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How We Protect Our JavaScript Agent, and How to Host It Yourself

On October 29, a web performance script started emptying Polymarket wallets. The script belonged to DebugBear, a performance monitoring service a lot like Request Metrics. Polymarket ran it to measure how fast its site loaded for real visitors. Scott Helme’s analysis shows that cdn.debugbear.com stopped serving DebugBear’s script. An nginx server answered in its place with a script built to drain Polymarket accounts.

The Secure PaaS Alternative: Keep the PaaS Experience, Run It on Your Own Cloud

Railway, Northflank and seven other developer platforms disclosed breaches in October 2026. Here is why a shared PaaS turns one breach into everyone's breach, how Qovery gives you git-push deploys while your apps and data run in your own AWS, GCP, Azure or Scaleway account, and what Qovery still holds. Romaric founded Qovery to make Kubernetes accessible to every engineering team. He writes about platform strategy, developer experience, and the future of cloud infrastructure.

Filebeat filestream configs that pass test config but still fail

A Filebeat config can print Config OK and still exit on start, ship your multiline settings as event data, or send a whole log file to your stack twice. We found most of these while testing the Filebeat configs on our integration pages, then rebuilt each mistake, plus the migration traps around them, on Filebeat 8.19.23 and 9.5.5 to see exactly what happens.

Canvas Visual Thinking: Online Tools That Give Students Room to Map Ideas

Canvas visual thinking means working on an open workspace where you place ideas, link them, and rearrange them until the structure makes sense. Adobe Acrobat's mind map maker gives students a ready-made structure: upload notes or readings as PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, or TXT files, and it maps the main ideas, with no sign-up required.
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Collective IQ: DEX Made Simple, Fast, Without Dedicated Specialists

There is plenty of talk about the value of Digital Employee Experience (DEX). But how can you use it a typical day? Do organizations need a DEX specialist? And what about AI - must you master the art of prompting? During a casual conversation on the road to HDI Support World in Las Vegas, Dave Wagner (Almaden executive) and Bob Kruger (Chief Product Officer) answered these questions directly. Below are their key insights, preserved exactly as they shared them.

The Hidden Bottleneck in SAP Delivery: Why System Refresh Deserves Automation-First Thinking

Most conversations about SAP modernization focus on the big-ticket items: the move to S/4HANA, the cloud migration roadmap, the CI/CD pipeline everyone wants but few have fully built. SAP system refresh rarely makes that list. Instead, system refreshes are treated as plumbing: necessary, unglamorous, and easy to defer until they become a crisis. One organization’s experience shows why that’s a mistake. After completing a major SAP S/4HANA transformation, a large U.S.

Get Started with SolarWinds Avior Agentic AI

Automate IT operations and resolve alert noise faster with Avior by SolarWinds. Managing mission-critical hybrid IT infrastructure requires rapid troubleshooting without sacrificing operational safety. In this video, we introduce SolarWinds Avior—a goal-oriented agentic AI designed to assist IT teams with autonomous root-cause analysis, alert optimization, and infrastructure triage under strict human oversight.

Shipped: Dimension descriptions, right where you pick them

Picking a dimension means choosing from a list of names. But names only tell users so much. “Product,” “Team,” and “Cost Center” mean different things in different orgs. If you’re building a report you have to guess which one fits the question you’re answering.