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Civo Navigate London 2025: Sovereignty & AI Highlights

We’re back from Civo Navigate London! Our seventh in‑person conference where sovereignty meets AI. Attendees walked away with fresh workshops, bold talks on data sovereignty, and hard‑won insights on how the cloud must evolve. Real‑world AI demos, cutting‑edge AI talks and authentic collaborations proved the cloud’s future is now. Conversations that turned into collaborations, governments asking the hard questions and developers swapping playbooks. The cloud isn’t a monolithic wall; it’s a thriving community that builds, learns, and defies the status‑quo.

Kubernetes For AI: The CTO's Guide

Kubernetes began as a tool to help teams keep thousands of microservices running without falling apart. It gave them a way to schedule workloads, recover from failures, and scale services without constant firefighting. Now, AI has brought back the same chaos, only magnified. Training jobs sprawl across GPUs. Inference traffic spikes without warning. Pipelines stretch across clusters, clouds, and compliance boundaries. Left unchecked, it can break both your workload and cloud budget.

The AI Productivity Paradox-and How We're Solving It

There’s a striking disconnect happening in software development right now. According to the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 84% of developers are using or planning to use AI tools in their workflows. Over half of professional developers are using AI daily. The adoption is real, it’s fast, and it’s accelerating.

Managing Freelance DevOps Work in 2025: Smarter Ways to Stay Online and Paid

Staying online is only half the battle for a freelance DevOps engineer. Keeping bills paid when clients delay payments or projects vanish overnight is the other. Unlike salaried tech roles, freelancers operate in a world where uptime isn't just for servers - it's survival strategy. When systems break, your name is on the line. But when the payment doesn't hit the account for weeks, nobody's there to reboot your budget.
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Mitmproxy vs Proxymock: Replaying Traffic for Realistic API Testing

Replaying traffic is a core tool in your toolbox when you need to reproduce a tricky bug or validate how your app behaves. Traffic replay is especially valuable for testing complex software applications that rely on APIs and microservices, where integration and functionality must be thoroughly validated.

Part 1: Building a Production-Grade Traffic Capture and Replay System

A few years ago I was on call during the Super Bowl. At the time I was working for an observability vendor and one of our customers had an outage caused by a surge in user traffic. But our monitoring system didn’t have enough data to know what went wrong and I sat on a call for 2 hours painfully listening to them spinning up more servers and trying to catch up with the user load.