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How Exchange Uptime and API Reliability Impact Crypto Trading Success

Crypto trading is fast-paced, data-dependent, and highly sensitive to system performance. Yet many new investors focus on fees, coin variety, or user experience long before examining a platform's uptime or API reliability. In reality, the technical stability of an exchange is one of the most important factors influencing trade execution, risk management, and overall user safety. Understanding how uptime and backend reliability affect your outcomes can help you choose the right platform and protect yourself during periods of high market volatility.

What I Learned From Building an eBPF-Based Traffic Capture Application

I just finished building Speedscale’s eBPF-based component to capture and analyze network traffic in a Kubernetes cluster, and it forced me to confront some uncomfortable truths about observability. While there were certainly some challenges along the way, particularly in dealing with Go applications, the approach was relatively straightforward.

3 Questions I Expect You to Ask Me

As a product specialist, I’ve had countless conversations about network observability. I’ve seen the good, the bad, and the downright confusing. The market is flooded with vendors, all claiming to have the magic bullet for your network woes. Everywhere I go, the story is the same. The neat and tidy world of the on-premises data center is gone, replaced by a sprawling environment that stretches across multiple clouds, your own facilities, and out to the edge.

Back to the Basics: Why IDAM Still Rules in a Zero-Trust World

Cybersecurity in 2026 is paradoxical. Organizations are spending more on security than ever—Gartner projects global cybersecurity investment to surpass $215 billion this year, a 14% increase over 2025 (Gartner Security Spending Forecast 2026). Yet, data breaches remain relentless. The culprit isn’t always cutting-edge malware or state-sponsored APTs. More often than not, it’s the oldest weakness in the book: unauthorized access.

CI/CD for Go Microservices on Scaleway Kubernetes with CircleCI

Development teams depend on microservices to build, deploy, and scale features independently. Microservices have become the backbone of modern, scalable applications. Scaleway’s managed Kubernetes service (Kubernetes Kapsule) offers a powerful, cost-effective platform for running containerized workloads in the cloud. It’s a great fit for startups and solo engineers who want to focus on shipping features, not managing infrastructure.

How Self-Service Workflows Transform Developer Productivity

Forget the ticket queues and slow handoffs. Harness Workflows let developers spin up services, environments, and everyday ops tasks in minutes. It’s self-service that’s fast, safe, and actually fun to use. A developer once told me, half-joking and half-frustrated, “I spend more time waiting than coding.” It wasn’t the dramatic kind of waiting, like an hour-long debugging session or a blocked deployment at midnight.

Sage AI: Dashboard, events, knowledge base

It's starting to take shape. We have a dashboard, we're collecting some metrics, and I'm getting a daily briefing every morning. Also, I have an event log where all the events are going into (the spine of the system), and there's a knowledge base which consists of a GitHub repository which is vectorized and indexed. Its first use is adding context to Herald, the agent that sends me the morning briefing. More details to come.

Automate Weekly Rollbar Reports with Zapier + Google Sheets

Product Managers thrive on clarity. But when it comes to understanding application errors and trends, Rollbar’s rich occurrence data can sometimes feel overwhelming. With AI by Zapier + Google Sheets, you can turn this into a completely automated reporting pipeline—one that generates weekly reports of Rollbar occurrences, organizes them in Sheets, and arms PMs with insights they can use to guide roadmap decisions, reduce risk, and improve user experience.

Building dbRosetta Part 5: We Need an API

Because I don’t want to have to fight with our support team (they’re awesome, but busy) I decided that, initially, I’m going to host dbRosetta at ScaryDBA.com. I have full control of the web site, and I won’t be breaking Redgate Software entirely if I accidently do something silly. Before starting the process of developing our next prompt, or set of prompts, I discussed the project with CoPilot. We agreed to break the next part into two pieces.

SSL Certificate Management: A Complete Guide to Monitoring SSL Expiry, Validity & Certificate Health

Managing SSL certificates is essential for maintaining trust, security, and uptime across any website or online service. While many people think SSL certificate management refers to renewing or issuing certificates, one of the most critical aspects,often overlooked,is monitoring certificates for expiry, validity, and unexpected changes. That’s the area where monitoring platforms provide their highest value.