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Opsgenie Is Sunsetting: What to Look for in an Alternative

Apr 9, 2025 By Jessica Abelson In FireHydrant
Atlassian is retiring Opsgenie, and if you're one of the teams relying on it to manage on-call and incidents, you're facing a tough question: Do you make the forced migration to Jira Service Management or Compass, scramble for a lookalike tool — or use this moment to upgrade your entire approach to incident response? If you’re facing that decision, we get it. Changing tools midstream isn’t ideal (to say the least). But it’s also a rare opportunity to take a meaningful step forward.
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Leveraging an IDP for Navigating Staff Changes: Onboarding and Layoffs

Apr 9, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex
Change is constant in engineering organizations. Whether you’re growing quickly and onboarding dozens of engineers—or navigating the difficult process of layoffs—your systems, services, and institutional knowledge don’t pause. That’s where an Internal Developer Portal (IDP) becomes indispensable.
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last9

Comparing ELK, Grafana, and Prometheus for Observability

Apr 9, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Monitoring and observability are cornerstones of modern infrastructure management. Three popular solutions that often come up in this space are the ELK Stack, Grafana, and Prometheus. This comparison breaks down the key differences, use cases, and integration capabilities to help you determine which tool or combination better suits your operational needs.
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Metrics That Matter: Measuring Developer Productivity in the AI Era

Apr 9, 2025 By Rootly In Rootly
In this episode, Ryan McDonald is joined by Mark Quigley, Head of Platform Engineering at Ninety.io, for a conversation that cuts through the noise around developer productivity metrics and AI. Mark dives deep into how teams can measure what matters—without falling into the trap of turning every measure into a target. He shares how tools like Developer NPS, DORA metrics, and balanced scorecards can help teams optimize for both output and well-being—but only when framed with the right intent.
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Incident.io

The timeline to fully automated incident response

Apr 9, 2025 By Ed Dean In Incident.io
We speak to engineering teams every day, and everybody knows AI is the future. Some tell us they’re massively accelerated by Claude, or that they’re rebuilding their product, team and ways of working. Cursor and Lovable have announced they’re building the last piece of software. Should we give in to the vibes? Embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists? The reality is that things will still go wrong. They always do, at least from time to time.
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canonical

SONiC: The open source network operating system for modern data centers

Apr 9, 2025 By Benjamin Ryzman In Canonical
Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) is an open-source network operating system that has revolutionized data center networking. Originating as a Microsoft-led initiative in the Open Compute Project (OCP) in 2016, SONiC has rapidly gained traction among hyperscalers and switch hardware vendors, including Broadcom, Cisco, and NVIDIA. By building its services using containerized microservices, SONiC brings flexibility, scalability, and modularity to network infrastructure.
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