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Why Aging Networks Put Critical Infrastructure at Risk-and What It Means for Us

Jan 12, 2026 By Joni Roberts In Ribbon
Everywhere around us, technology is evolving at lightning speed, yet the networks which underpin these capabilities often lag behind. This gap creates vulnerabilities that can impact everything from energy grids to emergency services. Forbes recently explored this urgent issue in an article featuring insights from our CEO Bruce McClelland, who shared an informed perspective on why modernization is essential, not optional. I encourage you to take a few minutes to read the full article.
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Easy Guide for Connecting Redis to a Grafana Data Source

Jan 12, 2026 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
Redis is a widely used in-memory data store, commonly deployed as a cache, session store, message broker, or fast key-value database. Because Redis often sits on the critical path of an application, having visibility into its behavior (memory usage, client connections, command throughput, cache efficiency) is essential for troubleshooting and performance tuning.
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Applying Feature Flag Context To Your OpenTelemetry Spans | Harness Blog

Jan 12, 2026 By Austin Lai In Harness
Integrating feature flag context into OpenTelemetry traces enhances observability by recording flag states as span attributes, making it easier to analyze how specific flags influence application behavior. When you toggle a feature flag, you're changing the behavior of your application; sometimes, in subtle ways that are hard to detect through logs or metrics alone. By adding feature flag attributes directly to spans, you can make these changes observable at the trace level.
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Automate flaky test fixes with the Bits AI Dev Agent and Test Optimization

Jan 12, 2026 By Eric Metaj In Datadog
Flaky tests are a significant source of inefficiency that impacts many engineering teams. Along with failing your build, they interrupt your entire development flow, generate excessive CI/CD noise, and, critically, compromise developer trust in the test suite itself. Datadog Test Optimization enables you to manage test suites at scale by pinpointing the flakiest tests, analyzing their history across hundreds of runs, and automatically surfacing the root cause.
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How we built an AI SRE agent that investigates like a team of engineers

Jan 12, 2026 By Daniel Shan In Datadog
We built Bits AI SRE to help engineers investigate and solve production incidents, one of the most difficult aspects of operating distributed systems today. As environments grow more dynamic and complex, resolving issues becomes more challenging. Failures now span more services, involve noisier signals, and encompass larger volumes of telemetry data, making it hard for on-call engineers to find root causes quickly. Today, Bits AI SRE is already helping teams decrease time to resolution by up to 95%.
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Amazon S3 Storage Costs Made Simple and A Cheaper Alternative

Jan 12, 2026 By Internxt In Internxt
AWS storage is often a top choice for enterprises due to its reliability and power to store large amounts of data for easy access. However, businesses may find it difficult to navigate and understand S3 storage costs, having to manage different storage classes, data transfer fees, and potential hidden charges. Without fully understanding AWS S3 storage costs, the pricing structure can become overwhelming and cost companies more than initially intended.
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Heroku Monitoring Add-ons 2026 and Hosted Graphite

Jan 12, 2026 By MetricFire Blogger In MetricFire
Monitoring performance of Heroku applications helps improve user experience. This blog post covers Heroku monitoring add-ons and explores why Hosted Graphite is the best choice in 2026. We'll discuss the benefits and setup process of the Hosted Graphite add-on. We'll also discuss future trends in Heroku monitoring.
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Production readiness review checklist & best practices

Jan 12, 2026 By Cortex In Cortex
Modern software systems are more distributed, complex, and business-critical than they've ever been. A single misconfigured service can take down an entire platform. Teams are aiming for production readiness, which is the state where your services are secure, reliable, observable, and owned. Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs) are one of the key mechanisms to get there.
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Why Reliable Payment Processing Is More Important Than Speed

Why Reliable Payment Processing Is More Important Than Speed

Jan 12, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
If you shop online, you've been seduced by the promise of speed at least a dozen times, and it's the same thing with your customers. "3-second checkout!" sounds incredible, doesn't it? For payment companies, this is what they usually lead with, but you should know that they don't put everything in the ad. Sure, their system is fast, but what about the fact that it dropped 2 orders just this morning and flagged another as fraudulent for literally no reason?
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Technology forecasting should have better tools

Technology forecasting should have better tools

Jan 12, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Technology moves in waves: breakthroughs, hype, adoption, disappointment, then quiet infrastructure building. The challenge is that traditional forecasting often lags behind reality. Reports are published after the market has moved, expert opinions can conflict, and social media trends can distort what feels important. This is why the idea of a technologies prediction market is compelling. It offers a mechanism for turning diverse beliefs into a live probability signal that updates as new information appears.
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