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Live Call Routing - Getting started

Live Call Routing is a direct line that connects incoming calls to on-call engineers. It captures human-reported incidents that monitoring tools might miss—closing the loop between automated alerts and real-world observations so nothing falls through the cracks. It helps you respond to critical incidents faster by eliminating manual call routing, reducing response times from minutes to seconds.

Top Terraform Alternatives And Competitors To Know

A few weeks ago, a lead DevOps engineer at a fast-growing SaaS company hit an unexpected wall. “It used to just work… until we scaled,” the lead noted after their Terraform setup began buckling under the weight of a growing cloud footprint. Another chimed in: “We’re spending thousands on infrastructure every week, but we can’t trace it back to who deployed what, or why.” Sound familiar? You’re not alone.

How to Build Resilient Networks for AI Production Workloads

Production AI needs a network that can keep up. Learn why private, scalable connectivity is the key in our webinar recap with Vultr. AI is no longer a proof-of-concept hiding in a developer lab. It’s a full-fledged production workload, and it’s hungry for data. But as enterprises move their AI strategies from theory to reality, they’re hitting a wall that isn’t about algorithms or processing power – it’s about the network.

Lost Your Work? This Git Trick Saves The Day!

Ever reset too far? Deleted a branch you needed? Thought you lost a commit forever? In this episode of Wait… Git Can Do That?, we explore git reflog — Git’s local time machine. You’ll learn how to: View every local Git action — even the messy ones Recover unreachable commits Navigate using HEAD@{n} Just remember: it’s local, it’s time-limited, and it’s seriously underrated. Subscribe for more Git features you didn’t know you needed.

Demo: Running a Patch Job with Puppet Advanced Patching

With Puppet, patching is faster and easier than ever. Watch this video to learn how to set up and run a patch job with Advanced Patching in Puppet Enterprise Advanced. Puppet's Barr Iserloth and Liam Sexton cover activating Advanced Patching, creating a patch group, and running a patch job from the Puppet Enterprise console. Highlights include the easy-to-use patching GUI, custom patch groups for cross-OS patching, streamlined scheduling that obeys your defined maintenance and blackout windows, and reporting that shows you where each patch was applied.

Automating High CPU Utilization Remediation with Resolve

High CPU utilization alerts can overwhelm IT teams and disrupt user productivity—especially in virtualized environments. In this video, see how Resolve automates the end-to-end remediation process for sustained CPU spikes. From detecting alerts and creating incidents to gathering host data, verifying VM configurations, and dynamically adding vCPUs—watch how Resolve eliminates manual effort and speeds up incident resolution.

Jaeger Metrics: Internal Operations and Service Performance Monitoring

You're monitoring a microservices-based system. Alerts trigger when response times exceed 2 seconds. But when you open Jaeger, you're faced with thousands of traces. Identifying which service or operation is responsible becomes time-consuming. Jaeger metrics help reduce this friction by exposing aggregated telemetry. Instead of scanning individual traces, you get service-level and operation-level performance metrics, latency, throughput, and error rates that highlight where the issue lies.

IT Process Improvement Is Great... If You Can Find Someone to Build It

IT leaders know the value of process improvement. Smoother onboarding, faster incident resolution, streamlined change management, etc. It’s not for lack of ideas that IT teams fall short; it’s almost always a lack of bandwidth. Because of that, most process improvement efforts stall before they scale. Great ideas get captured in diagrams, Confluence pages, and strategy decks, but they rarely make it into production. Why?