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Replaying traffic is a core tool in your toolbox when you need to reproduce a tricky bug or validate how your app behaves. Traffic replay is especially valuable for testing complex software applications that rely on APIs and microservices, where integration and functionality must be thoroughly validated.

A few years ago I was on call during the Super Bowl. At the time I was working for an observability vendor and one of our customers had an outage caused by a surge in user traffic. But our monitoring system didn’t have enough data to know what went wrong and I sat on a call for 2 hours painfully listening to them spinning up more servers and trying to catch up with the user load.

The world of cloud computing is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As AI continues to evolve and improve, it's becoming increasingly clear that access to advanced AI infrastructure is crucial for businesses to remain competitive. During Civo Navigate London 2025, Josh Mesout spoke about the importance of of AI for the future of cloud computing and how Civo is working to democratize access to advanced AI infrastructure.

Every IT operator anywhere on the team ladder dreads this feeling: another day, another flood of service desk tickets. Like cockroaches, they come in waves and they’re repetitive. Worse still, they distract your teams from higher-value work. Ironically for the amount of disruption they can cause, most of these tickets are not complex incidents or novel challenges. They’re the same everyday IT headaches your enterprise has been dealing with for years.

The siren song of building a custom, internal cloud cost management platform is enticing. Many brilliant engineering teams are convinced they can come up with a bespoke solution that perfectly fits their needs. They look at their company’s unique infrastructure and decide they can DIY cost management without having to rely on an external vendor. Believe me, I get the temptation.

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka has landed, marking the final interim release before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and it’s a bold one. Interim releases have always been the proving grounds for features that define the next LTS, and this cycle is no exception.