Introducing Cycle Spotlight: Your New Go-To for DevOps and Software Engineering Insights! We are thrilled to announce the launch of Cycle Spotlight, a new short series dedicated to delivering quick, insightful conversations with engineering leaders and industry experts. This series will be hosted by Konner Bemis! For our first episode, we'll be featuring Jake Warner, our CEO and Founder as he shares the reasoning behind the start of Cycle.

Why is EDR overtaking AV as the standard of protection for MSPs? Hear the answer directly from N-able Chief Security Officer Dave MacKinnon in our latest interview.

Reliability is everyone's problem—not just the SRE team's. "It's not just the SRE's problem. It's everybody's problem. So the SREs, they can run point and they can help report and help us understand, but we also have to hold the teams accountable. Are the teams investing time in reliability? Are they finding and fixing issues? Are we giving them space? And I think that comes back to, does the business see the benefit and do we have a good way of quantifying the benefit to the business?"—Kolton Andrus, Gremlin CTO.

Utilizing the true potential of data streaming is key to business success. In this Data (R)evolution episode, we're joined by Josep Prat and Filip Yonov to dive into the transformative features of Apache Kafka and its evolving role in data architecture. They discuss the critical importance of collaboration and feedback in enhancing Kafka's capabilities, the future of "lake house" technology, exciting updates from the Open Source Program Office (OSPO), and the importance of Kafka's readiness to support evolving data formats—making it a backbone for modern data ecosystems.

Come with us to delve deeper into the story behind ServiceNow’s humble beginnings. In this episode, we had the pleasure of meeting with founder Fred Luddy to hear about his upbringing and childhood job, and what inspired the creation of ServiceNow. He even shows us the first-ever ServiceNow office – a total fixer-upper. One of the original employees, Mark O’Donnell, shares his insight into the original development and doubts that the company had to face. “Nothing’s impossible, we can build anything,” says O’Donnell.

#kubernetes helps teams of all sizes optimize their #microservices architecture by enabling seamless automated containerized app deployment, easy scalability, and efficient operations. But Kubernetes also has a reputation for being difficult to learn and complex to manage, and when you’re new to something, it’s hard to know what you don’t know.

In the world of software development, caching is a crucial yet complex component. What happens when one of the most popular caching systems, Redis, changes its license, sending shockwaves through the community? And how does a company pivot to not one but two solutions to ensure high-performance data management? Today's discussion dives deep into one of the most critical and often-overlooked components of the software industry—caching.

In this conversation with Sephora's Senior Performance Engineer, Diana Manulik discusses how she uses Speedscale and WireMock to generate mocks much faster.

Scaling incident management processes can present massive challenges for an organization as large and complex as Netflix. And for Netflix, whose brand has become synonymous with dependability, there’s a lot at stake. Since its introduction to a specific set of Netflix teams, incident.io has been organically adopted far and wide across Netflix Engineering, highlighting just how indispensable and impactful the tool has become.

In this talk, Utsav and James from Builder.ai discuss their journey in scaling their composable software platform. Builder.ai empowers users, from entrepreneurs to enterprises, to build and innovate without dealing with technical complexities. The focus of the talk is on their Developer Service platform and the integration of Grafana Cloud for monitoring and observability.