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3 things you can do to get closer to five nines

Oct 2, 2025 By Andre Newman In Gremlin

5 minutes. That’s how much downtime some of the world’s largest enterprises will tolerate. For most organizations, five nines (99.999%) of availability sounds like a pipedream. But the trick to increasing availability isn’t massive infrastructure spending or complex system redesigns. All it takes are three key practices that any team can adopt and implement. In this post, we’ll present these practices and how we implement them at Gremlin.

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Frog-Proof Security: Streamlining The Sec In DevSecOps

Oct 2, 2025 By JFrog In JFrog

What’s in store for Software Supply Chain security in 2026? With the types of software entering organizations ever-changing, and the volume ever-increasing, DevSecOps teams are facing new, and complex questions at macro and micro levels: How can teams effectively control and curate what enters systems? How can remediation be accelerated, while ensuring accuracy? How will the rising use of AI impact our threat landscape and can DevOps and Security teams truly share ownership of this emerging reality without adding friction?

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Future-Proofing Your Dev Team for AI

Oct 1, 2025 By GitKraken In GitKraken

Jeff Hollan (Snowflake Director of Product) gave a talk called "Building Adaptive Teams for AI" that addresses something we're all navigating: how career growth works when teams are adapting to AI workflows.

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Why Now Is The Time To Put In A 2026 Budget Request For Cost Management Software

Oct 1, 2025 By Emily Allen In CloudZero

As the Senior Manager of Finance & Accounting here at CloudZero, and with a career in FP&A that includes tenures at large public companies, I’ve spent a significant amount of time observing the interactions between the folks who plan the company’s budget and those who spend it. While engineering and operations teams focus on the execution side, my team ensures that the company has the resources required to make each endeavor a success.

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Introduction to Facts in Puppet

Oct 1, 2025 By Perforce Puppet In Puppet

Unlock the full potential of your Puppet infrastructure with a deep dive into Puppet Facts. This guide explains how Puppet uses facts to gather real-time data, making your code more dynamic, adaptable, and aware of the systems it manages. Discover the different types of facts, from simple structured data to secure trusted facts, and learn how to leverage them for enhanced visibility and standardization across your entire estate.

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OTel Naming Best Practices for Spans, Attributes, and Metrics

Oct 1, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9

An incident’s in progress. Services are slow, customers are frustrated, and your dashboards… look fine. At least, until you search for payment metrics and get 47 different names for the same signal. Suddenly, the real issue isn’t latency — it’s inconsistency. The OpenTelemetry project recently published a three-part series on naming conventions to solve exactly this problem.

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Middle Mile Networks: What They Are and How to Use Them

Oct 1, 2025 By Mitch Simcoe In Ribbon

Whether it’s streaming video, powering remote work, or supporting smart technologies, the ability to connect local users to the global internet is essential. But behind the scenes, a key infrastructure layer ensures that this digital experience runs smoothly: the middle mile. Middle mile networks serve as the critical bridge between the internet’s backbone and the local networks that deliver service to homes, businesses, and institutions.

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Easiest Way to Ship Docker & Nginx Logs to Loki with Promtail

Oct 1, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire

Effective monitoring catches problems before users do, and with Promtail, Loki, and LogQL, it’s a lightweight, approachable option for any DevOps team. This guide shows how to monitor Docker itself (pull failures, restarts, health flaps) so you’ve got a baseline on container runtime health.

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Code coverage standards for a Next.js project using CircleCI and Coveralls

Oct 1, 2025 By Daniel Efe In CircleCI

An essential part of software development, testing helps catch bugs and errors early, improves software quality, and ultimately prevents costly issues from being deployed to production. The effectiveness of software testing will remain uncertain until it can be measured and that is where code coverage comes in. Code coverage is a metric that tells developers what portion of their codebase is executed when specific tests are run.

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Why Jenkins might cost you 10x more than Bitbucket Pipelines

Oct 1, 2025 By Edmund Munday In Atlassian

Any company still running their own CI/CD, such as Jenkins, is paying a price. The question is which one: Each of these is extremely costly, and yet many software teams still host and run their own CI/CD for two reasons: tools like Jenkins are cheap or free, and hosting Jenkins on an AWS EC2 instance is often cheaper per minute than SaaS CI/CD services like Bitbucket Pipelines. Both reasons are true, but they’re also a trap.

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