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Learn how to get instant observability into your Kubernetes cluster by installing the Speedscale operator and proxymock tool. In this step-by-step tutorial, we walk you through setting up the operator to capture live network traffic (including encrypted traffic, API calls, and database calls) without complex instrumentation or manual configuration.

Since Playwright 1.59, the new "trace" command makes your test traces fully accessible in the terminal. All plain text, and your agent will love it. And if you're running Playwright with Checkly, our AI agent, Rocky, already reads your traces and delivers root-cause analysis before you even start digging.

Vulnerability scanners tell you what's wrong with what you already pulled. They don't stop a malicious package from entering your environment in the first place. A private registry with minimum release age policies adds that missing layer – packages newer than two or three days don't reach developers until the industry has had time to identify and remove malicious ones from public registries. Active campaigns like TeamPCP are targeting npm, PyPI, and Maven Central right now. The gate has to come before the scan. Cloudsmith provides that gate.

Connect Spike to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible tool and manage incidents through natural language. Ask your AI what's critical. Tell it to acknowledge an outage. Have it build an on-call schedule. Spike is now wherever you work.

Coming into IT leadership can be a drastic change, with a multitude of different responsibilities, new skills to learn, and a whole organization looking to you to make decisions on the kind of technology that will keep them running. Unfortunately, it also means that even though you’re the most connected person in the company, you can also be the loneliest. IT leaders face unique issues that other leaders in the organization don’t.