Meet GitKraken MCP

Give your AI-assistants and agents the repo context they need with GitKraken MCP. Now bundled with GitLens for IDEs. Give your agents full Git context, streamline decisions, and work faster across VS Code, Cursor, and your favorite AI tools. See how MCP connects your repos, providers, and Git into one smart, seamless layer if Git intelligence your agents and you can use. Perfect for developers building with AI. Perfect for teams who want clarity, speed, and zero context loss.

Managing cloud infrastructure with AI assistant and Upsun MCP server

Artificial intelligence is changing the way we execute our everyday operations. AI assistants are incredibly intelligent; they can write code, explain complex concepts, and answer any question you throw at them. However, they can't execute actions on their own. If you ask your AI assistant to “create a backup of my database,” it may provide you with clear instructions, run the CLI commands directly or in some cases, even trigger actions through connected agent workflows.

Reliability at Scale: A Conversation with DevOps Leader Ivan Battimiello

For more than a decade, Ivan Battimiello has been building and scaling distributed engineering systems across Europe and the United States. With experience ranging from game development to full-stack engineering and DevOps leadership, he has led operational transformations for global teams, implemented modern reliability frameworks, and introduced advanced automation practices that dramatically reduced system failures.

Stop tool sprawl - Welcome to Terraform/OpenTofu support

Provisioning cloud resources shouldn’t require a second stack of tools. With Qovery’s new Terraform and OpenTofu support, you can now define and deploy your infrastructure right alongside your applications. Declaratively, securely, and in one place. No external runners. No glue code. No tool sprawl.

Data control with CivoStack Enterprise: Beyond the air-gap debate

When an organization talks about sovereignty it is usually about where its data lives, who can touch it and how it is protected. Adding air‑gap to the discussion often turns the conversation into a binary: either the system is completely cut off from the outside world or it isn’t. In practice the reality sits somewhere in between.

How To Migrate Away From DogStatsD Using Telegraf

Datadog is a popular monitoring platform, and one of its key components is DogStatsD which is a customized extension of the original open-source StatsD protocol. DogStatsD adds powerful features like tagging, histograms, and distributions, but it also introduces vendor lock-in. This is because DogStatsD metrics follow a specific wire format that many other monitoring platforms do not natively support.

Get 97% faster feedback with Smarter Testing by CircleCI

Fast feedback is the foundation of software delivery at scale. Long build and test cycles break developer focus, turning simple changes into momentum-killing pauses. Studies show that recovering from these interruptions can take twenty minutes or longer. Multiply that by dozens of commits per day and context‑switching time quickly turns into days of lost productivity.