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How to test the reliability of a Point of Sale (POS) system

Point of Sale (POS) systems are the backbone of any retail store. A single outage can cost retail companies thousands of dollars each minute in lost sales, and even more if the outage happens during peak hours. If the outage goes on too long, it can cause even more costly damage as customers abandon carts and turn to competitors. In an industry where customer loyalty is worth its weight in gold, that brand damage can end up even more costly than the initial lost sales.

Ari Stowe, Resolve COO and Carla Ely of Grokstream speak at Innovate Americas Dallas

At Innovate Americas Dallas, Ari Stowe, Resolve COO and Carla Ely, Grokstream Channel Development Manager joined industry leaders to discuss how AIOps and agentic automation are reshaping IT operations for a Zero Ticket future. In this dynamic session, they explored how AI-driven event correlation, predictive remediation, and autonomous workflows are transforming how enterprises detect, diagnose, and resolve issues before they ever become tickets.

Data Sovereignty in the Age of AI: A Conversation with Kelsey Hightower and Mark Boost

Join Kelsey Hightower and Mark Boost at Civo Navigate London as they discuss sovereignty in the context of AI and cloud computing. The conversation highlights the need for a more nuanced approach to cloud computing, one that balances the benefits of public cloud with the need for control and sovereignty. The discussion emphasizes the importance of open protocols and the role of the community in driving innovation, and notes that the adoption of AI workloads is driving a shift towards more decentralized and sovereign cloud architectures.

Protecting Production from a VP

The rise of AI coding assistants means new "developers" in many organizations. Your safety nets (and on ramps) need to be built with citizen developers in mind. Innovation is moving faster than ever. That’s great. With AI code generation accelerating professional developers and the rise of "citizen developers" thanks to tools like vibe-coding, we’re seeing more code written today than ever before.

Simplify Infrastructure Management with Puppet AI Infra Assistant #puppet #aiops #itautomation

Effortlessly access vital infrastructure data with Puppet Infra Assistant. Ask questions in natural language and get instant, contextual answers - no Puppet expertise required. Streamline operations, eliminate bottlenecks, and empower your team with self-service insights.

IaC is Great, But Have You Met IaCM?

This blog highlights the critical role of Infrastructure as Code Management (IaCM) in enhancing IaC practices, ensuring security, compliance, and efficiency in managing complex infrastructure at scale. ‍ Managing infrastructure efficiently and reliably is more critical than ever. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has emerged as a key practice, enabling teams to define, deploy, and manage infrastructure using code.

AI at Scale: Developer Productivity & Engineering Excellence w/ Adeeb Valiulla | ShipTalk S4E4

How do you measure engineering excellence in the age of AI? In this ShipTalk episode, Dewan Ahmed talks with Adeeb Valiulla, leader of Developer Productivity & Efficiency at Harness, about redefining productivity beyond dashboards and vanity metrics.

Troubleshoot Faster with the New Log Search and Filtering in Qovery Observe

Following the launch of Qovery Observe, we’re progressively adding new capabilities to help you better monitor, debug, and understand your applications. Today, we’re excited to announce a major improvement to the Logs experience: you can now search and filter directly within your application logs.

Your "Technical Debt" is a LIE! Meet QA Debt.

The REAL reason your system WILL FAIL. We all talk about technical debt, but QA Debt is the silent killer costing companies millions. It's the accumulation of skipped regression checks, outdated test suites, and ignored production data. The result? Unpredictable, catastrophic outages that can sink your business (and your career!). Learn how to identify and pay down your QA Debt before it's too late. It's not about testing more it's about testing SMARTER.

Tech Talk #10 Building a VictoriaMetrics PaaS: Setting up Metrics, Logs, and Traces

From Blueprint to Reality This episode is designed to be a practical, step-by-step guide. We will show you how to leverage the VictoriaMetrics Kubernetes Stack—our "easier button"—to simplify the deployment process and get your components running quickly.