Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The latest News and Information on DevOps, CI/CD, Automation and related technologies.

Release v2.9: OTEL Logs, Database Functions, SNMP Functions and more.

What’s New in Netdata v2.9 In this video, we walk through the biggest updates in Netdata v2.9, including: Top Tab Database Functions to analyze slow queries and performance bottlenecks without logging into your database SNMP Network Interfaces Function for real-time visibility into network interfaces Microsoft SQL Server Collector with richer MSSQL metrics OpenTelemetry Logs Ingestion to correlate logs and metrics in one place.

Platform Engineering 101: What It Is, How It Differs from SRE and DevOps, & Why It Matters for Incident Response

Platform engineering has emerged as a response to the growing complexity of modern software delivery. As organizations adopt Kubernetes, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code, they are creating dedicated teams responsible for building and operating the internal platforms that power developer workflows.

AI-Driven Automated Testing for Oracle Applications

As enterprises continue to change rapidly, businesses depend on Oracle-based ecosystems to track their finances, supply chains, HR, and customer operations. With the increase of digital transformation in companies, these environments continue to become more complex. As a result, manual testing is no longer enough for maintaining pace with ongoing updates, integrations and customizations that occur within an organization's systems. This is where AI-powered automated testing for Oracle applications revolutionizes how quality assurance is approached.

Don't Panic: A Low-Risk Strategy for Ingress NGINX Retirement

The Ingress NGINX project is winding down. For many organizations, this means planning a migration for critical infrastructure. While the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller is the natural successor for these workloads, a "rip and replace" strategy isn’t always viable. You might have complex configurations, customized annotations, or deployment freezes that make a sudden switch risky. There's a lower-risk path: Place HAProxy in front of your existing Ingress NGINX deployment.

AI Merge Conflict Resolution + Commit Messages in GitKraken Desktop

AI-assisted merge conflict resolution is changing how developers handle Git workflows. Watch GitKraken Ambassador Kevin Bost demonstrate AI-powered features that eliminate merge conflict dread, clean up messy commit history, and generate contextual commit messages in seconds.

Simultaneous multi-cloud deployment to AWS and GCP with CircleCI

AWS recently experienced a significant outage. The outage took down major services, including parts of McDonald’s mobile ordering system, some Netflix features, and many other applications that relied solely on AWS infrastructure. This event perfectly illustrates why relying on just one cloud platform can be risky.

Self-Driving Data Highways: Realizing the Strategic Advantages of Autonomous IP Optical Networks at OFC26

In the telecom industry, leaders are under pressure to deliver more—more capacity, more agility, more reliability—while managing rising complexity with fewer resources. The network is the circulatory system of the modern telco, yet it’s still often operated like a patchwork of manual roads, each requiring constant human intervention. This model worked when traffic was predictable and growth was linear.