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Refactor Safely with AI: Using MCP and Traffic Replay to Validate Code Changes

So as software engineers using AI coding assistants, we’re quickly learning of a new anti-pattern: Hallucinated Success. You give your agent (e.g. Claude via terminal or various IDE code assistants) the command “refactor the billing controller.” The agent happily complies, churning out nice clean code. The agent even goes so far as to write a new unit test suite that passes at 100%. You integrate it. Your test suites pass. Your production code breaks. Why?

Exposure Management vs. Vulnerability Management: Which Delivers Real Risk Reduction?

Vulnerability management has served organizations and the cybersecurity industry for years. It is a capable practice that has helped companies defend their attack surface and prevent threat actors from exploiting vulnerabilities. But technology and IT infrastructure have evolved. Vulnerability management no longer can meet the challenges that come with this evolution.

How to Choose the Right API Monitoring Tool for Production Environments

APIs are no longer just technical connectors between systems; they are production infrastructure. Customer-facing applications, partner integrations, payment flows, and internal microservices all depend on APIs working correctly, consistently, and at scale. When an API fails, the impact is rarely limited to a single endpoint; it can disrupt user journeys, compromise revenue, and breach service-level agreements (SLAs).

To change your engineering culture, start by asking your team what sucks

Most engineering leaders have a very known and very annoying "normal error." It's the log entry or deployment glitch that has been around so long that it is simply accepted as part of the status quo. Jeff Schnitter, a Solution Architect at Cortex, describes this as a form of organizational Stockholm syndrome. This mindset is unsustainable for several reasons.

Getting Started with Splunk Dashboards

Splunk is a leading platform for searching, monitoring, and analyzing logs across IT tools and systems. Well-known for its ability to handle vast volumes of log and event data, Splunk empowers organizations to gain real-time visibility into their systems and operations. However, while Splunk offers rich telemetry and analytics, its dashboards can sometimes become complex - making it difficult to surface the most critical insights quickly. That’s where SquaredUp can elevate the experience.

Who should be on-call

There usually isn’t a hard and fast rule about who should be on-call. Teams often look for criteria like seniority, experience, or expertise. While those factors certainly help, they might matter less than you think. It is often more useful to look at whether your processes are ready. When incident responses rely on memory and intuition rather than documentation, even experienced engineers can struggle. They might handle things through internal knowledge that isn’t available to everyone else.

7 Most Efficient Object Storage Products [2026]

While traditional cloud storage is the normal method people use to store, share, sync, and back up their files online, there are many other options available to consider, especially if you want quick access to large amounts of data. For this, many teams consider checking an object storage vendor list to choose the right service to meet this need. Object storage is a cloud storage architecture designed to handle large amounts of unstructured data.