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Scrapers Take Down GitHub: December 11 Outage Timeline

Dec 12, 2025 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
On December 11, 2025, GitHub experienced intermittent disruptions that frustrated users across the globe. Developers everywhere started seeing random errors, 503s, unicorns, and CI pipeline failures. Very quickly it became clear something was wrong, even though GitHub’s status page still said ALL SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL. After the incident was over, GitHub published a postmortem that revealed the cause: scrapers. Automated tools hit GitHub with enough traffic to overwhelm key backend systems.
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devart

TOP MySQL ODBC Drivers 2026

Dec 12, 2025 By Rosemary Asufi In Devart
ODBC MySQL drivers have become a critical layer in the performance, stability, and scalability of modern analytics systems. And the broader market confirms that shift. Forecasts now put the ODBC market segment at USD 4.38 billion by 2029, clear proof that this once-overlooked layer is becoming a priority inside enterprise data stacks. But what many teams still underestimate is the spread in quality of these tools. While ODBC drivers serve the same purpose, they do not all deliver the same results.
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QuickBooks to Power BI: Devart's Alternative to Microsoft's Deprecated Connector

Dec 12, 2025 By Rosemary Asufi In Devart
Microsoft officially pulled the plug on the native QuickBooks Power BI connector, triggering immediate reporting disruptions for many businesses. Automated refresh stopped working, dashboards went stale, and financial reporting pipelines that once ran in the background began to fail without warning. This changed daily finance operations. Finance teams were forced back into manual CSV exports, delayed updates, and fragile reporting workflows.
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Agentic AI demands a new data architecture #ai #telemetry

Dec 12, 2025 By Cribl In Cribl
Clint Sharp explains why traditional schema-on-read systems cannot handle the query loads of the future. Agentic telemetry requires a 360-degree view, but structuring data only when you read it is too slow for AI-driven workloads. The solution is using LLMs to drive the cost of building parsers to near zero. Tools like Copilot Editor allow teams to map data to OCSF instantly, effectively building factories of parsers to handle the scale of agentic AI.
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last9

OTel Updates: OpenTelemetry Proposes Changes to Stability, Releases, and Semantic Conventions

Dec 12, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Over the past year, the Governance Committee ran user interviews and surveys with organizations deploying OpenTelemetry at scale. A few patterns came up consistently: Stability levels aren't always obvious. When you install an OTel distribution, some components might be experimental or alpha without clear markers. This makes it harder to evaluate what's production-ready. Instrumentation libraries sometimes wait on semantic conventions.
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rollbar

Using AI + Rollbar's Session Replay to Understand Complex Errors

Dec 12, 2025 By Rollbar In Rollbar
Front‑end bugs are notoriously hard to reproduce. By the time an error shows up in your monitoring tool, the most important context is already gone: what the user actually did. Session replay helps—but only if someone has the time and patience to scrub through recordings, correlate events, and form a hypothesis. That’s where Rollbar’s MCP server, paired with an AI agent like Github Copilot, changes the game.
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Elephant in the Room, Episode 2: Working with Feature Flags, Read Replicas, and Postgres Analytics

Dec 12, 2025 By Aiven In Aiven
Welcome to “Elephant in the Room – Presented by Aiven.” In this live series, we dig into the real-world challenges developers face when building modern applications on PostgreSQL, the elephant everyone depends on but few fully leverage. Episode 2: Join Jay Miller, Staff Product Advocate at Aiven, and special guest Alexis Roberson – senior developer educator, and feature flag enthusiast – as they explore how developers can use feature flags to ship faster, reduce risk, and create better user experiences with PostgreSQL-backed applications.
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haproxy

Fresh from AWS re:Invent: Supercharging HAProxy Community with AWS-LC Performance Packages

Dec 12, 2025 By Ron Northcutt In HAProxy
The timing couldn’t have been better. Last week, the tech world descended on Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent. It was the perfect venue to talk about cloud infrastructure, scale, and the future of application delivery. While we enjoyed talking shop at our booth, we didn't just bring swag and demos; we brought a significant performance improvement for our open-source community.
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