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Your Internet usually keeps disconnecting because of one of five things: a weak or congested Wi-Fi signal, a failing modem, router or cable, an overloaded firewall, a device-level setting or driver, or a problem on your ISP’s line or network. To fix it, first find where the drop happens: on one device, across your LAN, or past your firewall. “The Internet keeps droppin” is one of the most common tickets IT teams get, and one of the hardest to close.

What happens to transaction posting when statement traffic gets expensive? That’s the question a bank’s platform team actually needs answered before a busy month-end. It’s also a question most load tests can’t ask, because they turn one dial for the whole recording. Statements get heavier, posting gets heavier, and the average latency across both looks fine right up until customers can’t move money.

You can now receive a webhook notification whenever someone submits an outage report on your StatusGator status page. We’ve also added event selection, so you can choose exactly which types of notifications your webhook receives.

How Microsoft's SharePoint file archive policy works (preview): New-SPOFileArchivePolicy, last-access rules, What-If mode, exclusions, reports and limits.

MCP server monitoring guide: spans, metrics and logs to record for tool calls, why failed tools look healthy, and how to trace requests from client to server. Sejal Pandey works on content and growth at Last9, writing about observability, reliability, and SRE practices.

TL;DR Part 0 of a three-part series on building a documentation assistant with Aiven. This part gives you the vocabulary. Part 1 is the architecture. Part 2 builds the thing. Almost everything written about large language models explains how models get built. Very little explains what happens the other billion times, when a finished model sits there answering questions. That second thing is called inference, and it is where practically all of the engineering work actually lives.

FastAPI released 0.146.0, 0.147.0, and 0.148.0 between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning (UTC), and each one is labeled a breaking change. None of them will crash your app on startup. They change what values your endpoints receive, which is the kind of change that passes CI and then shows up as odd data a week later. At Scout Monitoring, we monitor a lot of FastAPI apps, and a loosely pinned fastapi dependency is the most common way these releases will arrive.