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Building a secure golden path: Cloudsmith x Octopus Deploy webinar

What does it take to build a "Golden Path" that developers actually want to use? In this expert-led webinar, Cloudsmith and Octopus Deploy team up to explore the missing link in your software supply chain: turning artifact creation and management into an automated, trust-backed journey from source to ship.

How to Optimize Your CI/CD Pipeline with AI (CircleCI Chunk Tutorial)

As AI-assisted coding tools increase the amount of code, commits, and builds, optimizing your CI pipeline becomes more important than ever. In this tutorial, we walk through how to use Chunk, CircleCI’s autonomous agent that validates your code at AI speed, to analyze your pipeline history, identify performance bottlenecks, and suggest optimizations to your CI/CD configuration. Chunk leverages critical CI/CD context like build history, test results, and execution data to keep pipelines healthy and moving at AI speed.

Native OpenTelemetry inside Alloy: Now you can get the best of both worlds

We're big proponents of OpenTelemetery, which has quickly become a new unified standard for delivering metrics, logs, traces, and even profiles. It's an essential component of Alloy, our popular telemetry agent, but we're also aware that some users would prefer to have a more "vanilla" OpenTelemetry experience.

6 Key Roles Every DEX Team Needs

Digital employee experience doesn’t fail because of technology. It fails because of operating models. Many digital workplace leaders invest in visibility tools, dashboards, automation capabilities, and sentiment platforms. And yet, months later, they’re still stuck in reactive mode. Tickets are down slightly. Reporting is better. But the organization hasn’t fundamentally shifted.

IT Operations Best Practices: 12 Tips for 2026 Success

Building reliable, high-performing IT operations requires more than good intentions. Learn the 12 best practices that separate reactive teams from proactive ones. What's covered: Common IT operations challenges in growing organizations 12 IT operations best practices you should adopt IT operations maturity model: starter to scaled Key metrics that matter (MTTR, uptime, incident volume) How tools enable best practices at scale.

How to Solve "Cannot Reproduce" Bugs That Cost Support Teams Hours

Support teams frequently face vague customer reports and incomplete data but need to offer fast resolutions autonomously without escalating to developers. In this article, learn how to equip support engineers with tools to diagnose root causes in minutes, increasing self-sufficient issue resolution. We explore eliminating the ‘Reproduction Tax’ for ‘cannot reproduce’ bugs using runtime context to achieve technical certainty at scale.

How to Reduce MTTR with AI-Powered Runtime Diagnosis

Reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) in production systems requires understanding failure behavior in real time. While AI code agents significantly accelerated software development and deployment, incident resolution has remained constrained by incomplete pre-captured telemetry. AI SRE tools improve signal correlation, but MTTR reduction requires runtime-verified diagnosis that confirms execution behavior directly in production systems.

Syncing LDAP Users & Groups with the Icinga Notifications Web API

If you’re running Icinga in a mid-to-large organization, chances are your users and teams are already defined in LDAP or Active Directory. Manually re-creating contacts and contact groups in Icinga Notifications Web is tedious and error-prone, but thankfully, it doesn’t have to be that way. The Icinga Notifications Web REST API gives you everything you need to automate this synchronization. In this post, we’ll walk through how to build a reliable LDAP-to-Icinga sync using the v1 API.

Do Veterinarians Go Oncall? And How Does It Work?

Veterinary clinics typically operate during standard 9–5 business hours. But emergencies don’t follow a schedule. Having the option to reach an on-call veterinarian through a dedicated after-hours emergency line provides peace of mind not only for pet owners, but, believe it or not, for veterinarians as well. So how does ONCALL work for veterinary clinics? Find out more through our Doggy Explain video.#dog.

Introducing Aiven's PG Studio

Aiven's PG Studio is now in Early Availability, allowing you to work with your Aiven for PostgreSQL instances, directly in the Aiven Console. Over the last several decades, PostgreSQL has been steadily climbing its way to the top of popularity amongst DBAs and app developers. With the rise of AI development, PG has become the tool that you can build with at many different development stages. This starts at the home of your data, which is the Aiven for PostgreSQL service page in the Aiven Console.