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How Does a Domain Protect Critical IT Infrastructures?

A digital address routes traffic and anchors trust. The domain is far more than a convenient label that users type into a browser, since it carries out essential functions that keep critical systems connected, authenticated, and protected from harm. For organisations running mission-critical operations, it functions as a gatekeeper that determines whether legitimate users reach a service and whether attackers are turned away at the door.

Shopify outage on October 28, 2026: 504 gateway errors Shopify never acknowledged

Shopify merchants hit 504 Gateway Timeout errors on October 28, 2026, in a brief outage that Shopify never publicly acknowledged. For about 24 minutes, the Shopify admin and pages failed to load with “server not responding” and 504 errors for users across several countries. StatusGator detected the outage at 15:27 UTC, one minute after the first user report, even though it never appeared on Shopify’s status page.

AI observability: Why traditional monitoring isn't enough for AI systems

Traditional monitoring watches four things: whether the system is up (availability), how fast it responds (latency), how often it errors (error rate), and how hard the underlying resources are working (resource utilization). This system works because software is deterministic: the same input produces the same output, so a deviation means something broke, and it announces itself as a timeout.

Top tips: What happens when boredom disappears?

Top Tips is a weekly column where we highlight what's trending in the tech world and share practical ways to stay ahead. This week, let's look at what happens when we fill every spare moment with digital content, why a little boredom might be useful, and how to make room for it in our screen-filled lives. Imagine you're waiting for your coffee. It's going to take three minutes, so you reach for your phone.

Identity Management and BTP: An Unexpected Requirement

Ask an SAP Basis or security team how they control access to their ERP, and you’ll get a confident answer. User master records, PFCG roles, firefighter IDs, separation of duties policies, and an audit someone reviews regularly. Decades of audit findings have hardened those controls. Ask the same team who can deploy code to their BTP subaccounts, and the answer is far from so confident.

Prove Your AI Gains, Then Improve Them | GitKraken Workshop

Everyone feels faster with AI, but almost nobody can prove it. In this hands-on GitKraken workshop, Jeremy Castile, Scott Ferguson, and Justin Roberts show you how to get a real read on your AI agents: what they actually cost, what they produce, and whether they’re making your team faster, then how to take that data and improve it. You’ll see how to read an agentic workflow across adoption, autonomy, activity, cost, and outcomes in real time, how to spot where you’re overspending, and how to run and right-size multiple agents so you scale your agent work without scaling the bill.

Sentry under 8 mins

If you've never used Sentry, this is the short version. In under eight minutes, we walk through what it does, what it captures, and where to go next. Sentry is an application monitoring platform. It collects errors, logs, timings, and replays, and ties them together with tracing, so you can go from "something broke" to the line of code that broke it without opening six tabs. Here's what we cover: On data: out of the box, Sentry scrubs things like passwords, tokens, and credit card numbers. You decide what else gets collected, and you can choose US or EU storage.

What Anthropic's 6:1 AI Work Ratio Means for Every Business

Anthropic's AI agents are logging 6x more hours than the humans directing them. Is this the beginning of a fundamental shift in how businesses operate? New data from Anthropic reveals how AI agents are transforming the workforce, accelerating software development, and changing what employees actually do every day. But the biggest story isn't just AI productivity. It's what happens next.