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haproxy

How Dartmouth avoided vendor lock-in and implemented LBaaS with HAProxy One

Feb 5, 2026 By Daniel Skrba In HAProxy
History is everywhere at Dartmouth College, and while the campus is steeped in tradition, its IT infrastructure can’t afford to get stuck in the past. In an institution where world-class research and undergraduate studies intersect, technology must be fast, invisible, and – above all – reliable. That reliability was put to the test when Dartmouth’s load balancing vendor was acquired twice in five years, as Avi Networks moved to VMware and VMware moved to Broadcom.
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metricfire

Custom Dashboard Creation: Step-by-Step Tutorial

Feb 5, 2026 By MetricFire Team In MetricFire
Creating a custom dashboard is the best way to monitor metrics that matter most to your systems. Tools like MetricFire make this process straightforward by combining hosted Grafana and Graphite, eliminating the need for self-hosted solutions. Here's how you can build dashboards tailored to your needs.
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Komodor

The AI-Empowered Site Reliability Engineer: Automating the Balance of Risk and Velocity

Feb 5, 2026 By Udi Hofesh In Komodor
You might expect an AI-SRE agent to target 100% reliable services, ones that never fail. It turns out that past a certain point, however, increasing reliability is worse for a service (and its users) rather than better! Extreme reliability comes at a non-linear cost: maximizing stability limits how fast new features can be developed, dramatically increases the operational cost, and reduces the features a team can afford to offer.
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ribbon

Helping Businesses Manage Blocked Calls: How SIP 603+ improves transparency in troubleshooting Call Failures

Feb 5, 2026 By Tirthankar Pal In Ribbon
Imagine pulling up to a gas pump, inserting your credit card, and having the display on the pump say “denied”. You call your credit card company, and they say, “Oh, we don’t know, maybe it’s the merchant’s fault, or the card reader is bad…, we can look into it and get back to you in a few weeks.” Most of us would be pretty upset with that response.
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What is the Open Container Initiative?

Feb 5, 2026 By Canonical Ubuntu In Canonical
In this video, we explain the Open Container Initiative (OCI) and how open, vendor-neutral standards make containers portable and interoperable across platforms, tools, and environments. We cover what OCI is, why OCI compliance matters, and how OCI defines the core building blocks of the container ecosystem: container images, runtimes, and distribution.
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harness

Architecting Trust: The Blueprint for a "Golden Standard" Software Supply Chain | Harness Blog

Feb 5, 2026 By Aditya Kashyap In Harness
We’ve all seen it happen. A DevOps initiative starts with high energy, but two years later, you’re left with a sprawl of "fragile agile" pipelines. Every team has built their own bespoke scripts, security checks are inconsistent (or non-existent), and maintaining the system feels like playing whack-a-mole. This is where the industry is shifting from simple DevOps execution to Platform Engineering.
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Komodor

From Blueprint to Production: Building a Kubernetes MCP Server

Feb 5, 2026 By Nir Adler In Komodor
As Large Language Models (LLMs) evolve from simple chatbots into agentic workflows, the need for a standardized way to connect them to external data and infrastructure has become critical. In a recent workshop hosted by Nir Adler, Innovation Engineer at Komodor, we explored how to bridge this gap using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
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harness

Backstage Alternatives: IDP Options for Engineering Leaders | Harness Blog

Feb 5, 2026 By Bri Strozewski In Harness
Backstage alternatives fall into three real choices: build and own a framework, buy a fully managed IDP product, or choose a hybrid path that reduces maintenance but keeps Backstage at the core. The trade-off is not "free vs paid" but engineering headcount, governance maturity, time to value, and how actionable your portal is across CI/CD, IaC, and environments. The best commercial IDPs go beyond catalog and documentation.
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Your Boss Doesn't Understand Your Work (Here's Why)

Feb 5, 2026 By GitKraken In GitKraken
Developer productivity metrics create unique anxiety. If your company rolled out tracking systems like DORA metrics or velocity dashboards, you're probably wondering what these numbers mean and how they'll evaluate your work. At GitKon 2025, we assembled senior engineers from GitHub, Cloudflare, Kong, and GitKraken to discuss "Your Boss is Measuring You, Now What?" The panel included both individual contributors and engineering leaders, creating an honest conversation about measurement from both perspectives.
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