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civo

2026 insights into the Indian cloud market

Jan 21, 2026 By Emma Stewart-Oram In Civo
India is no longer just a fast-growing cloud market; it is becoming a strategically vital one. What was once a race for cost efficiency and global hyperscaler expansion has evolved. Today, India’s cloud landscape is being reshaped by a new reality: the need for AI infrastructure, true data sovereignty, and the ambition to own its digital future. Following the discussion at Civo Navigate India 2025, one thing is clear: the status quo is shifting.
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metricfire

Reducing Alert Noise with Composite Alerts in Hosted Graphite

Jan 21, 2026 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
Traditional alerts are simple by design: if a metric crosses a threshold, fire an alert. While that simplicity makes alerts easy to configure, it also leads to alert noise, because single metrics rarely tell the full story and often trigger during non-actionable conditions. Hosted Graphite Composite Alerts solve this by allowing you to combine multiple alert conditions using logical expressions like AND (&&) and OR (||).
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circleci

Mastering waits and timeouts in Playwright

Jan 21, 2026 By Waweru Mwaura In CircleCI
If you have written any kind of end-to-end tests or UI tests you probably know that the greatest headache to deal with is test flakiness due to browser actions not behaving in the way that you expect them to behave. This flakiness can be a major bottleneck especially in CI/CD pipelines due to constant failures.
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certkit

Certificate permissions with CertKit Applications

Jan 21, 2026 By Todd H. Gardner In CertKit
When you’re managing a handful of certificates, one big list works fine. Add a few dozen more and things get messy. Add multiple teams or projects and you’ve got a problem. Who should have access to the production certificates? What about staging? Does the contractor working on the marketing site really need to see your internal infrastructure? CertKit now supports multiple applications from our roadmap to help you sort this out.
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control plane

Why Cost-Cutting Usually Breaks Your Product (And What to Do Instead)

Jan 21, 2026 By Barak Brudo In Control Plane
Reactive cloud cost-cutting leads to “Infrastructure Atrophy,” sacrificing performance and reliability for short-term savings. The 2026 solution is cloud cost optimization, leveraging scale-to-zero and pay-per-use architectures to eliminate idle waste without compromising product health.
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speedscale

ROI of Digital Twin Testing: Cut Testing Costs by 50%

Jan 20, 2026 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
When engineering leaders review their cloud bills, they often focus on production costs—the infrastructure serving real users, processing real transactions, generating real revenue. But there’s a shadow cost lurking in every cloud environment that often goes unnoticed until it becomes painful: non-production infrastructure.
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speedscale

Digital Twins Gone Wild: My Unexpected AI Doppelgänger

Jan 20, 2026 By Alan Mon In Speedscale
I recently tried using AI to create a digital twin of myself. I uploaded a photo, expecting a futuristic, slightly improved version of me... and what did I get in return? A picture of Kim Jong Un. Clearly, AI has a sense of humor-or a very different definition of "twin." Forget Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. Digital Twins 2-Now Starring My AI Doppelgänger From Speedscale's perspective, a digital twin is built from real production traffic, continuously updated, and executable in your test and CI/CD environments.
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